How exciting. The Unions are going to bring the unemployed out on the streets (it'll be an afternoon phenomenon owing to the getting out of bed in the morning problems of the economically inactive.). They are going to riot, we are promised, unless middle class people give up their winter fuel allowances and child benefits, which they don't need. And the middle classes must pay higher taxes so that the 'stimulus' can continue and not drive the UK economy into a double dip now that Brown has led us all safely into economic recovery - fragile, though, and vulnerable to evil middle class tax avoiders and their child benefit greed.
It's the best solution, or at least the most entertaining. The unemployed can be joined by the public 'service' workers (threatened with unemployment by the middle classes consuming their own tax payments), and fight the police, on the telly, watched by those unemployed too lazy to be out there fighting.
That'll be the circuses bit. As for bread, there's still a bit more money-printing room before confidence collapses completely and we start on the Weimar re-run.
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"it'll be an afternoon phenomenon owing to the getting out of bed in the morning problems of the economically inactive"
Typical Tory garbage that has been going on for years - they are only unemployed because they deserve it etc.etc,
There's a difference between being unemployed and being economically inactive while of working age.
Few would deny that living off benefits has become a lifestyle choice, even goal, for a lot of the economically inactive.
Certainly the most entertaining. Just as we now have government approved - nay, sponsored - demos, we could have the same for riots.
As a card-carrying hippy from the 60s, many of my peers could not understand my delight at the advent of punk. For me, the essence of rock 'n roll is that it must UTTERLY piss off your parents. Punk another honourable entry in that pantheon, and in that spirit, I offer unto us all The Clash's wonderful White Riot.
Sing along, girls and boys, whilst tapping your (middle class) feet
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
Black people gotta lot a problems
But they dont mind throwing a brick
White people go to school
Where they teach you how to be thick
An everybodys doing
Just what theyre told to
An nobody wants
To go to jail!
All the powers in the hands
Of people rich enough to buy it
While we walk the street
Too chicken to even try it
Everybodys doing
Just what theyre told to
Nobody wants
To go to jail!
Are you taking over
Or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards
Or are you going forwards?
This scheme cannot possibly have been approved by the Union bosses who all seem to enjoy six-figure incomes (unless there is a get out clause for them somewhere in the small print).
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