Double-digit inflation is here to stay for home essentials
OUR new PM was the worst
Chancellor ever (until rapidly eclipsed by Kwasi Kwarteng). Even pre-p(l) andemic, Rishi Sunak had discovered the Magic Money Tree, delivering a horribly Keynesian ‘spend now, pay later’ budget.
Well, we’re all paying for it now, through double-digit inflation, which is here to stay regarding essentials such as energy and basic food.
Sunak’s Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is just as incompetent. It was he who in 2018, as Health Secretary, headed a three-day pandemic exercise based on flu. The results were duly locked away; triple gins all round, as ‘Private Eye’ put it.
In his next incarnation, in charge of Defence, he was responsible for the embarrassment of ‘Tankergate’. Having ordered the seizing of an Iranian tanker at Gib, the Iranians promptly retaliated by seizing a British one in the Gulf.
With Sunak and Hunt at the helm, don’t expect any great improvement in our fortunes quit the union because I was angry that they would not represent me.
The unions seem willing to take my money but when I want their help it is either non-existent or very slow in coming. In many cases, I think trade union officials are in with management or lined up to become management at some point and do not wish to rock the boat.
The unions I have been in also have very little understanding of autism or related issues and again have been very unhelpful in this aspect. As a worker with a disability, I have no faith in the trade unions to help me should issues arise within a workplace setting.
Garry Haldane wants people to join trade unions but my experience with them would certainly make me think twice before joining one again. If you are unhappy with your contract or have injuries within a workplace environment which are not your fault then contacting an employment lawyer may be more beneficial than contacting a trade union.
The trade unions of the 1970s were wonderful but Mrs Thatcher and successive Tory governments have destroyed the unions and their power. If unions are to become more powerful again then we either need a Labour Government who will reverse the current trade union legislation and if they are not prepared to do it then we need to find political parties or candidates who will.