On November 30th 2011, around 2 million public sector workers came out on strike to protest at the Government’s proposals to increase pension contributions, delay retirement age to 68 and pay less pension at the end of it. That all seems fair and proper, right? No, not to me either.
Today 750, 000 public sector workers were on strike against the savage cuts proposed by this completely out of touch coalition government, intent on their implementation of massively unpopular and entirely unnecessary cuts to public sector pensions. With their claims that parents are against strikes and their ideological agenda masquerading as economic necessity, the government and their lackeys show exactly how out of touch they are with public feeling and if today is anything to go by, there is a whole load of hurt in store for them in the future.
As if that wasn’t enough, Ed Milliband’s condemnation of the strikers demonstrates that all three political parties are out of touch with ordinary working people and working class people are left without any representation in mainstream politics. A sad day for democracy.
These photos are from todays march in Brighton and a subsequent Brighton Uncut action against the more accurate perpetrators of the current fiscal crisis: Vodafone, Boots and Barclays bank, all of whom owe the treasury more in unpaid taxes than is being cited as the deficit needing to be reclaimed by slashing pensions.
