4189 days ago
The Greek General strike has come and gone. A few riots, a few more businesses closed than usual but no real change. Unemployment creeps up. The 4th Reich imposes more austerity and society falls apart. And so as the workers ( or in the case of Greece, non-workers) of the world unite who is next to strike? For a range of reasons I urge some of the lead candidates to go ahead – comrades I stand along side you.
Starting with the poor oppressed editorial team at The Guardian newspaper – average salary no idea but with some highly paid columnists (Polly Toynbee on £300,000) pushing up the mean. My guess is that most of the writers on the Guardian are on £50,000 plus and heck you do not get to live in Islington and Camden if you are on the minimum wage.
4245 days ago
In a week when TUC leaders seemed to think that celebrating the death of Lady Thatcher was funny (before the sad day has even happened) it is perhaps right that we honour those hard working men and women who lead Britain’s unions, toiling away day and night for little reward, battling away on behalf of their hard pressed members as they fight off the wicked Tory cuts.
On a salary of a mere £254,978 a year Bob Crowe stands out as a man of the people. After all he lives in state subsidised housing, does he not? Clearly I am delighted that my taxes go to subsidise such an impoverished fellow.
