Vocal Voices

It looks like we are in for another free for all. Of course there are deserving cases, with many people at the bottom of the ladder struggling to make ends meet. Looking at the list there seem to be quite a number of professionals who haven't had a pay rise for a number of years and who feel very hard done by. Reading in the Daily Mail that barristers have been crying on the picket line makes me want to give up. What is the matter with these spineless people. Are they incapable of battening down the hatches and dealing with life like the rest of us.

Their "Entitlement" was diminished and nobody was listening.

Either the Conservatives get a grip of this or they are finished.
We have rampant inflation and the country just isn't working. Sky high petrol prices, airports in chaos, GP's not seeing patients, rail strikes, bus strikes and we now have barristers, teachers and NHS doctors threatening to strike as well.
It's all very well posing on the world stage about the Ukraine but this country needs sorting out and there doesn't seem to be any plan to do it.

cromwell wrote:We have rampant inflation and the country just isn't working. Sky high petrol prices, airports in chaos, GP's not seeing patients, rail strikes, bus strikes and we now have barristers, teachers and NHS doctors threatening to strike as well.

Then there are also the rumblings from firefighters, the police, university lecturers and others.

Many of these are in what would be described as "middle class" jobs and they are not populated by Militant Tendency or Momentum members.

Rewind to 1978 and you could say exactly the same thing. The country needed sorting out but Labour wasn't about to do what needed to be done. They'd already tried a wage freeze and it was broken by the Unions. Their buddies until it comes down to self interest.

The solution was Maggie. You know crippling austerity, troops running fire stations, teachers out on strike. Yep I remember that "sorting out" really well. Even the Miners got a good shellacking.

Reality was that the UK had been impacted by the inflation caused by two Oil crises and needed a full reboot to get back on its feet. There is nobody on any side who's going to do a full reboot. So this country aint gettting sorted out.

So we blame the haystack and that's it, job done.

Nice.

Solutions on the inside of a toilet roll cardboard.

cromwell wrote:Either the Conservatives get a grip of this or they are finished.
We have rampant inflation and the country just isn't working. Sky high petrol prices, airports in chaos, GP's not seeing patients, rail strikes, bus strikes and we now have barristers, teachers and NHS doctors threatening to strike as well.
It's all very well posing on the world stage about the Ukraine but this country needs sorting out and there doesn't seem to be any plan to do it.

100% agree

And now it's Openrech.

Not just your and my broadband, but those who industries which rely on it for our energy supplies, banking, online orders, etc.

Without it we are screwed, and they know it,

Yup! The big cheese got a 34% increase, but nothing for the plebs, so are they surprised?