Trade Unions have always been intensely vulnerable to the charge that they further the interests of their members at the expense of other working people and other members of low income classes, and the unemployed; most particularly they discriminate against women in family life. They belong to an essentially bread-winner, masculinist culture rooted, quite reasonably considering their historical status, in the century that ended in the 1980s.
With the collapse of heavy and manufacturing industry in the United Kingdom, the closing of the mines, the steel works, the ship building industry, the car industry and all its associated trades, engineering, machine tools, aircraft manufacture (what a horrifying list of industrial degeneration), and the steady focussing of all United Kingdom wealth creation within the financial sector, both economically and geographically located away from former areas of production, the trade unions have learned to regret their former arrogance towards women and the non-unionised sectors of our society.
Butter wouldn't melt in their mouths as they appoint women union officers, and claim as their areas of concerned action such social sectors as child poverty and the young, fuel poverty and the old, tax policy and all of us, health and educational services, pensions, immigration, multiculturalism, outreach, Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.
Unfortunately those sectors of our lives are no more their business than they are the business of each and every one of us individually; and while the trade unions act as a tightly organised group of politically motivated men (to borrow a phrase), they act with wholesale impropriety in a pluralist, individualist democracy.
The United Kingdom needs a general election to preserve the very notion and existence of democracy in our lives, never mind the opportune removal of an unelected Prime Minister and his lickspittle Executive who have reduced us all in the narrow interests of the once economically productive and their remnant organisations.
Even Lenin regarded them as pernicious.
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yes hatters, the general population is sleepwalking into anti-democracy.
Harperson has declared that you can discriminate against whites when recruiting. But what if you then say, "That person only got the job because they are black"? You are a racist.
"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened....
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie.(Bible)
All lies are noble, for they come from the heart.(Dron)
Identity is racist, sexist, classist, culture-bound, ageist, mannerist, and given to cultism. Superficial physical characteristics used for quick identification when we interact are carrying an outrageously over-weighted importance in attempts to homogenize, and downgrade the importance of the population at large, and the individuality of everyone who makes up the population.
Individuals are so difficult to herd and farm, (cf cats.) So the more distinctive traits are refused recognition and all classed together, the easier the herding.
Even Angels are ordered, but at least God orders them by their powers and their beauty.
That Brown bloke - now it's all going to shit, he's gone very quiet again. Do you think they have had to up his medication, and that he might be temporarily (hmmm) "not fit for purpose".
Paging the Prime Minister. Paging the Prime Minister. Financial shit storm heading towards us at high speed. Gordon. Gordon ....
He's been in Brussels, Elby, trying to sell Northern Rock having £110 billion of your, and everyone else in the UK's money, so New Labour voters can keep on troughing.
The only slogan for Brown is:
Come out Gordon! Come out, Come out Wherever You Are!
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