Independent's Hamish Mcrae wrong again!

The article defending civil service salaries is here. My response, which the new comment facility of that newspaper refuses to accept, would have been posted as follows:

I regret that with the present debt crisis this attitude is unsustainable. The deficit and near bankrupt condition of the nation with the State failing at almost every interface with the general public and a grossly overstaffed civil service those at its head should necessarily be the first to bear the brunt of the earliest cuts.

To carry the country along with all the other austerity to come, the pensions of the retired mandarins and ex-MPs would ideally be single out to receive the first and deepest cuts. Unhappily this will of course never occur, thus the nation will be condemned to continuing and ever growing impoverishment.