TUC conference

TUC conference, Either the BBC reported it inaccurately or most of the delegates to that conference were really THAT spineless.

How a room of delegates can be told by Alistair Darling that no he isn't listening, no he doesn't care and accuse them of causing inflation and sit and politely clap him, I don't know!

Another opportunity wasted at TUC conference for trade unions as a united group to meet the Labour government with silence and derisory booing for their complete disregard of our concerns.

I really wish supercilious fawning patsies like Brandan Barber and Dave Prentis would wake up and realise that there is no light at the end of the tunnel Brown nosing.

All we can expect from another labour government is more privatisation, more real terms pay cuts and an even greater group of upper class twits to thumb their noses at us.

I have never understood what strategy or plan labour loving union leaders like Dave Prentis have but I really wish they'd let me in on it.

PCS got good coverage I was happy with. The BBC showed PCS highlighting concerns over inflation by showing how much staple food goods like bread and milk have went up.

It's going to take a hell of a lot more work from us though to persuade the public of our just cause for a bigger pay rise and a government U-Turn.

Although it isn't right, Many low paid private sector workers would have looked at the 6 'o' clock BBC news today, saw the £26,000 to £28,000 wages that teachers and firefighters get and thought to themselves "I earn far less than them, Why should they get paid more money out of my taxes!"

In my opinion we need to make our case with the public better so we can counteract this type of argument.

First of all we need to shout as loud and as often as possible about the fact that AA's and AO's in the civil service are lucky to earn £16,000 let alone £28,000. Often to do important work with little or no apreciation, often with a negative social conatation.

Secondly we need to argue that if taxes were collected properly and HM Revenue and Customs resourced properly we would have the money to pay us a decent pay rise.

We don't need to put up taxes (although in my opinion we should do for high earners) we just need to administrate the system properly!

Anyway enough of me and high horse.

I shall hopefully brighten up this page soon with a decent picture or myself and a better layout.

Until my next post, do what Dave Prentis does and keep thinking "it can't get worse than this, it can't get worse than this, The Tories will be worse, the tories will be worse...."