Author: Richard

I think the government, such as the pathetic incompetent crew in Westminster call themselves, may have misread (not surprising as they seem illiterate in many ways) the public mood to recent union action. Of course the die hard and nearly dead will condemn union action action that delays their hip replacements and doctors appointments, the self employed bigots (who always seem to have time to call radio phone-ons) will bemoan the public service workers that they are too thick to realise that they rely on them. The general public who have suffered under austerity, then the Boris debacle, then austerity again, are sympathetic to the need to pay public sector workers fairly. The self employed with brains also realise that they need customers with money to spend on their products!

The public are also becoming aware of the massive fraud they have been subjected to by this bunch of shysters who call themselves a government.

On twitter recently someone asked what the opposite of ‘Woke” was. My initial response was “Bigot” which I thought was a clever answer. However in retrospect it was wrong. “Woke” people can be “Bigots” too! In America Florida Republican Ron Desantis announced his candidacy for the Presidency by saying that he was so anti-woke that Florida was where wokes come to die. A strange turn of phrase – but this was America!

Hopefully we can see the end to the corruption and privilege of the HoL Labours plan is certainly worthy of debate, and appears on first site to be democratic and reflect the different regions of the country. There are still lots of questions however.

When will the government stop blaming the Unions for strikes? Rail workers being told to work on their rest days and do more overtime seems rather unreasonable from a party whose members go on TV shows for a month and holiday in the Caribbean in term time! Ministers hide in Whitehall whilst stopping deals being done. Yet they make no comments about how the water companies (debt free at privatisation) have racked up nearly £60 billion of debt costing £1.5billion in debt interest. Add this to the average £2.1 billion dividend payments and inflated salaries for executives and only half of our water rates goes into providing our water/sewage and investment. Oh and 70% of profits go abroad. Privatisation or corruption?