Woohoo! Well done the union suits, you fund 90% of the Labour party and they just…told you to go fuck yourselves and you…said yes and offered to pay for the KY. Do you think corporations who pay NuLabour would stand for that kind of disobedience to their agenda? Like BAE for example, ahem. And still the school clique gossip level of political reporting is thrilling to chit chat of Brown being ousted, yeah because a different face on all the same policies is really worthy of our fucking attention.
The Labour Party has rejected trade union demands for less restrictive strike laws at its National Policy Forum at Warwick University.
Controversial government policies such as building a new generation of nuclear power stations, a welfare crackdown and ID cards were also all approved, a Labour spokesman said.
There is something about this ‘welfare crackdown’ that reveals a great deal of eliminationist hate in many people too. The reaction to the Purnell Solution let slip rather too many masks of bourgeois punditry revealing prejudice and bigotry as unemployed & sick people are planned to receive the same treatment as criminals. But that is what neoliberal doctrine inevitably leads to, an unequal society where all but the rich are under control and those very poor treated as criminals simply for existing, the trick to pulling that off is divide and rule and the hatred directed at those on benefits (which currently includes me) showed how easily many are playing into that very rudimentary scam. Many who from their other writing appear to be intelligent enough to know better also lined up with the un-waged slave economists, but then bigotry is no respecter of intellect (as the Iraq war and ‘Islamophobia’ is teaching us).
So there you go at a time of crisis-
And yet, when you would think the unions could do nothing other than denounce Blair/Brownism and force an about-turn in their disastrous anti-working-class policies, what do their leaders do? Issue a joint statement with the Labour leadership welcoming the outcome of the policy forum.
The corporatist dictatorship *sorry* consensus has maintained its iron grip.
29 July, 2008 at 6:50 pm
‘Deliver’ people from the onerous protections of the Great Charter and what do you get ? Yep : reversion to serfdom unacceptable 800+ years ago which was overturned by disgruntled minions.
The Yanks have pulled all their civil rights. The War powers Act does for us. The fat lady hasn’t sung; and if the outcome is uncertain, it sure isn’t hopeful.
29 July, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Hey Opit, yep what with habeas gone it seems we have a ruling class who really are hankering for the good -very- old days. As Chomsky noted 911 was greeted by authoritarians in governments worldwide.