It is difficult to envisage wages taking off when the public sector is shedding jobs and facing a two-year pay freeze and there are 2.5m people unemployed, close to 8% of the Labour force.

当公共部门正在减少工作岗位，面临两年的工资冻结，并有占劳动总量接近8%的250万人失业的时候，正视工资减少是困难的。

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I think Hell would freeze over 10 times before there were even a chance. It would be like seeing Nintendo develop a Mario game for the PSP!

我想在他们有这个机会之前，地狱会冻结10次，就好像马里奥的游戏出现在PS P的平台上面一样！

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