Teachers - The source of utter confusion and complete disorder in this poor country.

The hostility towards, and contempt for, ordinary working people in this country has reached a critical level. On Wednesday 26th March, which was yesterday, teachers in England and Wales staged a one day strike. You would have thought the world was going to end by the reaction to this. The news reports were full of people bemoaning the disruption caused by these selfish people and television and radio interviewed an endless supply of parents complaining about the strike. I was in Halifax in Yorkshire, yesterday the 26th, and at 11am I was in a Morrison's supermarket. On the newspaper stand was a paper called the Halifax Courier which announced in large bold type, "Teachers strike causes chaos". However, what was significant was that the word chaos was in letters three inches long that took up the whole breadth of the page, and yes I did measure them. Now this was at 11am on the day of the strike, so this monumental piece of news announcing the chaos caused by the teachers must have been written the previous evening, the day before the strike actually took place.

I was a bit bemused by this headline as I could see no chaos in Morrison's or its surrounding environment, and after wandering around this area of Halifax for about 30 minutes could still not see any sign of any form of disruption to daily life in this grand Yorkshire borough and, fearing that I must be missing something crucial I consulted my Chambers Dictionary and Thesaurus 2000 edition which told me that chaos means complete disorder, utter confusion. This, according to the prophets who published the Halifax Courier a full day before this event took place, was the result of the teachers defending their jobs and their livelihood. I should not need to tell anyone with a scintilla of intelligence that such reporting is not only completely mendacious, but is seriously out of order and betrays a hatred for anyone who works for a living and dares to challenge the terms and conditions they are expected to accept from bullying and dictatorial employers and managers. 

The last time the teachers went on strike, I watched the two most prominent current affairs presenters in the UK (Jon Snow and Jeremy Paxman), on the two most prominent current affairs programmes in the UK (Channel Four News and Newsnight), ask union leaders how they could justify disrupting school pupils education? This is a powerful example of the sick class moral relativism that dominates this sorry nation. In April 2011 all schools in the UK closed for a Royal wedding. No talk of disruption here. This was a celebration. So, closing a school for a royal wedding is good and to be welcomed, but closing it in the defence of people’s livelihoods and their family’s standard of living is bad. Almost all schools in the UK are utilised as polling stations for elections. As a result, schools are regularly closed for local, parliamentary and European elections. That of course is not disruption either, disruption only occurs when teachers close the school for selfish reasons such as attempting to protect their jobs, which is not a justifiable activity.

One of the said commentators asked the union leader if there was ever any justification for disrupting a child’s education? The implication in a loaded question like that is that there is not. The union leader answered in terms of the context of the union’s dispute, but as far as Britain’s ruling class and its political and chattering classes are concerned, a royal wedding or an election is obviously justifiable disruption, but protecting your interests and the long term interests of your profession is obviously not. This anti-strike position is moral blackmail, but as we have just discussed, based on very dodgy morals. As David Hume showed, it is morality based on feeling rather than reason. We feel that as one of the participants in the issue is an adult (the teacher) then it is morally wrong to involve the other participant (the pupil) because that participant is a child. Any rational look at the problem may well show that the action by the adult may be in the child’s best interest in both the short and the long term, but that is never addressed because our affective interests take control of our thinking and rationality goes out the window. We must ask the question, if the commentator was correct and it is morally and socially indefensible for teachers to go on strike, what are the teachers to do? Are they simply to accept whatever employers and the government wish to do to them and lay foundations of terms and conditions of work that the child will eventually inherit should it enter the teaching profession? What about the children of the families affected by such attacks on their living standards? Are their parents to sit back and do nothing to protect them? I continually warn you that the ruling elite in Britain will not rest until they have removed all working rights and reduced the working people of this country to modern forms of slavery. You have been warned.

 

Your Servant

Doktor Kommirat