Yer well they shafted my income that many times now I've given up hope so I decided to jump straight to the bottom whilst everyone else fights their way there. Figured early bird catches the worm and all that.
30/11 Strikes.
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Yer well they shafted my income that many times now I've given up hope so I decided to jump straight to the bottom whilst everyone else fights their way there. Figured early bird catches the worm and all that.
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I suspect that will change, along with a raft of other measures against Unions.
Go private then.
If people don't strike, and CONTINUE to strike to show these CONS they mean business, this government will have sold the NHS off by the time their term ends and your poor grandma won't have an nhs to go to
Serious question.......
do you think Labour under brown would have done better or anything different ? Do you thinks labours reckless borrow to spend and pay back later approach was sound fiscal policy. Was Gordon Brown the chancellor who ended boom and bust or did he simply fool us all ?
I'd wager Labour would have still been required to make cuts to bring the countries books back in order, then they would have simply taxed the 'squeezed middle' a lot more to keep the 'benefit voters' happy and see them through another term.
For all we know we could already have been knocking at the door of the IMF again asking for a rescue package ? who knows.
Thing is, I was quite supportive of them, however their tactics are slowly eroding any sympathy I have tbh.
Just FYI, I'm a full supporter of PR. The issue of unhappiness with the make up of the current government, however, is unrelated to PR. The period from 1997 -2010 provides a much better study of the massive flaws of FPTP, especially when combined with gerrymandering.
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Yes, heaven forbid that the aim of a strike is to cause disruption
Maybe they should all sit around after school singning songs about how displeased they are instead.
Yes me too - like I say I have full empathy however I know my wife is not striking and I personally would not but each to their own and all that.
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Hold the phones.
And what truth would that be. We don't have an endles pot of money and the liability defects need to be reduced.
Yes, heaven forbid that the aim of a strike is to cause disruption
Maybe they should all sit around after school singning songs about how displeased they are instead.
Maybe we should stop protecting the ability to withdraw labour if it is going to be used as a means to subvert the democratic process?
Perhaps a reading of the article by Len McClusky in the Guardian today will shed more light on the real purpose of the strikes in the eyes of the union leadership?
why wouldn't you answer unless you were trying to be deliberately misleading or awkward ? It doesn't help to garner public support if you start hacking off the general public in this way. Most people whilst inconvenienced would probably not be as bothered, however pull stunts like Castiel described and you can pretty much forget about public support and empathy.
Your posts certainly indicate otherwise.
You say that, but Jeremy Clarkson raised a valid point in The Sun on Saturday about protest songs doing more for the cause than actual protests.
GOOD question. Brown has strongly said that he wouldn't cut public spending to cover the deficit, and in this sentiment he would have been correct. The deficit has GROWN massively under the tories, AND we have all this public discontent, broken society and flatlining industry. Scandinavia and much of mainland Europe has increased public spending and come off better for doing so, because public spending stmulates the economy far better than giving tax cuts to the rich!
The financial collapse was not caused by any one government, it was caused by a runaway american style banking system spreading to europe and being adopted on the premise that 'if we don't follow the americans we will get behind'.
Countries which did not allow their banks to merge the savings and investment arms (doing away with the Glas-Stiegel act) have continued to flourish - I live in Denmark and believe me there is NO hint of recession here
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Because a strike SHOULD be disruptive - giving advance notice to your employer of your intentions enables them to make alternative arrangements.
Those alternative arrangements reduce the impact of the strike and hence it's effective bargaining power.
Cmon people, stop being so naive and use your noggin' a bit!