Dear All
There is a campaign for Scottish
independence on the go.
It maybe a botched campaign, a failed
campaign, a campaign on its knees, but Alex Salmond is still trying to see if
Scots will back him.
What the ‘jolly fat man’ of Scottish
politics fails to realize is that the independence campaign is fact already
over; the major battle of the mindset of Scots has already been fixed.
The answer is No!
It’s No yesterday, No today and still No on
the 18th September 2014.
As part of the ‘bribe’ culture that the
Scottish National Party is running, most noticeably with the bedroom tax,
Scottish workers are to be tempted by John Swinney, who just might not follow George Osborne's controversial
move to end automatic annual pay rises for the thousands of public-sector
workers.
The promise of ‘jam today’ but the reality
further down the line is that the jam is going to be removed elsewhere.
The idea is quite simple, the SNP hope to try
and create ‘vote caches’ by a temporary measure to protect the living standards
of Scotland's 570,000 civil servants, teachers, nurses, prison officers and
police officers.
The other part of the idea is to try and
set a mood that there clear political water between Holyrood and Westminster in
the run-up to the September 2014 independence referendum.
But what is given with one hand will
certainly be taken away with the other, and that means cuts to services and
cuts to budgets.
People at the bottom of society, the most
disadvantaged will be worse off, their waiting times for help will increase or
it could be the services they depend on will simply be phased out or scaled
back drastically. The public sector would be buying into a pig in a poke, their
workloads would dramatically increase.
And it would come as yet to unknown cost to
the taxpayer in Scotland.
Down in Sunny England, George Osborne is
heading towards what we have seen in Spain, Greece, Italy, and in a host of
other countries around the globe, protests in the streets, think ‘winter of
discontent’ but running all year round.
The Tories are on a collision course with
millions of public-sector workers across Britain by planning to cut another
144,000 jobs in 2015/16.
If they think this will see them into
another term, it is barmy thinking, the gag of national unity government with
the Lib Dems taking the flak as Tories stand back and use them as a human
sandbags is wearing thin.
In his Commons statement on his spending
review yesterday, Mr Osborne said continuing austerity would see another £11.5
billion shaved off UK Government spending for the 2015 election year.
We are all in this together is exactly
true, UKIP, the new kid on the block will possibly do well, the worse things
get, the more people will be looking for someone to blame. If you are a Tory MP
in Westminster, you must rightly fear for your seat at this point.
As to John Swinney, his line when asked if
he would follow suit in his September was:
“We'll set out our approach to public
sector pay in the budget as we always do but when you are undergoing a process
of public-sector reform it's important to take your employees with you."
The question becomes how is this paid for,
cut to services, cuts to budgets and people not being replaced, less staff equals
more work, it isn’t going to be nirvana at the work place.
Trade unions have been quick to brand the
Coalition's move to end automatic pay "nasty", "deeply
unfair" and "scapegoating" public sector workers.
And they are right, banking brought the
West to its knees but the people responsible not only have committed the
crimes, but they have also gotten away with ‘the loot’.
As part of the spending review for 2015/16,
Osborne announced these measures:
A new welfare cap to include a range of
benefits but not the state pension;
Stripping expatriate pensioners in warm
countries of the right to claim winter fuel payments;
New rules on benefits such as a seven-day
wait before claiming and producing a CV;
Ensuring 100,000 non-English speaking
claimants take up language lessons with the state picking up the £100 million
annual bill.
The Chancellor claims the UK was
"moving out of intensive care and from rescue to recovery", what the
questions remain about the ‘quality of life’ for the many.
Spending plans for 2015/16; which see some Government
Departments face another 10% cut in their budget;, this cannot continue to go
on.
Some areas have been spared such as schools
and the NHS in England, overseas aid and the intelligence services.
Ed Balls, Labour Shadow Chancellor, said
the new round of cuts represented a "comprehensive failure" of the
Coalition's economic strategy, saying:
"This out-of-touch Chancellor has
failed on living standards, growth and the deficit, and families and businesses
are paying the price for his failure."
How many people must be sick of ping pong
politics, it is time that people took their vote and moved it elsewhere so that
they actually get elected representatives that do represent them.
How many times do we have to go through the
cycle of boom and bust followed by attacks on the public sector?
One thing is certain, although George
Osborne clearly enjoys fucking it into the poor under the cover of austerity,
he might be laughing on the other side of his face, if people say vote
UKIP.
And UKIP is able to tap into their voter base.
And UKIP is able to tap into their voter base.
As to any proposed ‘standing up for
Scottish workers’ crap, there is an independence campaign still on which is
running on fumes, post 214, watch out for a remarkable change of “it's important to take your employees with
you” by the SNP....... just fade away!
Austerity is set to continue!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
1 comment:
Another day, more assertions, more manure.
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