You are right there is no parallel with a civil servant’s gold plated indexed pension with gold plated pension benefits, and civil servant’s severance payment when they willingly decide to retire.   Their is also no parallel to  MPs pension granted after a few year of hard hard work sitting in the House of Commons .....these are benefits tbe majority of small business owners could only dream of.....and let’s not go to the villa in the south of France held in my private corporation.