police on strike in 1919
police not on strike today but still standing around doing nothing about crime
Officers vote over strikes and call for Home Secretary to quit
"Gordon Brown refused to back down over the police pay award yesterday, despite a vote by rank-and-file officers to stage a nationwide ballot to seek the right to go on strike".
But if police officers decided to go to the nation to ask for the right tostrike, what would they say?
ReplyDeleteI for one would reply:
Sorry, but I was making my way out to the polling booths but another emergency cropped up inbetween and I was short of manpower to deal with the situation so I could not attend your vote.......
Innit so true?
Gordon Brown, or at least Jacqui Smith, has to go.
ReplyDeleteSomehow with these muppets, our economy turns on police and prison officer pay.
Of course, the endless billions pissed away on management consultants for managers who couldn't manage a piss up in a pub, doesn't have anything to do with the state of the economy or government, does it?
The ting is, the government made a deal. McNutsack, Brown and Smith, supposed Labour leaders, think it's acceptable to reneg on done deals with workers.
I hope the police federation lodge a judicial review because the government's decision to screw keeping up with inflation pay rises out of people who put their lives on the line on a daily basis is a god damned disgrace.
I'm prepared to bet that the issue will be resolved by May - which is when the prison officers are planning to walk out, and forces up and down the country have been asked to supply staff to fulfill the role of emergency cover.
ReplyDeleteI have suggested to some of my colleagues (although not in such a way as to leave myself open to a six-month stretch for cauusing disaffection in the ranks) that we should be supported the POA in their pay issue, rather than undermining them.
Despite being 200 quid down on my expected pay for the Xmas period, I am still able to chortle at the suggestion that withholding a total of £30million from 140,000 or so coppers will save the economy from collapse, whilst it is still okay to pump £25billion into Northern Rock, just to make sure that the Chancellor hasn't got to renegotiate his mortgage...
MECS: According to the Andrew Marr Show this morning, you cannot have the money because it is needed for the War on Terror. This being the case, all we have to do is stop this silly war!
ReplyDeleteI think those officers "standing round doing nothing" look to be being briefed. S'pose that's not within your editorial remit though, eh? :o)
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