Politicide of a nation

Yeah Hi, yada yada yada.

I'm still on a semi politic bent this day, and I'll throw my opinion at ya. (for your benefit I may add)

Industrial reform !!!!
we're about to go through the biggest shakeup this country has seen in fifty years. The incumbent is going to smash apart what Unions (not all bad) and some very brave people have taken 100 yrs to put together, all in the name of progress and the betterment of the working stiff.

It wouldn't take too many fingers to be able to count how many positive industrial changes any conservative government has ever rushed through parliament. And just to give us some cake with our icecream, we are also going to foot the bill for an extremely exorbinent advertising campaign to tell us this is all for our benefits and is for the worker not the bosses.

Now I have been called a cinic in the past but come on, what an entirely opportunistic time to bulldoze it through parliment.

• We have no effective opposition party, which is sadder than it first appears, because the opposition party is the political arm of the union movement in this country and is so quiet on this matter it is frightening.
• The current feeling amongst your average voter is one of dont rock the boat, they are blinded by a feeling of inpending doom, with terrorist attacks forcast for our shores, inflated petrol prices, eninant tax hikes, a falling property market and with just about everybody financialy streched to the max.
• The union movement have so distanced them self from the average family and seem so radical to a generation who have had it so good because of them, that they seem irrelevent.
• I really get the feeling that a lot of people just dont have the energy left to argue anymore, nobody want's to give their employer any reason to give them the flick. Its better to be a small target and not make a fuss.

A sad state of affairs indeed. While as a nation we all seem brash and loud yobs, actually we have always been a bit conservative under the skin, but I think in the past we have kept a pretty good balance. Not anymore though, a hush has fallen over the land, its with tails tucked firmly between legs we go about our business now.

And you know what the real sad thing is, in two or three or maybe more years time, when conditions are so erroded; some brave people will rebuild the union movement and start on an 100 year battle to get back what we have today.

Humans, Learn from history for F@#$ sake.

CYA (while I'm still allowed to write)