It is quite unbelievable that Cameron, backed up by his palliative coalition partners Clegg and Cable is somehow getting away with pushing through a nakedly ideological assault upon the public sector and the state given that he couldn’t even secure an overall majority in the 2010 General Election. Seriously the man was up against a [...]
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The Juggernaut of Privatisation
Posted in Capitalism, CWU, Frustration, Labour, Privatisation, Public Services, Royal Mail, UK politics, Unionism on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As though you fools think you can stop it, look at those poor saps in the union running around talking about ideology and politics and principle, bleating on about fuzzy, abstract concepts such as pensions, people, job security, fair pay. When are they going to realise that there is only one important factor in this [...]
Get back to work! and how dare you try and ‘fight for better conditions’
Posted in Apathy, Capitilism, CWU, Disillusion, Frustration, Labour, Marxism, Political, Postal Strike, Postcomm, Privatisation, rant, Royal Mail, Society, Unionism on October 9, 2007 | 11 Comments »
“What do you think this is? A liberal democracy or something, you posties are forgetting one vital thing, you’re freedom is not an option and you don’t get to choose your own working conditions you should plug away at the job until you retire and don’t get a pension, you do as we say when we say [...]
Royal Mail, a lesson in Byzantine politics
Posted in Capitilism, Economy, Free Market, Government, Postal Strike, Postcomm, Privatisation, Public Services, Royal Mail on August 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As me and my fellow rats are blowing up our waterwings and viewing the horizon for a passing ship the lumbering liner that is Royal Mail steaming full speed ahead begins to dig itself into its watery grave. A slightly rhetorical description but not so far from the truth. The situation is getting increasingly nasty [...]
