Just some more info about the financial study the TUC have commissioned.
Well, there's a turn up for the books...
Bob Crowe (RMT) being praised by Jon Gaunt this morning on Sky News paper review for suggesting civil disobedience!!
Sit downs on motorways. A wave of crippling strikes, Spiderman climbing the walls of Buck House.
Those are just a few of the ways union leader Bob Crow suggests for dealing with the economic black hole his Labour pals landed us in.
Let's hope this weeks TUC meeting gets the message....There will be misery enough without letting the left-wing crazies loose again!!
I really don't fancy a trip back to the 70s, with power cuts, no bread, sugar, and other essentials caused by constant strike action.
I am in a category that will be amongst the worst effected, my eldest daughter is a single parent, yet I have no fear of these cuts. I still feel much of this is scare mongering and point scoring for their mates in the labour party
Foxy wrote:
old_arse wrote:
s3xyl3xy wrote:
How on earth did they figure his attending such a demo would constitute an act of terrorism?
Boy!!!......What short memories!!!.......Don't you remember some of the antics from the 'authorities' during the national miners strike????.......Regardless of your politics that should have made people aware of the true nature of our 'security forces'!!!
I got quite a few bruises for simply standing in the wrong place.........and was stopped altogether from travelling to Yorkshire and the Midlands.......All within a 'free' state!!
And the 'antics' of some of the flying pickets. Well, some of them were simply travelling thugs looking for a fight and nothing to do with the miner's fight for jobs.
Foxy.........you don't know me......and I admit to some left wing tendencies.....but PLEASE don't label ALL protestors as the media would have you believe!!....YES...there were thugs.....but a small minority!!....MOST of the violence was perpetrated BY the 'security foeces'........and, since I was actually there to witness it......I think I'm in a better position to judge!
I'll leave it at that as I have NO intention of diverting the original thread
Not even room for a quip! :sad:
There is a vast difference between the situation in the 1970s and what is happening now.
Most of the walkouts then were around pay and conditions of staff, so there was little public sympathy.
This time it is about huge cuts to services.
Cuts which could see things that people are used to receiving day in, day out - and that they value - completely wiped out.
In your local area, it is things such as:
Libraries
Leisure centres
Events
Parks and gardens
Highways
Medical centres
Dentists
Schools
Sure Start
After school clubs
Voluntary organisations
Social care
So far, it hasn't really dawned on the public what is going to happen.
Instead, they have been tut-tutting at the slew of stories about how apparently bloated, wasteful and overpaid the public sector is.
They've read shock horror headlines about skilled Chief Executive and Directors responsible for thousands of staff and a budget of hundreds of millions of pounds having the audacity to earn more than the PM.
And they've talked in pubs up and down the land about the man with nine kids who's earning £30k on the dole, and how the welfare budget can be slashed by billions because it must mean most claimants are on the fiddle.
But it is slowly dawning on ministers that there isn't that much excess to cut.
That some quangos do actually perform a useful function.
That councils employ far fewer people than they used to.
That 95 pence in every pound spent on the NHS goes on medical treatment and equipment and just five pence on management.
But far more worrying than this is the fact that people are contradictory.
They say they don't mind cuts.
In truth, they mean they don't mind cuts that don't affect them.
Make no mistake, there is going to be a battle royale between ministers as they fight to prevent their budgets from being completely decimated.
Andrew Rawnsley wrote yesterday that some ministers fear lynch mobs when the scale of what is going to happen finally dawns on Joe Public.
Polling shows that people think the emergency budget was the extent of the cuts.
In truth, it was only the start.
Just so that I am clear on what is happening here?.............
The Unions fight an election and yet fail to get their choice of government elected because the rest of the country see's the need for change. Now that the scale of the previous governments disastrous policies which failed miserably by "spending" have been exposed, the new government is faced with the reality of making very harsh cuts. The Union bosses see an opportunity to take on a weak government and re-instate themselves as the force that they once were in the 1970's when they all but destroyed the UK manufacturing industry.
If this is the case then I see clearly that the Union bosses who are paid 6 figure salaries and who will not lose a penny will probably revell in the chance to take on the government and bring the country to its knees by calling ridiculous and iappropriate strikes in the name of the public sector workforce.
Bollocks - wake up and smell the coffee - when the going gets tough the tough get going and we are in very tough times.
Am I the only one who's willing to consider that this global financial fiasco has been deliberately engineered??
Following the logic that Trades Union leaders are hell bent on promoting their own hidden agendas at the expense of their memberships and the more general community.......is it TOO big a leap to believe that such economic chaos can be engineered by the global powers......very few of whom are identifiable as individuals??
It's only relatively recently I've become interested in anti-capitalism........so I have a lot to learn yet on the subject but my experience of 'government interest' and 'national interest' leads me to be extremely sceptical that the crisis could have reached the point it did without major warnings being heard for many years beforehand.
When you take the international scale of things into account.......it makes for sobering thoughts.......just WHO could plot such a disaster.......and to what ends???......economic or political??
Before you dismiss the thought......consider how governments throughout the world routinely misdirect and misinform their populaces, often for their own agendas.......more often because THEIR strings are being pulled by economic powerhouses within the financial and business sectors.
Sobered ME up anyway!!!!.........and I was getty nicely pissed!! :twisted:
