General strike/protest

[roydo]

A specific 'we've had enough sh1te' organised by 'the people'. Remember them?

Not anyone I have met over the last few weeks mate. If I am honest.

I know you are passionate about this sort of stuff, which is sound by me, so it must be incredibly frustrating that most folk really dont care as much as you do.

 

[rascal]

Not anyone I have met over the last few weeks mate. If I am honest.

I know you are passionate about this sort of stuff, which is sound by me, so it must be incredibly frustrating that most folk really dont care as much as you do.

I think this is true.

Unfortunately there are too many 'I'm all right jack, screw you' types in England. The media will cast he protesters in a bad light, and people who swallow the crap the mainstream media ram down their throats will consider them hooligans, as they did when young people legitimately protested against the rise in tuition fees and the occupy movement, best exemplified when Louise Mensch thought the protesters were being contradictory by going to a Starbucks or other High Street coffee shop for light refreshments, totally missing the point that the occupy movement wasn't arguing for the return of a stone age bartering system.

 

[roydo]

I think this is true.

Unfortunately there are too many 'I'm all right jack, screw you' types in England.

Not sure it is "screw you", in fact I am sure it isnt, for most folk anyrate.

 

[rascal]

Not sure it is "screw you", in fact I am sure it isnt, for most folk anyrate.

It is as far as cutting funding for the most disadvantaged is concerned.

 

[The Cowboy]

I think this is true.

Unfortunately there are too many 'I'm all right jack, screw you' types in England.

If there are too many like this, and not many prepared to strike, things can't be that bad then can they!

<just kidding>

 

[magicjuan]

Not anyone I have met over the last few weeks mate. If I am honest.

I know you are passionate about this sort of stuff, which is sound by me, so it must be incredibly frustrating that most folk really dont care as much as you do.

I believe they do, perhaps it is social circles, I don't know, but things have now gone so far that the vast majority now know someone very much affected, be they doctors, nurses, teachers, disabled etc ad infinitum, they just need to distract the others enough from their stupor before there is no return.

I am in no way frustrated, when you see things the way I see things it drifts into being scared. If you join up legislation and see a pathway through and ideology taking hold it's hard not to expect a new Niemoller showing up.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think this is true.

Unfortunately there are too many 'I'm all right jack, screw you' types in England. The media will cast he protesters in a bad light, and people who swallow the crap the mainstream media ram down their throats will consider them hooligans, as they did when young people legitimately protested against the rise in tuition fees and the occupy movement, best exemplified when Louise Mensch thought the protesters were being contradictory by going to a Starbucks or other High Street coffee shop for light refreshments, totally missing the point that the occupy movement wasn't arguing for the return of a stone age bartering system.

More people from disadvantaged backgrounds go to university since they were introduced, and the proportion is higher in England than it is in Scotland. If only those folks used their energies in slightly more constructive ways.

 

[rascal]

More people from disadvantaged backgrounds go to university since they were introduced, and the proportion is higher in England than it is in Scotland. If only those folks used their energies in slightly more constructive ways.

I'm not against the idea of tuition fees, rather the fact that they're now so high. Irrespective, it was a legitimate protest.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'm not against the idea of tuition fees, rather the fact that they're now so high. Irrespective, it was a legitimate protest.

Yes, but as has subsequently been shown, it was wrong. All it managed to do was remove the Lib Dems as any kind of political force.

 

[dandydan]

Next year is the 100th anniversary of the February and October Revolutions. Let's wait until then and do it properly.

Yeah lets murder millions of people and put the rest working for the state for a pittance.

 

[Deggo]

Seen some early organising and campaigning for a sort of general strike on 4th July this year.

Anybody particpate if it went ahead?

Generally against the attacks on everything from the disabled to the junior doctors by this runt of a government...

typo maybe....

Unless it's a union backed strike you will get all the snakes not participating

 

[rascal]

Yes, but as has subsequently been shown, it was wrong. All it managed to do was remove the Lib Dems as any kind of political force.

It was legitimate and still is. Tuition fees are ridiculously high.

 

[roydo]

I will just hope loads of people buy crap off the internet on the 3rd, so they will all be in when I deliver it the next day.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It was legitimate and still is. Tuition fees are ridiculously high.

And yet more students sign up from poor backgrounds than before the increase, and you don't pay the loans back until you're earning enough to do so.

It seems much fairer to expect someone who will earn considerably more than average over their lifetime to foot the bill for the education that gave them that income than to expect your humble shop worker scraping by to chip in via higher taxes. Doesn't seem very progressive.

 

[rascal]

And yet more students sign up from poor backgrounds than before the increase, and you don't pay the loans back until you're earning enough to do so.

It seems much fairer to expect someone who will earn considerably more than average over their lifetime to foot the bill for the education that gave them that income than to expect your humble shop worker scraping by to chip in via higher taxes. Doesn't seem very progressive.

A better educated society is a good thing, wouldn't you agree?