At the British Trades Union Congress today there were signs that enough is enough. The public sector unions were indicating that unless the government scraps its cap on public sector pay they will organise for strike action. Significantly the head of the largest public sector union declared that if the circumstances meant that strike action would be deemed unlawful under the present legislation then that would mean that the union movement would break the law. Well said that man. The unions will have the full support of the Kommirat. We live in the most shocking climate of class war and discriminatory inequality in my lifetime in this country and it is a source of bewilderment how this has been allowed to continue for so long without significant resistance. We have a Westminster pigsty filled with the most corrupt and incompetent politicians imaginable who have inflicted a vicious programme of austerity against working people that has seen the average working person lose over £3000 per annum over the past five years whilst that same set of porcine criminals have awarded themselves twelve percent more in the past two years alone. They are shameless and devoid of any moral compass or decency yet demand that working people adhere to standards that are completely alien to the British elite who regard law and respect for others as matters for the lesser beings.
For example, why should the unions ignore the law surrounding rules governing strike action? In 2016 the government passed legislation requiring unions to be subject to rules that demand that strikes are only legal when at least 50% of the membership actually vote. If justice has to be the foundation of the law, then the majority of elected officials in the United Kingdom would be in office illegally, as would some of the members of the pigsty, as it is unusual for elections to command a 50% turnout in this country. Even at general elections some constituencies do not achieve it, but it is the norm at local elections. In addition they introduced a clause requiring that 40% of all those entitled to vote in the ballot must vote in favour of industrial action in certain public services such as health, education, fire and transport. Thus, in the event of a 50% turnout in those sectors, it would require 80% of all votes to be in favour of strike action for the strike to be legal. This is blatant class warfare and a violation of all known norms of justice and the rule of law. The withdrawal of your labour, the only resource available to a working person, is a fundamental human right, to deny it is tantamount to slavery. Clause 40 of the Magna Carta in 1215 states that "To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice". The Tories have taken us back to the Middle Ages. It was Augustine of Hippo who warned us about such legislation when he told us that "Surely we will not dare to say that these laws are unjust, or rather that they are not laws at all. For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all." And it was St Thomas Aquinas who told us that we cannot be bound to obey laws that are unjust because laws that violate reason are not laws, they are something else.
By its arbitrary abuse of law and reason the Tory government places the very foundations of the state in jeopardy. You are all well aware of how I quote Adam Smith who tells us that
"Society, however, cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another. The moment that injury begins, the moment that mutual resentment and animosity take place, all the bands of it are broke asunder, and the different members of which it consisted are, as it were, dissipated and scattered abroad by the violence and opposition of their discordant affections. If there is any society amongst robbers and murderers, they must at least, according to the trite observation, abstain from robbing and murdering one another. Beneficence, therefore, is less essential to the existence of society than justice. Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence, but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it".
Even the ancient Greeks understood this better than the British as Pericles told us that "Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state is not far off". So much of British law today has no authority other than the hatred and prejudice of the Tories and the British elite, and things are only going to get worse. The legislation being rushed through the pigsty to cover the Brexit process has been described even by some Tories as shameful and unacceptable. It will of course be passed. British society is in a perilous state, divided and riven with inequality and injustice. The basis of all Tory policy is hatred, of working people, of Europe, of immigrants, or foreigners in general and the poor the disabled etc. But the largest driver of their policy agenda is class, as their class hatreds are awesome to behold. Britain is descending into darkness. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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