I was sitting with my wife in our local supermarket café this morning having our Sunday cuppa and there was a couple sitting at the table next to us. They looked like a couple who had just reached pension age and the lady was reading a Sunday newspaper, whose headline was on the subject of how MPs are claiming an average of £6,000 per annum in expenses for energy costs in their second homes. I know this because the lady drew her partner's attention to it and then made the comment that "do you know this, our politicians today are simply scum." I wanted to shake this lady's hand.
As readers of this blog will know, I want people to think carefully about the dominant ideology in this country, and I want them to see if they can agree with me that it is profoundly sick. Britain is a sick society that blames the victims of governmental crimes and agrees with the perpetrators. For example, the government has taken the fire-fighters to task and condemned their fight to protect their terms and conditions and gullible Joe Public nods his head sagely. Why? Because fire-fighters are waged workers, and waged workers should be grateful for whatever their masters give them and stop whingeing and complaining. I do not use the word masters lightly, because that is how we are supposed to view them. They are our betters and we should know our place.
I listened to the pensions minister on the radio and his case was based on the fact that, should a fire-fighter serve a full term of service and retire at 55 he/she would receive a pension of £19,000 which, when he/she qualified for their state pension would take them up to £25.000 per annum and this was not fair. He argued that this was far more than a worker could receive on a private sector pension and so therefore the fire service would have to work till at least aged 60 to balance the public with the private. I want anyone out there with even a scintilla of intelligence to consider that position. In this person's opinion, it is not that private pensions are too low, but that public pensions are too high, and if there is to be any equity, it has to be downwards. This is from a government that granted the man who destroyed the Royal Bank of Scotland and was one of the architects of the financial crisis a pension of over £900,000 a year, and who just rewarded themselves with an 11% rise in their salary. Now, MPs are public sector workers, but under this government the public sector are entering their fourth year of a wage freeze, during which time food has risen by an average of 46%.
On another full frontal attack on working people, the press and the government have been in full war mode about the workers at Grangemouth protesting outside of a manager's home. Now, these workers weren't rioting, but it was Martin Luther King who told us that rioting is the language of the unheard and these workers were protesting about how this management had simply refused to negotiate, or listen to the union case and had conducted themselves by issuing ultimatums. I also trust that you noticed that the Labour Party was fully behind the management and completely hostile to the workers. If you are unheard, or simply ignored, what are you supposed to do?
In modern Britain workers are condemned when they withdraw their labour, regardless of the circumstances or the justice of their cause. Workers are condemned for having a decent wage, for having a pension, for having decent terms and conditions for having holidays, overtime pay or any form of benefit over and above the basic minimum required to keep them alive. Employers are considered to have the right to do whatever they want, whenever they want and no worker dare complain or challenge those assumptions. This has the full support of all Westminster parties and politicians. This is what you are voting for if you vote that we are better together in the coming Independence referendum. You have been warned.
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Doktor Kommirat
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