General Strike

[AtW]

It's because most in the public sector believe that the deficit is entirely and completely caused by the bankers - therefore they are having to pay for the bankers mistakes.

Well, to be fair recent big jump in deficit was due to bankers bailout.

[centurian]

Well, to be fair recent big jump in deficit was due to bankers bailout.

Most certainly true. But the public sector think that all the deficit is down to the bailout.

The problem is that the numbers have become so big, that people have become numb to them. Labour's promise to "halve the deficit in four years" sounded really impressive - and a lot of people bought into it - only because people don't compute that half of "effing-huge" still leaves you with "huge"

[d000hg]

The nation does not have the stomach for a national strike

Agree. People will not get behind the workers for a minute once the media decides to turn on them.

Will anybody notice that the public sector is on strike ?

If bins aren't collected, that's pretty powerful. What about if the people at the JobCentre go on strike... suddenly "the poor can't get the money they need to survive".

[Alf W]

I'm looking forward to this and seeing the Unions stick one on the Tories and the Corporate Fat Cats again. It's disgusting to target the sick, the unfortunate and the low paid to bail out your Eton/Harrow mates in Investment Banking. Hopefully Thatcher will live to see her anti-union / anti-society policies finally smashed.

I'd like to take George Osborne's silver spoon out of his mouth and shove it firmly up his ar$e!

Now, where that sack of rocks I had left over from the poll tax riots?

[AtW]

I'm looking forward to this and seeing the Unions stick one on the Tories and the Corporate Fat Cats again. It's disgusting to target the sick, the unfortunate and the low paid to bail out your Eton/Harrow mates in Investment Banking. Hopefully Thatcher will live to see her anti-union / anti-society policies finally smashed.

I'd like to take George Osborne's silver spoon out of his mouth and shove it firmly up his ar$e!

Now, where that sack of rocks I had left over from the poll tax riots?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I preferred the old Luddites.

Me too. If you spend a bit of time reading around the history of that time, you find that the Luddites were facing starvation after having trained for years to develop a skill and bound to an employer they were, (almost overnight) thrown out of work with no chance of finding an alternative. Under the circumstances it isn't a surprise that they acted as they did. History seems to have rewritten all this and now the term is bandied about by ignorant people as one of abuse.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Well, to be fair recent big jump in deficit was due to bankers bailout.

Sminki

[Moscow Mule]

Bob Crow is a workshy ****. And so is Derek thingamyjig, but not as big a **** as Crow.

[northernladuk]

Bob Crow is a workshy ****. And so is Derek thingamyjig, but not as big a **** as Crow.

Heard a really interesting debate on Radio 4 with Bob Crow invovled and then a kind of wash up by the presenters afterwards and was horrified to find a tube driver makes £40k a year which was way over the rate for work of this level in the rest of the rail network and in any other industry at similar skill set. The one and only reason for this is Bob Crow blackmailing everyone with threats of strikes. There is no mediation, no give and take, just outright abuse of his postion knowing full well the disruption he can cuase and how much it costs the city. It was quite shocking. Listening to the guy and what he does he just appears to have lost the plot and gone power mad.

[AtW]

a tube driver makes £40k a year

I would not say that it is a massive amount to live in London.

These days UAVs are flown by people thousands of miles away - there is no reason why those trains can't be driven either automatically or by people keeping an eye on a few monitors.