Makes me feel like I should be protesting outside my city hall, not on a single issue, but because our leaders have turned our world a bit shit in every way I can think of when they were supposed to make it a bit better, while their new paymasters have robbed us blind and now they accuse us of being greedy.
It is kind of weird the political parties (and the media!) keep pushing this anti-strikes narrative in face of their popularity among the public.
Join a union – Organize and fight for higher wages – Fight against corporations and the government oppressing you with an insane cost of living. Join online: https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
The truth is Brits are too accepting of poor salaries – and salaries across the board need a rapid adjustment, with the teachers strikes in Scotland you have plenty on r/Scotland proclaiming teachers make “great salaries”
Brits have gotten so comfortable with being poor and accepting poor salaries we label £43k in Scotland as a ‘high earner’ not deserving of any raise as is the case for experienced teachers
Low and middle class salaries in the UK are utter shit
Lower/middle class tory voters are contempt with being paid poor wages themselves as long as they are convinced that someone else has it worse than them.
With plenty of people supporting a lot of the strikes, it seems the public at least agree that the UK no longer works as it should. It is fine for the rich and those with the right connections, however the average person is lucky to just get by these days. For all the Tories’ talk of Labour wanting to take us back to the 70s and being a terrible choice for running the economy, all these strikes have shown is that the Tories should not throw stones in glass houses. Labour would not have been perfect but they would have to be very poor to be worse than the Tories have been on the economy.
It does seem counterintuitive that when nurse and doctor retention is so low not to increase pay to reduce a higher agency bill.
Incidentally heard today that consultants if they work overtime end up getting taxed more than they earn, that is beyond stupid.
This is the time the whole country needs to go on strike outside the houses of Parliament. This cause is one which the public can get behind, so many years of shitty economics, literally no meaningful exports, and moving the middle and low earners closer to the poverty line as inflation outstripped wages.
The Government doesn’t give a shit, they aren’t going to lose thier earnings and their cushy benefits, fuck you to Joe Public. The country and how it’s been run is an embarrassment. The people deserve better. Britain is going to the dogs, looking at the countries out there that for years were thought of as primitive and ‘behind’ the times. Let’s face it, we had our moment in the sun during the industrial revolution, but now, we are nowhere near as powerful and prosperous as we should be in the world stage.
What was the point of putting so much emphasis on educating the nation, increasing literacy rates, providing a safety net if not to increase the wealth of the nation, and bringing prosperity to everyone. The blame lies with the government, and the people need to show them they are here to serve, and they’ve been terrible at it over the last 30 years.
The NHS is awful and has been years but the politicians don’t know about it, with their private healthcare, they don’t experience what the rest of us do. That’s the problem.
Schools are performing as best as they can on shoestring budgets and bad wages, the politicians don’t know about it, with their private paid for schools, they don’t put their kids in the state system. That’s the problem.
I see a pattern emerging. I just wish politicians would just stop lying to normal people. Rishi “I’m registered with an NHS doctor” Sunak – yeah, but I better you’ve never used them.
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Makes me feel like I should be protesting outside my city hall, not on a single issue, but because our leaders have turned our world a bit shit in every way I can think of when they were supposed to make it a bit better, while their new paymasters have robbed us blind and now they accuse us of being greedy.
It is kind of weird the political parties (and the media!) keep pushing this anti-strikes narrative in face of their popularity among the public.
Join a union – Organize and fight for higher wages – Fight against corporations and the government oppressing you with an insane cost of living. Join online: https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
The truth is Brits are too accepting of poor salaries – and salaries across the board need a rapid adjustment, with the teachers strikes in Scotland you have plenty on r/Scotland proclaiming teachers make “great salaries”
Brits have gotten so comfortable with being poor and accepting poor salaries we label £43k in Scotland as a ‘high earner’ not deserving of any raise as is the case for experienced teachers
Low and middle class salaries in the UK are utter shit
Lower/middle class tory voters are contempt with being paid poor wages themselves as long as they are convinced that someone else has it worse than them.
With plenty of people supporting a lot of the strikes, it seems the public at least agree that the UK no longer works as it should. It is fine for the rich and those with the right connections, however the average person is lucky to just get by these days. For all the Tories’ talk of Labour wanting to take us back to the 70s and being a terrible choice for running the economy, all these strikes have shown is that the Tories should not throw stones in glass houses. Labour would not have been perfect but they would have to be very poor to be worse than the Tories have been on the economy.
It does seem counterintuitive that when nurse and doctor retention is so low not to increase pay to reduce a higher agency bill.
Incidentally heard today that consultants if they work overtime end up getting taxed more than they earn, that is beyond stupid.
This is the time the whole country needs to go on strike outside the houses of Parliament. This cause is one which the public can get behind, so many years of shitty economics, literally no meaningful exports, and moving the middle and low earners closer to the poverty line as inflation outstripped wages.
The Government doesn’t give a shit, they aren’t going to lose thier earnings and their cushy benefits, fuck you to Joe Public. The country and how it’s been run is an embarrassment. The people deserve better. Britain is going to the dogs, looking at the countries out there that for years were thought of as primitive and ‘behind’ the times. Let’s face it, we had our moment in the sun during the industrial revolution, but now, we are nowhere near as powerful and prosperous as we should be in the world stage.
What was the point of putting so much emphasis on educating the nation, increasing literacy rates, providing a safety net if not to increase the wealth of the nation, and bringing prosperity to everyone. The blame lies with the government, and the people need to show them they are here to serve, and they’ve been terrible at it over the last 30 years.
The NHS is awful and has been years but the politicians don’t know about it, with their private healthcare, they don’t experience what the rest of us do. That’s the problem.
Schools are performing as best as they can on shoestring budgets and bad wages, the politicians don’t know about it, with their private paid for schools, they don’t put their kids in the state system. That’s the problem.
I see a pattern emerging. I just wish politicians would just stop lying to normal people. Rishi “I’m registered with an NHS doctor” Sunak – yeah, but I better you’ve never used them.