The strikes next week...

[max_tranmere]

I saw on the news today that they reckon the queues at airports will be so long they will have to hold people on planes for many hours because there will be no room left for them to queue in the airports or outside. It is going to be a memorable day to say the least...

[Jonone]

BBC website report is 'Strike threatens Heathrow chaos'. The strikers would say there's an alternative headline 'Pension reform threatens old age chaos' however their view will not be given priority.

[wayne]

Classic tory politics of greed and envy, portray public sector workers as greedy for wanting to keep their pensions while everyone else acts out of jealousy because they let themselves get shafted.

At lesast we will win the olmpic event of racing to the bottom.

[BeestonBoy]

wayne wrote:

> Classic tory politics of greed and envy, portray public sector
> workers as greedy for wanting to keep their pensions while
> everyone else acts out of jealousy because they let themselves
> get shafted.


Erm nothing to do with Tory politics old boy....you are fucking greedy. End of!!

[Gusset Sniffer]

Praying for time.



These are the days of the open hand
They will not be the last
Look around now

These are the days of the beggars and the choosers
This is the year of the hungry man
Whose place is in the past
Hand in hand with ignorance and legitimate excuses

The rich declare themselves poor
And most of us are not sure
If we have too much but we?ll take our chances
?Cause God stopped keeping score

I guess somewhere along the way
He must have let us all out to play
And turned his back
And all God?s children
Crept out the back door
And its hard to love
Theres so much to hate
Hanging onto hope
When there is no hope to speak of
And the wounded skies above
Say its much too late
Oh maybe we should all be praying for time


This is the year of the empty hand
Oh you hold onto what you can
And charity is a coat you wear twice a year

These are the days of the guilty man
The television takes a stand
And you find that what was over there
Is over here
So you scream from behind your door
Say whats mine is mine and not yours
I may have too much
But I?ll take my chances cause God stopped keeping score
And you?ll cling to the things they sold you
Did you cover your eyes when they told you
That he cant come back
?Cause he has no children
to come back for

And its hard to love when theres so much to hate
And hanging onto hope
When there is no hope to speak of
And the wounded skies above
Say its much, much too late
Mm, well maybe we should all be praying for time

[number 6]

Good for the workers taking a stand, why should the low paid bear the brunt the whole time.

[wayne]

Im not a public sector employee and never have been. So my post appears to have been proven.

[spider]

David Cameron leads a government of the rich, for the rich and by the rich.

And the poor can fuck-off.

[David Johnson]

Interesting that Dozy Dave is calling the strikes irresponsible and that they will cost the country ?500 million in lost economic output etc.

I can't remember him stating these costs at the time when he announced a one day public holiday for everyone on Prince William's wedding day.

Obviously in his mind,

Day off to gawk at royalty - very good reason for hitting output.

Day off to exercise a democratic right to strike in protest at having to work longer, pay more money and receive less pension at a time when you have had real terms pay cuts for a number of years and live in fear of losing your job - very bad reason for hitting output.

Cheers
D

[jimslip]

"Day off to exercise a democratic right to strike in protest at having to work longer, pay more money and receive less pension at a time when you have had real terms pay cuts for a number of years and live in fear of losing your job - very bad reason for hitting output."

Totally agree, but lets not forget all the poor bastards in the private sector, you know the one's in their company cars on the M25 every morning, desperately trying to keep their sales figures up and keep the roofs over their heads. Those too scared to strike, because they'll be thrown out of their jobs. Those that have had their pensions plundered by their crooked company bosses or seen their pensions dwindle to nothing thanks to the crisis. No bottomless public purse to bail these people out is there?

Of course no one gives a toss for the millions of these unfortunates. These people have also faced, "Real term pay cuts for a number of years", but as far as the State is concerned they are expendable.

For New Labour and the Tories these millions are merely cash cows to feed the top heavy leviathan that is the welfare state. In our society it is the private sector workers who are the dispossessed, the victims. Both New Labour and the Tories tacitly support the abuse of our tax system by the rich, both parties blubber, bleat and nurture the public sector. Both parties have made public sector fat cats very rich at the expense of the rest of us who pay tax.

Meanwhile the guy on the M25 just keeps getting screwed and when he's old he'll be lucky to afford to keep a single bar electric fire to keep himself warm. However, what may warm the cockles of his heart, will be the knowledge that his back breaking working life has ensured that all the public sector workers will have plenty of wonga to throw about whilst they live it up on their final salary pensions!