Agenda 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/28/prison-officers-england-and-wales-industrial-action Justice secretary wins injunction to stop prison officers' industrial action A major criticism that many have against previous Labour governments, is the complete failure to address injustices to working people in this country brought about by the grossly unfair anti Trade Union legislation introduced by Conservative governments during the 1980's and 1990's. Additional restrictions introduced by the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, have only compounded an already unjust assortment of legislation, which effectively removes or severely restricts the ability of working people to seek improvements to pay, working conditions or safety for users. These restrictions are reminiscent of the Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800 which criminalised working people from banding together, outlawed Trade Union and collective bargaining and proscribed the right...

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/14958152.Care_workers_sacked_because_they_won_t_agree_to_pay_cut_in_council_company_s__Project_Fear___union_claims/ Care workers sacked because they won't agree to pay cut in council company's 'Project Fear'  Council care staff face sack - because they won't sign a contract for less pay  How times have changed and not for the better. Some years ago, the thought of an employer being able to sack workers and then in the next second, re employing them on reduced pay and worse conditions, would have been dismissed as a fantasy existing only in the darkest recesses in the mind of the most unscrupulous employer, or in the dream world of some extreme right wing conservative politicians and their supporters, who would also welcome a return to sending children up into chimneys. Now, since the days of Thatcher and her compulsion to drive working people into submission and be thankful that they actually have a job, with he...

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/03/jeremy-hunt-offer-junior-doctors-pay-rise Jeremy Hunt offers junior doctors 11% pay rise in bid to end dispute      Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt The usual right wing. this time Tory, confidence trick of where there is a problem with the workers, throw money at them. The Conservatives have historically responded to any dispute involving working people with the reasoning that, "They are stupid enough to believe that we are solving the problem, and enough members of the public will only see the "money on the table" so the old divide and conquer ploy will click in and our problem will go away". Hunt may of course be successful in this duplicitous attempt at bribery and subterfuge of Junior Doctors and elements of the public, but deceipt of politicians will result in further damage to our NHS and misery for patients.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/16/nhs-consultants-given-ultimatum-on-weekend-working NHS consultants given ultimatum on weekend working    The leader             The fiscal "mastermind"                 Destroying the NHS     Leading the war on welfare Leading the assaults on Trade Unions       Hunt oversimplifies (as usual), a very complex matter in order to send an ultimatum from his government department to yet another sector of society. With numerous ultimatums and threats over the past week, there seems to be no part of society which this wretched government is not seeking to declare war on. Fighting a war on two fronts is never a good idea (just ask the Germans), but Cameron, Osborne, Javid and now Hunt are instigating hostilities against ordinary people all around the country.     ...

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/15/labour-leadership-candidates-ideologically-driven-union-crackdown         The biggest crackdown on trade union rights for 30 years                Not content with punishing the sick, disabled and welfare claimants with pernicious cuts to expenditure and services, the rabid right of the Conservative government, now declare war on the Trade Union movement. By attacking ordinary working people the government have laid the seeds of discontent and civil conflict in this country. "They have sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind"    

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/15/trade-unions-conservative-offensive-decades-strikes-labour?CMP=share_btn_fb     Tories launch biggest crackdown on trade unions for 30 years         The Labour party must oppose the continuing assault on ordinary people in this country. Organisation and protests against the excesses of this Conservative government is essential. Should Harriet Harman suggest even partial support for Conservative policies, she is clearly in the wrong party.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-britons-among-worlds-idlest-workers-8057360.html The British are among the world's idlest workers, according to five up-and-coming Tory MP's. Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss, Ignorant, self opinionated bastards. The very essence of why the Tories have and will always be, the enemies of working people (and of the sick, disabled and pensioners) in this country. As long as evil morons such as these five exist and continue to spurt their pernicious venom, the Class war will endure and I for one will continue to oppose them.

Last night (Tuesday 24th July 2012), Conservative MP Dominic Raab said there was growing concern that public sector workers were being called out on the basis of tiny turnouts in strike votes. He said there was a clear case to require unions to secure the support of 50 per cent of balloted members to make industrial action legal. Perhaps if the same logic were applied in the wider real world, this country would be spared the undemocratic insult where a government can be elected to run the country for up to 5 years when only 3 or 4 of all people voting actually vote for them. Speak up Raab and all the rest of the hypocritical morons who utter the same nonsense, how do you reconcile the obvious inconsistency in your reasoning? Dominic Raab is the Conservative MP for Esher and Walton. He entered Parliament at the 2010 general election

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article- An article which demonstrates the depths of obscenity and distortion that media will sink to when demonising working people and those who represent them. It's Torquay not Bermuda. You hypocritical morons of the Daily Mail and many of your "comments" contributors, fail to see the irony of IMF/European leaders/G20/etc having lavish banquets and hot air exchanges in exotic locations at other p eople expense and a guy having a can of beer between seminars. Mail you really are the pits. Print this if you have the nerve. It's also posted on Facebook/Twitter/and my blog so people will read it anyway.

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9171485/Is-Ed-Miliband-for-or-against-a-fuel-crisis.html  The Daily Telegraph, doing what the Daily Telegraph does best. Creating a scaremongering headline to suit its own political agenda, and to divert attention away from the real (and embarrassing) issues. The question is not whether anyone is for or against a fuel crisis. No one in their right mind (except maybe Francis Maude) wishes to see un necessary panic buying, the prospect of empty petrol sta tions, rationing of scarce petrol, essential services starved of fuel and non deliveries of supplies to shops and supermarkets. The question is of course, an industrial dispute between workers and employers which in the end must be resolved between the parties concerned with or without the assistance of ACAS. Certainly the mischievous "assistance" of The Daily Telegraph, Francis Maude, David Cameron and George Osborne is neither helpful nor warranted. The f...

Held-ransom-1-000-tanker-drivers-Petrol-stations-face-closure-half-unions-members-vote-strike.html#comments "Held to ransom by 1,000 tanker drivers." The usual hysterical headlines from at least one part of the media. THE BANKERS AND THE FINANCIAL SPECULATORS CAN AND DO, HOLD THE COUNTRY TO RANSOM TIME AFTER TIME, AND NOBODY SAYS A WORD! AS SOON AS PEOPLE, IN ANY FIELD, TAKE A STAND THE RABID RIGHT COME CRAWLING OUT OF THE WOODWORK WITH THE USUAL "SACK THE WORKERS" RANT.