Wednesday 23 May 2012

Slavery In The UK.

A man called Adrian Beecroft has appeared on the news here in the UK over the last couple of days due to his slave master attitude to workers. First of all he is rich, second, he is a substantial donor of money to the Conservative party. His occupation is listed as venture capitalist. In other words, he does no work himself, he lets his money do the work. The main focus of my post is however, that he was commissioned by David Cameron to produce a report on employment law. His report, if implemented would take us back to Victorian times. In effect, workers would have absolutely no rights. Employers would be able to sack anyone for no given reason whatsoever. He advocates an end to company pensions and also flexible working hours which would affect single parents who would no longer be able to work which would drive up the unemployment figures. He also wants to do away with the employees right to take their employer to a tribunal if they feel that they have been unfairly dismissed. Basically, he advocates doing away with workers rights altogether. He is actually saying  that this financial crisis is the fault of working people in this country and that we have to pay for it with our livelihoods.
Number one, this crisis is not of the workers doing, it is entirely the fault of rogue financial companies manipulating the markets through blatant fraud and criminality. The fact that nobody has been brought to justice for it, says more about the state of our justice system and the governments who oversee it. The major financiers messed up and our equally culpable government rewarded them by bailing them out using the ordinary people's tax money with no prospect of getting it back. We have, in effect, been sold into slavery by an elite who don't care about anyone but themselves. Beecroft is yet another parasite who feeds off of our austerity and rakes in the money. I would be very interested in having a look at his tax records.
Another very interesting piece of this story is the fact that Ed Milibland (that is how I see him) the leader of the Labour Party who are supposed to be the champions of the working class in this country, has not uttered one word condemning this slaves charter. To his credit, Vince Cable, the business minister has called the report "a load of rubbish" You can probably tell that I am extremely angry about this.
Cameron will implement this at his peril. The working people will only be pushed so far and then a breaking point will be reached and who knows what will happen. Don't forget that it is only nine months since last years riots. That is all I will say, but I am sure I will have more to say as this story unfolds.

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