Showing posts with label our normal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label our normal. Show all posts

Monday 3 August 2020

Normal Is Up To Us.

        While we suffer under this pandemic, to hear the political ballerinas talk of getting back to normal, if this statement wasn't so hypocritical and tragic for the ordinary people of this country, it would be laughable. For our lords and masters, getting back to normal, means run out to work, if you have a job, and spend you spare time consuming. They desperately need you to get their tills wringing, they are getting nervous because we are not being able to be milk to their liking, we are needed to get their loot growing again.
      Try to imagine "normal" with mass unemployment a certainty. As the covid19 virus creeps invisibly across the land, unemployment keeps rising. Below is a wee glimpse of what awaits us in the new "normal" that our corporate and political bosses want us to return to. We have to create the new normal, one that sees to the needs of all our people and jettisons the pampered parasite class, that want to risk your health and well-being for the sake of their power, wealth, and privileges. Don't be a sucker.
       The latest job losses to be announced is in the shape of DW Sports, entering into administration this week with the risk of 1,700 job losses.
Other job losses already announced:
Up to 5,000 job cuts at Upper Crust owner SSP Group
Up to 700 jobs at Harrods
About 600 workers at shirtmaker TM Lewin
1,900 jobs at Café Rouge-owner Casual Dining Group
1,000 jobs at Pret A Manger
1,700 UK jobs at plane-maker Airbus
1,300 crew and 727 pilots at EasyJet
550 jobs are going at Daily Mirror publisher Reach
450 jobs going at Selfridges
650 job losses at Alexander Dennis, bus makers
1,200 job losses at Dyson
up to 1,200 job losses at The National Trust
British Airways 12,000
BP 10,000
Rolls-Royce 8,000
Centrica 5,000
Swissport 4,000
Boots 4,000
Restuarant Group 3,000
Restaurant Group owns Frankie & Benny’s and Wagamama
Up to 5,000 job cuts at Upper Crust owner SSP Group
Up to 700 jobs at Harrods
About 600 workers at shirtmaker TM Lewin
1,900 jobs at Café Rouge-owner Casual Dining Group
1,000 jobs at Pret A Manger
1,700 UK jobs at plane-maker Airbus
1,300 crew at Easyjet
727 pilots at EasyJet
550 jobs are going at Daily Mirror publisher Reach.
 
        This list is by no way complete and comprehensive, there are a multitude of small business that are shedding employees, with some closing down completely.
       A fair list of people looking for work with the pandemic far from over, and the furlough scheme ending in a couple of months. That simple action alone, will see employers jettison employees by the lorry load. Now think very hard about getting back to normal, especial if you are in one of the families affect by those daily growing numbers. 
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Thursday 30 April 2020

Whose Script?

     At the moment we are in the midst of a world moving event, opportunity, for who, or disaster, for who. The aftermath of this world moving event could be much worse than the event itself. Fortunately the script has not yet been written. how we fare will depend on who writes the narrative. It is up to us the vast majority of the population to take charge of that pen and write our script the way we wish to shape our story.
     All pulling together should remain as it is during this event, doing it to help each other, it should not be used to help pull the system back to what it was, the opposite must be our aim, to bury the past normal and build our own.
The following is an extract from:
      Resistance; To those who say that now is not the time for “civil unrest,” that division is unhelpful, that we must keep going... we say: now is the time for it all. Mutual aid and solidarity can be no more than acts of charity if they are not combined with resistance in this current context. Carefully, whilst being safe and thinking of others... rebel, resist, and plan. Find the gaps, use the skills and networks you have. Keep yourself sane and your rebellious heart burning, because when the virus eases, the police state will continue, and food parcels and lending books are not going to dismantle it. Stay sharp.COVID-19 is in many ways a global gift to all leaders and politicians seeking to ramp up social control. After the virus eases, we will see unprecedented changes on a global scale as legislation that was rushed through hangs over us like a spectre and people obediently go about their business, terrified of Covid-20. We hope that we will never be too scared to resist. Corona shows us that the system is fucked. Will you kick it while it’s down
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