I wonder if there are any lawyers on income support?

I have to apologise for not having posted for a week now, but I have been on my travels and haven't really had the opportunity.

I have also been pondering the cringing hypocrisy of the British, especially the so-called middle-class who persistently demand that the country is run solely for them and in their interests. We have the spectacle of the legal profession actually coming out on strike because of the cuts to legal aid which threatens their income. I have every sympathy with them and hope that their campaign of resistance is successful, what I cant stand is their selfish whinging and complaining when they have not a morsel of sympathy for anyone else. A gentleman called Nick Armstrong, who is a barrister at the Matrix Chambers law firm told the Independent newspaper that  “The government is imposing ideology under the guise of austerity and stripping away our fundamental protections. It is deeply sinister, and hugely dangerous.”

All I can say to that is, welcome to the real world Nick, I'm glad you've woken from your 30 year sleep. Suddenly, the legal profession have become alarmed at the threats to our human rights. Two things really irritate me about this

First, if those barristers and lawyers had been any other kind of worker, the papers would have been screaming about commie infiltrators, striking traitors holding the country to ransom, disruptors and lazy working class bastards, and the Daily Mail would have called them monsters as they did with the railway workers etc. etc. However, these people are the pillars of the legal establishment, graduates, middle class and respectable so their cause must be a righteous one and they mustn't be criticised. You see, that form of industrial action is not the same as that carried out by the labouring classes as trades unions never strike for genuine reasons, only the respectable workers do that. Working class strikes are just another form of terrorism, they are selfish and greedy, whilst middle class strikers have god on their side, it is self-evident.

Second, although Nick Armstrong hasn't noticed, the government has been imposing ideology under the guise of austerity and stripping away our fundamental protections since 1979, the difference is that it is now the Nick Armstrong's of the world who are at the receiving end. When it was the miners, the steel workers, when it was the trades union members, when it was the unemployed, immigrants, Muslims, the disabled and the disadvantaged, Nick Armstrong and all his middle class legal friends and their families all agreed with it and applauded. I wonder what Mr Armstrong voted in the last election? Indeed I wonder what he thinks about the systematic war against employment rights that has been waged since 1979, about benefit rights, about immigration rights when it is only when his profession is attacked that he wakens from his slumbers. You see, I am confident that I know the answer, which is, that all the rights we have lost in the past 30 years were justified because they were rights taken from the undeserving, from the skivers and the scroungers. He and his fellow legal officers are hardworking, taxpaying, patriotic, not like those working class Johnnies at all. I mean, zero-hours contracts are right and good for such people, they must be, because the legal profession has never once raised their voices in objection to any of the fundamental theft of our rights. However, I mustn't be too hard, a repentant is always welcome.

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