The pay remit for the UK civil service was for an average pay award of 3.5%. And that’s what most members got. Of course an average covers a multiple of sins and many people didn’t get 3.5% and even if they did, many would have had an unconsolidated award in whole or part.

We know that particularly in DWP and HMRC, AAs and AOs will again be caught by the rise in the minimum wage next year.

Now for the third month in a row, inflation as measured by CPI, has remained at 3.8%.

That means that inflation has overtaken the pay awards of most members, so most of us are worse off than last year.

In other words, yet again, PCS, which means at the moment Left Unity, has failed to make any breakthrough on pay, let alone ensuring that all members are better off after a pay round – the basic duty of any union.

Has this failure triggered a ballot, a union push back, a union campaign – NO.

Left Unity is inert and incapable of winning at pay. They have run the union for decades and have delivered decades of failing living standards. They need to be voted out.

But changing the leadership is not enough – we need to change the union as well.