Up the workers!

I’ve never been on strike in my life, not even when that cow Thatcher was in power. I’ve worked for over 32 years and still have a few years to go before I’m meant to retire and take the pension I’ve been paying for since I turned 18, though too many years (months, actually) to be allowed to retire at 60 under the current Government’s proposals. Meanwhile, 30-odd years of pension contributions will be handed to a Private Equity firm to piss away in the direction of its shareholders, all connected to the Tory party.

In the last 18 months, there has been talk of such things as rolling back the EU Working Time Directive, making it easier for employers to sack people, denying workers the right of recourse to an Industrial Tribunal, repealing Health & Safety and Trades Union laws, privatising the NHS and God knows what else. Britain is being frogmarched back in time: not to the 1940s, 30s or 20s, but to the 1800s. That rumbling sound you hear is Victorian social reformers rolling in their graves. This is where we are going, so fasten your seatbelts; we’re in for a bumpy ride.

Perhaps it’s time to have a North African- or Middle-Eastern-style revolution in this country? Who wouldn’t go out onto the streets and honk their car horns or toot on their vuvuzelas when the revolutionaries arrest Thatcher and hang her on live TV, or someone breaks Cameron’s legs when he’s running away then finishes the job before the ambulance turns up? Let’s not spare the LibDems in this political cleansing. It’s a shame there’s no statue of Nick Clegg to be toppled in Sheffield (though Sheffield Forgemasters may be making one for that purpose) and that Danny Alexander is the tosser, not the caber at his local Highland games.

No, sadly, we have to do it all at the ballot box, and with the LibDems having sold their soul (and principles) for the sake of a ride in a Ministerial car, we’ll never see PR at Westminster, leaving the election odds stacked against democracy for another 90-odd years. The Murdoch media and The Mail, The Express and The Telegraph have such an influence on public AND political opinion that Thatcher’s generation of cruel, selfish bastards is continuing to do her work for her, exactly 20 years after she was removed from power. Some of them are on the Labour benches.