Christmas Yule Blog

'Twas the week before Christmas and all across the land, members of Parliament were voting on whether to sell hard fought for employment rights down the river in exchange for for a few pieces of silver,..
No, this isn't Victorian England, it is modern day.
Ebenezer Osbourne announced in his Autumn statement plans to surge ahead with his attack on working people.
His idea is that businesses can offer potential employees as little as £2000 worth of shares in exchange for certain rights such as maternity pay or the right to appeal if unfairly dismissed. This Osbourn claims is fair, and will help the economy. It clearly is not. It is a direct attack on the rights of working people. Something that the Tory government is hell bent on doing. They want businesses to be able to sack workers easily to maximise profits for business owners, many of whom are donors to the Conservative party.
The Tory lead government want to enable companies to not recruit people who refuse to give up their rights.
If they get their way employers will be free to fire any one who doesn't play ball. Anyone who voices concern about health and safety or working conditions will simply be released paving the way for bullying , harassment and a return to Victorian work house conditions. Is this progress?
Osbourne also announced in his statement that benefits increases will be capped at 1%. As inflation is at 2.7% this in real terms a cut of more than 1%. The Tory's claim is that this also is fair , attempting to paint a picture of strivers going out to work in the dark in a morning while benefits claimants wallow in bed until lunch time then get up to watch Jeremy Kyle on their massive Televisions. Again, this claim is simply not true. We have all heard these stories but the reality is that they are the exception not the norm and 60% of the people affected by the cut in benefits will be the strivers on low pay going out to work. The government lies to the electorate in the hope that we are stupid enough to believe the propaganda of the very rich. It is a blatant attempt to divide the nations working people and none working. They want to divide the north ans south of the country. they want to divide private sector and public sector . They want to divide us so we are vulnerable because they know together they will not get back in power.
The coalition is cutting housing benefit, cutting working tax credit cutting police numbers and cutting services across the board that the very poorest rely on while cutting tax for the very richest.
These cuts are not in the interest of the country and will not stimulate growth. They have no real plans to help our economy recover but instead are determined to forge ahead with ideological plans that were designed in the halls of Eton . If they are allowed to do it they will ruin the future of a generation.
They intend to rob workers of any protection and rob the unemployed of any dignity.
Luckily, Saint Nick is on hand to save us. Deputy PM Nick Clegg described the benefits assault as draconian. I would go further than that. They are the spiteful, arrogant plans of men who were born to lead in their view, even though barely any of them have ever had an actual job. this why they do not understand the real world. It is easy for someone who has never been employed to say we don't need employment rights. it is easy for someone who has never been on a council estate to say those people don't deserve services. it is easy for someone who has never been without money to say that shirkers don't deserve any.
They are out of touch with the rest of us to such an extent that their policies seem bewildering to people who are directly affected those policies. Us the voters, the public, the strivers and the shirkers. The public sector , the private sector the poor and the very poor. we must all stand together and never allow the Tories to wreak havoc on society again