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Call over council workers' pay

Government ministers including Gordon Brown have been pressed to support a call for higher pay for council workers ahead of a ballot for industrial action by 850,000 local government employees.

COUNCIL WORKERS PAY

27.05.08, 8:25pm

Paying the workers, that is to say the actual workers more money is only right; but 850000 is a lot of workers. With the overpaid unelected leaders of District Councils sapping the public purse with their self replicating parasitic bureacracy, where will this end. If all councils were made unitary, therefore stopping the unnessasary duplication of paper pushers; and all the quangoes and pointless government bodies who waste billions each year were exiled to Siberia, the genuine workers could have a 25 percent pay rise at no extra expence to the country.

• Posted by: 106dl • Report Comment

THE REAL DISCONTENT STARTS TUESDAY 27TH MAY 2008 WHEN THE FUEL TAX PROTESTS KICK-OFF IN LONDON

26.05.08, 3:29pm

WHAT a bloody Summer we are going to have.

The entire workforce - including the police - will be either on strike or working-to-rule by the end of this year.

Where's the General Election?

Where's the Referendum on the EU?

How many poor people are going to die unnecessarily next Winter because they cannot afford to heat their homes or feed their families?

Meanwhile, we are governed by unelected Dictator Prudence U-Turn Brown and a gaggle of parasites in the House of Conmen.

Roll on the Revolution - it is not far away.

• Posted by: ReubenMohawali • Report Comment

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ANOTHER WINTER OF DISCONTENT COURTESY OF GORMLESS BROWN?

26.05.08, 1:41pm


I remember the heady days of James Callaghan's Labour government in 1978-9.

What a marvellous Prime Minister he was.

Public sector employees' on strike, unofficial strike by gravediggers, dustmen on strike, mile-high piles of rubbish in Leicester Square, NHS ancillary workers blockading hospital entrances, hospitals taking emergency patients only.

Oh what wonderful days they were!

If you are too young to remember that don't fret. You are about to see it all over again courtesy of Gormless Brown.




• Posted by: Peter_Pan • Report Comment

GORDON BROWN

26.05.08, 9:50am

There is little point in the Labour Party tearing itself apart only to increase the toty majority at the next election.
a) there is not time for a new leader to establish himself and reorganise the party and its policies.
any economic improvement, if it comes, will be too late to make itself evident. In any case unlikely this year and probably not next.
b) There is no credible alternative at present.`Shaw or Miliband or any of the others talked about could not win a parish council never mind a general election. If there is a realisic successor to Brown he or she is at present unknown and will have to emerge from the bulk of the party and need more than 2 years to establish themselves.
Labour cannot win but the toties can lose if they commit some tremendous stupidity twixt now and the election.
As the man sais "aweek is a long time in politics"

• Posted by: Bentrovato • Report Comment

GORDON BROWN

26.05.08, 9:49am

There is little point in the Labour Party tearing itself apart only to increase the toty majority at the next election.
a) there is not time for a new leader to establish himself and reorganise the party and its policies.
any economic improvement, if it comes, will be too late to make itself evident. In any case unlikely this year and probably not next.
b) There is no credible alternative at present.`Shaw or Miliband or any of the others talked about could not win a parish council never mind a general election. If there is a realisic successor to Brown he or she is at present unknown and will have to emerge from the bulk of the party and need more than 2 years to establish themselves.
Labour cannot win but the toties can lose if they commit some tremendous stupidity twixt now and the election.
As the man sais "aweek is a long time in politics"

• Posted by: Bentrovato • Report Comment

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