Beware a winter of discontent

“brochadav - the reason the country s in a mess are because there are 5-7 million people who are mostly too lazy to work. Many would rather sponge off the rest of us than get off their backsides to work.

I agree that MPs are out of touch and overpaid, but people keep voting for the same type of people every time, whether Labour, Tory or Lib Dem. Most MPs who were involved in the expenses scandal got re-elected. What does that say about the electorate? The complain about MPs and then vote them back in even when they've done wrong. Most of the public are to blame for that.

Regarding extortionate pay rises, poor people seem to support that as well. If people think it is so bad then they should boycott the products of those companies. I know that can't be done in every case, but it can be done with lots of things. But the fact is that people don't really care enough. They just want to strike and hope someone else will fix the problem.

People are their own worst enemies at times.”

“That would be the same Welsh Assembly you want to get rid of?

Bwaaaa”

“Jiffy, The Labour Welsh Assembly run the NHS in Wales, it's nothing to do with England any more.”

“If something isn't done soon, the Welsh NHS will soon be sold off beneath out feet in the same way the NHS in England is going.

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Jeremy Hunt under the Tory NHS Act has the power to order that parts of our NHS are put up for sale whether local health professionals or patients want it or not. Yesterday, I wrote a piece about the waves of local privatisation that will face the NHS. Wave 1 concludes in 19 days by which time 456 community health chunks of the NHS must be put up for sale (the list is here at the link) by CCGs. That's right, they have been forced by the Tories to sell at least 3 parts of their community health services. Wave 2 of Tory Privatisation begins in 20 days time, as on this day Jeremy Hunt has ordered the NHS, locally, to begin to sell off another 456 chunks of the NHS.”

“brochadav your right executive pay since the early 80's has risen 30 times faster than the average worker. In fact today average wages are little higher than they were 20 years ago, just 4% in real terms. I wouldn't mind executives earning so much i they also paid a little tax on the way, not a huge amount just a little!”

“I used to be a union rep and I usually disagree with striking as it is us that loses money. And normally striking affects the business detrimentally too.
There comes a time though when a stand has to be made. We constantly see executive pay rising way ahead of inflation while the people who actually do the work are told they can either have a below inflation rise, or nothing at all. Our MP's are mostly rich, they are out of touch and seem to have learnt nothing from the expenses scandal.
immigrant1, it is never acceptable to make the poor worse of while lining your own pockets. Part of the reason the economy is in such a rubbish state is because the majority of people cannot afford to spend, not even on essentials in many cases.
I've said it before but to some too much money is never enough. When you have more money than you can ever spend isn't it time to stop taking and start giving, greed is not good.”

“Anyone who fights for their future pensions has to be commended. If only everyone could have a pension as generous as our MP's then everyone would be happy.”

“The tax payer pumps thousands into the public sector and they are ungrateful, they always want more. I haven't had a pay rise in years. If they are so unhappy get another job. But it must save the tax payer thousand when they strike for a day, they should do it more often, a day here and there save money for the tax payer. But iv'e seen it before they will strike one day, and the following week do overtime to make they money up. That's the unions for you, they shut companies down then you won't see them when everyone is laid off.”

“The Tory Gov needs a winter of discontent like a hole in the head, this will lead to further falls in GDP and the Tories in turn falling even further behind labour.

immigrant1 would seem to have the same views of many in the Tory party, the same people who have got us into the mess we're in today”

“Moral in many workplaces is very low and most people are struggling with money problems. It's about time employees got a pat on the back instead of being made to pay for the country's misfortunes.
A happy worker works more effectively and efficiently.”