I have been attempting to post for several days now but I keep getting distracted. I trust you will be patient with me. If I may continue the narrative on the Tories determination to reduce British workers to a state of modern slavery they have lost no time in announcing an all out war against unions and the strike action. I also must remind you that this is what the English electorate voted for. I told you the other day how they have announced that they are going to repeal the Human Rights Act and today they tell us that they are going to reform employment law. This tells you everything you need to know about the Tories priorities, regardless of all the problems within the UK, or around the world, top of the list is the systematic removal of fundamental human rights. Top of that list are workers, workers are to have no rights and the campaign to persistently remove them until they are completely gone will be pursued relentlessly.
Under this Conservative government core public sector workers in health, education, transport and fire services will be unable to go on strike without the support of 40 per cent of those entitled to vote.
The Conservatives would also lift a ban on the use of agency workers during industrial action, enabling, for example, schools to draft in thousands of supply teachers instead of closing, thus rendering the strike powerless. This would also apply to hospitals and any other so-called essential service. You will note that the service is deemed essential but the people who operate the service are not. They are expendable. According to the Tories, closing a school for any form of industrial action is evil, unjustified and a serious disruption of a child's education, never mind the disruption to parents who have to make arrangements for their children. However, closing that same school for the election that put them into government is good, necessary and part of the democratic process. Similarly closing the school for any royal activity, such as a wedding, or a visit from one of this family of parasitic benefit scroungers is also good and justified, it is a patriotic celebration. What about the parents? They must be prepared to sacrifice and accommodate to such necessary and patriotic events, I mean who do they think they are if they challenge such decisions? But what about the people who work in the school and who have a fundamental human right to remove their labour if they are being exploited and oppressed? That is of course a completely different story as workers have no rights, especially to go on strike, and any of the artificial rights they still possess will soon be removed for the good of society! They must uncomplainingly close the school and demand that parents accommodate such a closure for state events, but never in the cause of justice, fairness or as protest against exploitation and discrimination.
Under the Tories proposals, in addition to the requirement of 40% of all those eligible to vote supporting any proposed action, a vote for industrial action will be deemed illegal if there is not at least 50% of those who are eligible to vote participating. This means that if 50% of the workforce actually cast a vote, then the proposed action will have to supported by 80% of those voting for it to be deemed legal in order to satisfy the 40% minimum proposal. In last week's election there was a turnout of 66.1% of all possible voters, so, if the Tories proposals for industrial action were applied to this election, then 60.60% of votes on a 66.1% turnout would be necessary to secure the 40% of possible votes necessary to make such an election legal. In last weeks election the Tories won 36.9% of votes cast from turnout of 66.1% meaning that they won 24.4% of possible votes. Therefore by the Tories own standards, this government is illegal and the election will have to be run again. You genuinely couldn't make up such bare faced hypocrisy and affrontery to common sense, to fairness and to outright discrimination against the weakest sections of the population. We are getting closer to a fascist state. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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