If you need any proof that the one thing Tories hate more than anything, its working people who won’t do what they are told to, this is it!
The PCS does have one advantage here in that it has branches in every corner of government. So if government has indicated that it willing to use the military to break individual strikes sector by sector, the thing to do is to take out so many front line functions on the same day that they can’t recruit enough scabs.
Tbh, I agree with the article about ‘government’. I think it’s not right to say ‘Tories’. It doesn’t matter who is ‘in’.
Once you train the army to do other jobs the soldiers can fuck off and do another job, especially if it’s better paid and doesn’t run the risk of people actively wanting to kill you.
They aren’t changing their training specifically for strikes.
Imagine signing up to join the army thinking you’ll go places see things serve your country and all that. Only to end up being a scab.
Oh shit. This is not going to be good. It might get all peterloo in there
there isn’t much they don’t get asked to do these days, maybe they could run the government or something.
Quite sure the army and RAF have received public order training for some time.
Bad idea. Could end up in a situation where the army join the protestors. I don’t see the Army getting pay rises either.
It’s starting to become like living in V for vendetta.
This sub has a major problem.
I can’t find a single source for this other than the one linked by OP, which itself has no citations or references. Not once does it mention – even in as vague terms as “a senior Tory source” – where this information is supposedly coming from.
There is a story about the army apparently being considered as a temporary replacement for striking Border Force staff, which I would consider a legitimate use of the armed forces since guards are needed at ports and border crossings – this can be a life or death matter in some situations – and it’s a better solution than banning the workers involved from striking.
However, r/UK sees this unsourced outrage bait by a left wing shitrag and is fully prepared to believe without so much as a shred of doubt that the government is getting troops ready to storm hospitals and make the nurses go back to work at gunpoint. Jesus Christ. You look every bit as ridiculous and laughable as Daily Mail readers tilting at the latest claim about migrants in detention centres getting free gaming PCs or whatever the spurious scandal of the week happens to be.
Critical thinking is more than just agreeing with everyone who shares your biases and dismissing everyone who doesn’t. That’s not critical thinking, that’s the behaviour of a cult.
Remember Bloody Sunday
Because that’s the reason we don’t send in the army against civilians.
Won’t happen. Political suicide, massively unpopular with squaddies, coppers, strikers, and anyone with a functioning brain cell.
If we get this, do we then get that v for vendetta speech on bbc in the middle of the day?
Just like Margaret thatcher brought in the special constables to topple the unions, I suppose rishi sinks is one upping that huh?
Isn’t this what the police is fo- wait. Is this why they need 20,000 police officers?
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Because that’s what the army is for isn’t it?
If you need any proof that the one thing Tories hate more than anything, its working people who won’t do what they are told to, this is it!
The PCS does have one advantage here in that it has branches in every corner of government. So if government has indicated that it willing to use the military to break individual strikes sector by sector, the thing to do is to take out so many front line functions on the same day that they can’t recruit enough scabs.
Tbh, I agree with the article about ‘government’. I think it’s not right to say ‘Tories’. It doesn’t matter who is ‘in’.
Once you train the army to do other jobs the soldiers can fuck off and do another job, especially if it’s better paid and doesn’t run the risk of people actively wanting to kill you.
They aren’t changing their training specifically for strikes.
Imagine signing up to join the army thinking you’ll go places see things serve your country and all that. Only to end up being a scab.
Oh shit. This is not going to be good. It might get all peterloo in there
there isn’t much they don’t get asked to do these days, maybe they could run the government or something.
Quite sure the army and RAF have received public order training for some time.
Bad idea. Could end up in a situation where the army join the protestors. I don’t see the Army getting pay rises either.
It’s starting to become like living in V for vendetta.
This sub has a major problem.
I can’t find a single source for this other than the one linked by OP, which itself has no citations or references. Not once does it mention – even in as vague terms as “a senior Tory source” – where this information is supposedly coming from.
There is a story about the army apparently being considered as a temporary replacement for striking Border Force staff, which I would consider a legitimate use of the armed forces since guards are needed at ports and border crossings – this can be a life or death matter in some situations – and it’s a better solution than banning the workers involved from striking.
However, r/UK sees this unsourced outrage bait by a left wing shitrag and is fully prepared to believe without so much as a shred of doubt that the government is getting troops ready to storm hospitals and make the nurses go back to work at gunpoint. Jesus Christ. You look every bit as ridiculous and laughable as Daily Mail readers tilting at the latest claim about migrants in detention centres getting free gaming PCs or whatever the spurious scandal of the week happens to be.
Critical thinking is more than just agreeing with everyone who shares your biases and dismissing everyone who doesn’t. That’s not critical thinking, that’s the behaviour of a cult.
Remember Bloody Sunday
Because that’s the reason we don’t send in the army against civilians.
Won’t happen. Political suicide, massively unpopular with squaddies, coppers, strikers, and anyone with a functioning brain cell.
If we get this, do we then get that v for vendetta speech on bbc in the middle of the day?
Just like Margaret thatcher brought in the special constables to topple the unions, I suppose rishi sinks is one upping that huh?
Isn’t this what the police is fo- wait. Is this why they need 20,000 police officers?