Evidence of the way in which the UK has developed parallel societies that have very little understanding of each other continues to accrue.
I read today that 600,000 "council staff" have walked out and are on strike for 48 hours because they are not getting an acceptable pay increase.
Brings a few obvious observations, I note the use of the terms "council staff" presumably use of the term "council workers" would have been struck down under trades description because the idle bastards don't actually do very much apart from enjoying already too high salaries and ridiculous pensions without degrading themselves by actually working.
This has caused a real dilemma for a council employee in the village, because she has been off on full pay claiming stress & anxiety from the local district council for 6 months.
should she now strike for 2 days and stop going out on the town every night or holidaying in Spain as she has so far for the period of her sickness
They are to thick to realise that few people will even notice they have gone on strike because their contribution to day to day life is so little.
Just another example of the new labour ruling classes being divorced from reality.
yesterday I read that women employees will now get 12 months paid leave if they have a baby, so how does that work then ? from where is the poor old employer supposed to get the money to pay not only the person on maternity leave but also the person doing the job they have left behind.
When did it become my responsibility to subsidise someone else desire to breed ? and why ?
where does this end ? if I make a life choice to become a drug addict or to go in pursuit of finding myself should I expect my employer to pay me for a year ?
This argument of course goes full circle because as with council staff we seem to be moving ever faster to a position where people want the salary but not the work that generates it.