Archive for the ‘Vince Cable’ Category

No Pain No Gain

19-06-11

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Ed ‘Damien’ Balls is at it again – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13826271 We think this is called distraction politics – distraction that is from other stories about him.

What Balls and most commentators fail to mention was that it was not the red haired Scotsman that pre-empted further discussions with the unions but in fact the unions who decided on a whim to call a strike – and why? Now Wilt is not a huge fan of Nick Robinson of the BBC (Guido derides him all the time) but he does have connections and can give not unreasoned analysis or comment as here:   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13809285

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Me thinks union members need to be a little more cautious about being taken in by the rhetoric of their highly paid leaders. What may lay behind some government thinking is the aim to curb union powers and enforce a new law whereby no strike can take place without more than 40% of union members approve it. Presently the threshold is based on the numbers that vote.

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Meanwhile enjoy this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

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Posted by Wilt on June 19, 2011

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A dose of reality

06-06-11

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Guido and Wilt are at one on this issue: http://order-order.com/2011/06/06/the-war-on-pilgrims-goes-international/ as are the vast majority of sensible thinking people – which obviously excludes those full-time paid union officials at public expense.

Now if the unions want full time officials then we suggest that they pay them themselves and then we will see what the membership might think.

Meanwhile poor old Vince Cable http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8559306/Vince-Cable-heckled-at-union-conference.html is taking on his own war of words with the unions. He threatens new laws against strike action. Bring it on says Wilt.

What is the point of striking? There will be, as Wilt has long predicted, huge cuts in non-jobs, a realistic pension scheme, a freeze (i.e. cut) in salaries and a severe curtailment of outlandish conditions of service.

Before you know it, there will be some kind of equality between the public and private sectors.

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Wilt being a businessman, not a trade union member and unable to claim sick pay or take paid holidays believes these civil servants and local authority persons to have taken the piss for too long. Furthermore, Wilt has to finance his own office costs, heating/lighting and his own pension fund – neither does he have (as do public servants) a whole infrastructure of publicly funded finance officers/accountants to sort out his accounts, payments of wages and sort the tax return. Wilt does all that, at his expense/own time, in addition to the day job.

These public servants need a good dose of reality. That will cure them.

Wilt (grrrr)

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Posted by Wilt on June 6, 2011

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A few political good guys

05-07-09

There are some good people in the political class and Wilt intends to highlight some of them. Read and see interviews with some of those Wilt thinks merit the test of reasonableness, whatever that means!

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Posted by Wilt on July 5, 2009

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