George Osborne (UK chancellor of exchequer) warns unions over strike plans

[UrbScotty]

Source: The Guardian

George Osborne today called unions the "forces of stagnation" and blamed them for holding back Britain's economic recovery.

He warned that the government was preparing to draw up contingency plans if its deficit-reduction timetable was disrupted by strikes.

Union leaders met on Friday to discuss the possibility of co-ordinating strikes against the public spending cuts and the TUC has organised a protest in London on 26 March, three days after the budget, which it hopes will attract 1 million demonstrators.

Osborne repeated earlier warnings that union law could be changed.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jan/30/george-osborne-ed-balls-economy

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Blaming the unions... Gee, where have I heard this story before?

[stockholmer]

1. Queenie, the sods in Parliament, and their Rothschild bankers in City all need an 'Egyptian moment'

[Hubert Flottz]

2. I believe it's coming.

Maybe even here too.

[LeftishBrit]

4. We don't need a Larouche moment, anyway - sorry but your post reminds me of that!

There are lots of City bankers (or wankers!) not associated with Rothschild ; and 'Queenie' has little power these days and is basically, as the saying goes, a 'highly paid model for a postage stamp'.

And bad as Cameron is, he is no Mubarak; i.e. he is an upper-class twit, not a brutal dictator.

We are already a democracy, if an imperfect one - and still to the left of America, let alone Egypt.

And yes, we do need protests and strikes (which we are now having - it's YEARS since people were so active here), hopefully culminating in a '1945 moment'. For those unfamiliar with British political history, 1945 was the year when the British defeated the Conservatives overwhelmingly at the polls, resulting in the rise of Clem Attlee and the Labour Party, bringing in massive socialist reforms including the establishment of the NHS.

[BenzoDia]

5. I was listening to this show about the NHS that discussed how sharing resources during the war

naturally extended to sharing of health care.

Felt good to listen to, we could use a bit more of that kind of national compassion here in the States (and elsewhere in the world obviously).

edit:
clarity

[stockholmer]

6. Queen's rep suspends Canada's parliament (doesn't sound like a powerless postage stamp model to me)

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/6712 (2008)

IN AN unprecedented move, the Canadian governor general, Michaelle Jean, used her 'royal' powers as a representative of Britain's Queen, to prorogue (suspend) the country's parliament until 26 January in order to allow the right wing prime minister, Stephen Harper, to cling on to power.

This undemocratic action enabled Harper's minority Conservative government to see off an opposition vote of no confidence that was set for 8 December. This vote was expected to lead to the collapse of the minority Conservative government, just two months after it was elected.


http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/04/Queens-rep-suspends-Canadian-Parliament/UPI-44831228392970/
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/12/2008124172130205704.html


In regards to the Rothschilds, (especially Lord Jacob Rothschild, the nominal controller of the British branch via proxy-based power at the Royal Bank of Scotland and his own private holdings) here is a flashback with a current twist involving the newly extended sentence-receiving ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-26/khodorkovsky-disappointed-at-medvedev-says-putin-is-vengeful.html ) Russian oliogarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.


Arrested oil tycoon passed shares to banker (2003)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2003/nov/02/20031102-111400-3720r/

"Mr. Rothschild now controls the voting rights on a stake in Yukos worth almost $13.5 billion, the newspaper said in a dispatch from Moscow.

Mr. Khodorkovsky owns 4 percent of Yukos directly and 22 percent through a trust of which he is the sole beneficiary, according to Russian analysts.

From the figures reported in the Sunday Times, it appeared Mr. Rothschild had received control of all Mr. Khodorkovsky’s shares.

The two have known each other for years “through their mutual love of the arts” and their positions as directors of the Open Russia Foundation, Yukos’ philanthropic branch, it said. "



nobody just gives away 13.5 billion because of a bloody 'mutual love of the arts'


and now this


Yukos warns BP investors Rosneft assets are 'stolen’ (2011)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/8262669/Yukos-warns-BP-investors-Rosneft-assets-are-stolen.html




sorry, but the Rothschilds still hold the whip hand in global banking, they just do it with a 3 century-refined sense of deep layering, knowing where all the skeletons are buried, incredibly complex inter-locking shell companies, and sheer power of scales of economy

[T_i_B]

7. Speaking of protests....

...there was yet another protest outside Sheffield town hall on saturday, this time with the unions, students and SWP lot all together. Dunno what it's like where you are but the number of people protesting and petitioning in Sheffield town centre has been growing and gowing over the past few months.

Of course the fact that Nick Clegg is a Sheffield MP makes protests in Sheffield all the more enticing for the organisers of these things.

[LeftishBrit]

8. Lots of protests in Oxford too!

The fact that we have lots of students from two universities is a big factor. Recently, Oxford University students occupied the Bodleian in protest against the tuition fees. And the local schoolchildren have been involved too - just as their predecessors in 2003 were the first people to take to the streets over the Iraq war.

And the university and college teachers' union, which in the past has generally been pretty inactive and weak (in this member's opinion) has seriously got off its collective behind, nationally and locally, and organized protests, petitions, supported student demos, etc.

Both Clegg and Cable chickened out of planned visits to Oxford a couple of months ago, giving feeble excuses, due to threats of student protests.

And it's not just students who are rebelling! A lot of people in Oxford and the outlying villages, who were never very political before and often probably voted Tory, are seriously up in arms over the draconian library closures proposed by the county council as a result of the government cuts to local authorities - not that council leader Keith Mitchell ever needs *much* of an excuse for cutting services!

Of course, London is THE protest centre, and there has been a lot of it!

I haven't seen such strong and active opposition in years - except with regard to the one issue of the war - and I expect more and more protest as time goes on.

[T_i_B]

9. There's a large student population in Sheffield as well.

Add into the mix a high unemployment rate, a lot of the work that is available being in the public sector and/or unionised, plus the fact that Sheffield is traditionally quite left wing anyway and it's a recipe for being buttonholed by people trying to get you to sign petitions against government cuts every time you go anywhere near the town hall.

The Council is currently Lib Dem, but there is a good chance that it will revert back to Labour before too long (given Labour's apalling track record in Sheffield, that might not be such a good thing though).

[frankieT]

3. "forces of stagnation" as opposed to establishment forces of what?

YEAH we saw how the establishment worked (i mean speculated and gambled) for the english people, sure by these standards unions are "forces of stagnation of the highest revenues". Hope to see them hanging high too.