30 November 2011

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

A cold, wet run beside the loch this morning, as the snow line creeps down from the hilltops.
The UK news is dominated by today’s national strike by an estimated 2 million public sector workers over planned changes to pensions. Whilst few people could dispute the need for some change, the proposals include what is in effect a pay reduction, which will have a serious impact on the many workers in the sector already receiving low levels of pay. Our affluent and privileged government leaders seem to relish the prospect of the strike as a distraction from their vicious and clumsy handling of the economic crisis and, more crucially, as justification for further dismantling of the nation’s public services. Polly Toynbee provides an excellent and succinct summary in today's Guardian (ref).

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