Aren’t the public sector making up rather a lot of the ‘growing dole queues’? (and they’re not even striking about that… yet!)
Still ‘we’re all in it together’, except, of course the MPs, who’s pensions weren’t included in the last review… for some reason.
No, of course no one wants to strike, but it has to be viewed as a means to an end. The government seem incapable of listening to us proles under normal circumstances, so we’re driven to things that might get their attention.
And all the press is guilty of this, but why is the economy always framed in the context of “families”? I’m a single twenty something, with no children, but I seem to be mysteriously deemed a lesser mortal as a result. Or do recessions not effect me somehow?
Attending a protest march in horsham (consistency of francis maude no less) I was told a story by a lady who was closer to the front of his conservative HQ than me. A woman from maudes office opened the door and was introduced to a Rwandan UNISON delegate. She offered a tactfull pearl of diplomatic wisdom “you’d never be allowed to do this in Rwanda”. After which she shut the door, which all things considered was probably just as well
Just to add I was with my mother, a highly experienced and skilled worker, who helps pinpoint pre school children with special needs and work with them and their families. Front line service, but deemed a “level of beauracracy” by the powers that be. She has worked exceptionally hard and helped so many people. When she felt a bit run down, exhausted, over worked amd criminally under paid, the saving grace she would tell us kids was that at least she’d GET A PENSION.
Er.. Yes
This is, I assume, a reference to ‘Boy’ George Osborne making such a hash of running the economy there’s nothing worth striking for.
DTR: I second that, and here’s why: http://pensionsjustice.org.uk/the-article-the-sun-refused-to-run/
Aren’t the public sector making up rather a lot of the ‘growing dole queues’? (and they’re not even striking about that… yet!)
Still ‘we’re all in it together’, except, of course the MPs, who’s pensions weren’t included in the last review… for some reason.
Someone made a teddy bear an MP? no wonder the country’s in a mess…
No, of course no one wants to strike, but it has to be viewed as a means to an end. The government seem incapable of listening to us proles under normal circumstances, so we’re driven to things that might get their attention.
And all the press is guilty of this, but why is the economy always framed in the context of “families”? I’m a single twenty something, with no children, but I seem to be mysteriously deemed a lesser mortal as a result. Or do recessions not effect me somehow?
Attending a protest march in horsham (consistency of francis maude no less) I was told a story by a lady who was closer to the front of his conservative HQ than me. A woman from maudes office opened the door and was introduced to a Rwandan UNISON delegate. She offered a tactfull pearl of diplomatic wisdom “you’d never be allowed to do this in Rwanda”. After which she shut the door, which all things considered was probably just as well
Just to add I was with my mother, a highly experienced and skilled worker, who helps pinpoint pre school children with special needs and work with them and their families. Front line service, but deemed a “level of beauracracy” by the powers that be. She has worked exceptionally hard and helped so many people. When she felt a bit run down, exhausted, over worked amd criminally under paid, the saving grace she would tell us kids was that at least she’d GET A PENSION.