Unfortunately that's just the start , management are targeting letters leaving them in the office and prioritising parcel delivery , removed overtime in the Christmas run up and bringing in agency workers at nearly twice a postman pay , bringing in owner drivers , basically it is a race to the bottom, they will strip all profitable assets and hand back a failing letters operation to the government for the tax payer to pick up the bill , I have worked half my life for this company and have been proud and astonished at what it can do and know that it can still be a service to the people of the UK if the management had the vision and guts to succeed but won't hold my breathe waiting for this government to step in
The government don't want to stop any of these strikes. They want to break the unions completely and weaponise them in the minds of the electorate. They've got nothing to lose in the polls and are sticking the boot in while they still can. Traitors and criminals.
I know that argument, and yes, the media would lap it up, but I was talking 'opposition' in the plural. All the parties should unite their messaging, be that inside (ideally) or or outside of the HoC. Walk out en masse if necessary. Maybe stand on Picket lines together. Start working for the people they are meant to serve rather than engaging in this embarrassing fiction that passes for a Parliament. At the moment, the UK is just sleepwalking into some ridiculous Dystopian Tory future.
That won't happen. The Lib Dems don't want any of it and get no coverage, for a start. The SNP see Labour as their largest serious opponent at the next election. UKIP/Farage's Party are the Tory right wing in everything but name.
Talking of opposition parties either working together or proving PNP's point, I think we have a clear winner! Thank you, @LabourLordsUK - you useless undemocratic bastards! (They abstained....)
Makes you wonder how they recover that fee. You know the speech will be bluster and waffle, moderately amusing, without any detail. Do enough people want to listen to that?
WTF - they abstained on a bill designed only to minimise their vote? I'd like to know their reasoning.
This morning, I heard on the radio that Theresa May has declared having charged £105,000 for a speech...
I guess she owns a transcript of a first/final draft of some historically significant speech that was made by Churchill. Thatcher etc.
