Strikes

[Hilly]

Pay rises are averaging 7% across the private sector. That’s what Mick Lynch is asking for. The Tory man said the governments only lever to keep a lid on inflation in the labour market was to screw public sector workers into the ground. This is after a decade of ridiculously low interest rates, money for old rope schemes and nail outs and pumping up the housing market and neglect of energy and food supplies. Well it’s not all Mick Lynchs fault.

Because so many work public sector !! Screw them stops them
Spending fixes inflation , shouldnt have got everyone working for
The government !! Scotland every one works for government one way or other .

 

[unlacedgecko]

A friend organises casual labour to work on farms, packers, factories etc. He is having a difficult time as a lot of the guys only want to work 3 or 4 days a week now, and occasionally only one, plus he’s plagued with no-shows.

He was in town one day and met a chap who’d called in sick that morning walking down the high street with bags of shopping. When he collared the chap, he was told he couldn’t work that day as it was food bank day and he’d been up to collect his “shopping”.

The crafty beggars will work a short week then head up the food bank waving their payslip for a days work that week and make on that’s all they earn, then come away with food for the week.

Is it a form of wealth redistribution? Feels like old fashioned taking the pee.

And how many times have workers turned up to a job site only to be told there's no requirement for them today, and sent home without pay?

Employment agencies are a necessary evil. But they show absolutely zero loyalty to their workers and treat them as a disposable commodity. Workers who don't dance immediately to the tune of the recruiter are punished by "zeroing down", having their offered hours reduced the next week.

With such a variable income how are workers expected to budget or plan? As we approach full employment, agencies are chasing less and less staff, and even less reliable staff. Maybe they will have to increase their pay and improve conditions?

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Bloody good idea imo , ive only seen little of him but comes over to me straight talkimg
Truthfull type im warming
To a union man ffs cant belive it

I feel the same but I could still never vote labour

 

[unlacedgecko]

Because so many work public sector !! Screw them stops them
Spending fixes inflation , shouldnt have got everyone working for
The government !! Scotland every one works for government one way or other .

The public sector should be as small as possible.

 

[unlacedgecko]

The drivers are not on strike , the bog cleaners are .

It's just a funny meme.

 

[unlacedgecko]

I feel the same but I could still never vote labour

I feel politically homeless.

 

[Hindsight]

The drivers are not on strike , the bog cleaners are .

Don't need to - bog cleaners doing the task for them. Drivers will simply ask for same. And then if not get it they will come out in the second round of national rail strikes. We have seen this all before in the 70s. The unions will drive the country into financial crisis. IMF here we come. Sterling already heading downwards. Hey ho.

 

[Hilly]

Don't need to - bog cleaners doing the task for them. Drivers will simply ask for same. And then if not get it they will come out in the second round of national rail strikes. We have seen this all before in the 70s. The unions will drive the country into financial crisis. IMF here we come. Sterling already heading downwards. Hey ho.

Yes, and no Mrs T this time .

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

I feel politically homeless.

I am in "red wall" seat which had never been anything other than Labour until the last election. The lass that won it for the Tories is from an ordinary background and works hard in the constituency. She also voted against Johnston in the confidence vote.

I feel sorry that at the moment I couldn't vote for her because of the incompetence of the government and other Tory MPs. I would vote LibDem because they are the only ones talking a bit of sense about agriculture

 

[roscoe erf]

In the 1970's people tightened their belts and got on with it, I'm not saying that there arent people who are really hard up but when you see newsxarticles about food banks you dont see people who look like they are starving very often well over weight, dressed well etc, like all things poverty is relative

not one i'm inviting round for xmas

 

[Hilly]

I feel politically homeless.

I feel the very same. The caliber of all politicians of all colours is rock bottom imo . I now refuse to vote at all , they all desperate for us to vote and i feel only fight back is not humor any of them with a vote

 

[roscoe erf]

Can say what you like about the striking railway guys, but Mick Lynch has got the number of the media gobshites and politician tossers. And no worrying about offending “corporate partners”.

That’s how you head up a union whose first priority is it’s members.

journalists make you cringe watching that

 

[zero]

Politicians are like nappies. They want changing regularly and for the same reasons!

 

[Hindsight]

Yes, and no Mrs T this time .

Starmer this time from all accounts reading this mornings papers who are saying the Tories are finished! The country usually relies on the Tories being elected following a Labour government overspending. This time round in 2023/24 following general election could well be a Labour government inheriting a overspent country. That will be fun to watch! Or even better a coalition government comprising Labour/SNP (or Lib Dems). I watch with interest as that awful man Blackford is made Chancellor!!

 

[Hindsight]

I feel the very same. The caliber of all politicians of all colours is rock bottom imo . I now refuse to vote at all , they all desperate for us to vote and i feel only fight back is not humor any of them with a vote

Ken Clarke. Listen to home. Man of sense. Man of reason. Thus no one listens to him nor wants to action his advice.

 

[Hilly]

Ken Clarke. Listen to home. Man of sense. Man of reason. Thus no one listens to him nor wants to action his advice.

Hes to old , yoof want nothing with old people .

 

[Hilly]

Starmer this time from all accounts reading this mornings papers who are saying the Tories are finished! The country usually relies on the Tories being elected following a Labour government overspending. This time round in 2023/24 following general election could well be a Labour government inheriting a overspent country. That will be fun to watch! Or even better a coalition government comprising Labour/SNP (or Lib Dems). I watch with interest as that awful man Blackford is made Chancellor!!

The torys are labour in disguise as new labour were almost torys in disguise , labour is lost in the wilderness now Starmer is no leader but neither is BJ , what do you call the the other party again ….. lib dem … whos their leader ?? Who are they ?

 

[Hindsight]

Hes to old , yoof want nothing with old people .

His popularity with parts of the electorate was not the point of my reply to your post. I was making a comment that Clarke says a lot of very sensible things. But those things are not going to be adopted. Hey ho. IMF here we come.

 

[Hindsight]

The torys are labour in disguise as new labour were almost torys in disguise , labour is lost in the wilderness now Starmer is no leader but neither is BJ , what do you call the the other party again ….. lib dem … whos their leader ?? Who are they ?

The leadership is irrelevant. Just totems. Will always be buffeted by events.

 

[ollie989898]

Ken Clarke. Listen to home. Man of sense. Man of reason. Thus no one listens to him nor wants to action his advice.

Clarke had some good ideas, but his ideas on Europe never mirrored the reality.