Pickets.

    

            Strikes are widespread across the country, and rightly so, as the ordinary people of this country are being savaged by the parasite financial Mafia class, all for profit for the big boys. We are being hit with massive food price increases, stratospheric energy price rises, brutal cuts to social services, wage restraint, and the promise that we will be 7% worse off by the next two years. Just remember the strikers are your neighbours, the group you meet in the pub, the bunch you go to the match with, they are us. Their fight is our fight and we must support the strikes, join their picket lines, show your support, for all of us, this is a fight we must win if we have to have any semblance of a decent life. See  Solidarity to find out how and where to support the pickets.

Some photos from this morning's picket lines, join them.

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Class War.

            Well people of UK, now you know, with Kwarteng's massive-mini budget we face raw capitalism, capitalism with the gloves off. No sham, no illusions, feed the rich and keep the poor poor, to give the poor money would only feed inflation. While we struggle with astronomical energy bills and struggle to feed our families adequately, millions of pounds are thrown at the very rich. In the UK there are 19,000 who earn more than £1million a year, the chancellor has just handed them a further £55,000 a year to play around with. If you earn £20,000 a year, the chancellor's tax cuts will give you the princely sum of £1.43 a week more to spend. Well Kwarteng tells us the rich with all that extra money will invest in giving you high paid jobs. My bet is that they will now consider a larger yacht or a bigger super car. What will you do with your fabulous windfall of £1.43 a week? Well not a lot, as it and much more will be gobbled up with your new energy bill come October. While you struggle spare a thought for those poor bankers who have had to survive on annual bonuses of just twice their annual salary. Kwarteng has seen their plight and abolished the cap on bankers bonuses. The man's sympathy knows no bounds, well except for the poor.
          With this comes suggestions that the 48 hour week could be scrapped, and new legislation to curtail strike action. Well if you want to survive this cull on the poor we had better get organised now. Increase strike action before they put the hems on it. Once the legislation is in place it will be a much harder struggle. Don't wait for the extra chains to be put round your ankles, act now, end this jamboree of power, privilege and wealth, end this onslaught on the ordinary people, end this drive to accumulate more wealth for the pampered, privileged few.

 

Image courtesy of Mail Online.

 

Image courtesy of Trussell Trust.

Quote from Institute of Fiscal Studies:

Paul Johnson, IFS Director, said: 

          “Today, the Chancellor announced the biggest package of tax cuts in 50 years without even a semblance of an effort to make the public finance numbers add up. Instead, the plan seems to be to borrow large sums at increasingly expensive rates, put government debt on an unsustainable rising path, and hope that we get better growth. This marks such a dramatic change in the direction of economic policy-making that some of the longer-serving cabinet ministers might be worried about getting whiplash.
          Mr Kwarteng has shown himself willing to gamble with fiscal sustainability in order to push through these huge tax cuts. He is willing to shrug off the risks of inflation, and to invite significantly higher interest rates. And he has avoided scrutiny by presenting a Budget in all but name without accompanying forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility.

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Strike.

          The media and that gang of Oxbridge/Winchester College prancing wealthy political ballerinas, keep bellowing about a "cost of living crisis", when the ordinary person on the street knows that it is an "exploitation crisis". We are supposed to accept our children go hungry, our elder shiver through the winter, if they make it, while the country is awash with billionaires, companies are recording record profits, CEO are being paid millions in remuneration and billions are being lavished on greedy worthless shareholders. We are meant to grin and bear it to help to keep inflation down, to help the economy to grow.

 

        Well it is becoming blatantly obvious that the the one thing that is growing in this millionaires' paradise is the anger of the ordinary people. Day and daily people are taking to the streets, strikes are growing, that simmering anger is now a glowing flame. There is a realisation that we don't have to accept poverty at the whim of the billionaire class of parasites. We will not be poor to help the "economy", that capitalist gambling casino, spin a few more wheels. There is a determination that we will not be poor anymore. We create all the wealth, we demand and will take control of that wealth to be fairly distributed among all our people. 

       Here are some of the anger that is growing fast, we must all get behind those on strike, join them on the streets, show determination and solidarity. This is our fight for a decent life our kids and grand kids, to free them from the constant crisis of greed driven capitalism. 

 

 

       10 May: 100 refuse collectors in Welwyn Hatfield walked out in protest against a manager accused of sexism, racism and bullying; 11 May: 300 construction workers at a refinery in Hull went on strike because of wage payments being delayed or incomplete; 17 May: over a thousand offshore oil workers in the North Sea walked out across 19 rigs demanding their wages match inflation; 27 July: 100 workers at a food plant in Bury walked out in response to not being allowed proper breaks at work; 3 August: hundreds of Amazon workers at various sites in Tilbury, Rugeley, Coventry, Bristol, Dartford and Coalville have staged walkouts and slowdowns in response to a pay “rise” of only 35p more per hour: 10 August: hundreds of contract workers, including scaffolders and maintenance workers, at refineries, chemical plants and other facilities in Teesside, Grangemouth, Pembroke, Fife, Fawley and Drax walked out in a fight over pay, Sunday 20th August 1,900 members of the Unite union at Felixstowe Docks in Suffolk are walking out for eight days in a dispute over pay. August 22nd. criminal barristers in England and Wales go on all out strike over pay, legal aid funding and working conditions.

 

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