Striking back

Strikes planned for 30 June could bring 750,000 people out onto the streets of the UK in protest against the unfairness of the “austerity cuts” as, predictably, the poor are hit proportionately harder (ref) in the pan-european orgy of opportunistic disaster capitalism that has followed the financial collapse. The UK government response is to threaten to tighten the laws against industrial action to a level more restrictive even than that introduced by Generalissimo Thatcher, rather than to resolve the financial crisis  more fairly by eliminating corporate and individual tax-avoidance and by reducing the grotesque military budget to a level appropriate to a small over-populated country in a state of chronic industrial decline.
On the other hand, people may just stay in out of the rain and watch the tennis at Wimbledon instead.