[Closed] A winter of discontent. Is it likely?

I think you've just summed it up in the sentence:

On the other hand I can't see any public sector strikes having much (if any) support from many people who don't actually work in the public sector, and could end up being counter-productive.

Rightly or wrongly there is a whole lot of people in the private sector who have had job cuts, pay cuts and benefit cuts who feel that it is just the public sectors turn.

The unions have to act on behalf of their members but they need to be very careful how they do it.

*Pops kettle on*

Well seeing as I'll have more pressing issues to worry about (just been called in to see my boss and it wasn't for a bonus) I for one won't be out agitating on the streets and don't feel particularly well deposed towards those that are moaning.

This govenerment as with many we've had recently aren't going to be interrested in anything other than themselves.

Just a very good reason to privatise more services, sell off surplus buildings, but it does allow the shrinking unions look as if they really care for the workers.

Strangeley on the same day the tuc hold their annual meeting in their offices, instead of a huge junket at the seaside.

CFH - don't you mean *rings down to scullery and request Earl Grey*

Cutbacks, Derek, cutbacks. After all, we're all in this together, what! 😀

A winter of discontent

Is this in response to a decade of previous Labour administration?

Ooooooo the parallels with the past.

Why are leftwingers so ****ing incompetent and governing?

Why are leftwingers so **** incompetent and governing?

Erm... have you seen the latest economic figures monkey boy? The present (right wing) lot aren't looking too clever at the moment either

This will be the government thats been in power, lets see...a year? You do realise when someone screws a car into the ground it takes longer than a day to repair the engine, replace the brakes and steering.

in power, lets see...a year?

If you took on the role of CEO at a failing company and after a year it was failing further, what would happen to you?

billions of debt doesn't disolve or the issues with public sector pensions go away in just a year. Bit of a bad analogy.

Thing is, public sector workers have a NIMBY attitude.

You familiar with the phrase 'double-dip recession'

I'd get used to it. All the indicators are that that's where they're taking us. And as little lord Fauntleroy is keen to keep telling us; "there is no plan B"

Well if I was him, I'd get ****ing writing one pretty sharpish

We're going to need a bigger kettle.

In response to TSY:

award myself 5 million share options, put out a false press release re big orders, cash in the shares, then retire....

dont be silly the government have said theyll prevent this all from happening again by seperating high street from casino banking, but not for another 8 years or so,.... so erm never then

Bit of a bad analogy.

Like your car one 😆

Thing is, public sector workers have a NIMBY attitude.

They're always the first ones to protest when an incinerator is planned, let alone a travellers' halting site.

It won't be a winter of discontent, as if all the work shy fop strikers will do it when it is cold and dark!! 😈 😆

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yep dd has it i think gideon may not be chancellor by the time plan B is wheeled out

i think the cocaine thing is trying to link him up to hiring coulson
and we all know how the torries love a good kinky sex scandal
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a photo with a tory minister, lines of coke and a dominatrix used to get the murdoch press all excited; been strangely quiet on this one

Why are leftwingers so **** incompetent and governing?

you consider the previous Labour administration to be [i]left[/i] wing?

So the expansion of the public sector isn't the act of a leftwing government?

The worse thing about handwringing labour-supporters is they hate rich people soo much that they daren't admit when their own party is incompetent.

Sorry, but how is it a bad analogy?

We stupidly as a nation voted in someone who is completely incompetent... give him a pay-off, whatever, and let's have someone who has a clue.

Hora, it feels as if you're saying that they won't possibly be able to sort it out in 1, or 2, or even maybe 5 years...

And Reactionary, Yorkshire Tory bell-ends like you are so knee-jerk anti 'left' that you don't even realise that supporting this lot is like Turkeys voting for Christmas

What exactly do you think they're going to do for you? Top of the agenda for them at the moment is cutting tax for people earning over £150,000 a year, and kicking the banking reform into the long grass. Both at the request of their mates in the city, to the utter determent of the rest of us

How do you see yourself benefiting personally from those policies then?

Edit: and just for your blinkered, ill-informed planet-head, public spending as a % of GDP went up under the woman you no doubt **** over - Margaret Thatcher. I suppose if we use your analogy, that makes her a leftie too?

Yeah- quickly huh?

http://www.debtbombshell.com/

It looks like its approaching a trillion?

So if the public sector DOES go on strike- where do they expect us all to gethe money from?

'Greedy bankers'?

Its abit more than about the bankers but then leftwing STW'ers will tell us that that much debt is the bankers fault.

So the expansion of the public sector isn't the act of a leftwing government?

I think that when looked at in it's entirity (rather than cherry picking examples to suit your own prejudices) that the economic policies of the previous Labour adminsitrations are on balance right wing. Perhaps not as right wing as you would like but right wing none the less.