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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