Riot season

[Barneyboy]

(3 June 2013, 09:58)NorthernRaider Wrote:

(3 June 2013, 09:53)Barneyboy Wrote: your wife is paid a good wage because the nurses went on strike in the the late 80s I think it was

My wife is paid a modest wage because she has worked hard for 35 year working her way up from a war clerk to enroled nurse, to RGN, to RSCN, To RSCN Dip, to BA Hons and averages over 60 hours a week work but is paid for 37.5

LABOUR cut her pay £300 PM, LABOUR refused to increase her milage allowance after nearly doubling the cost of petrol.

Just phoned her to check and she says she nor her coleagues have ever gone on strike, but some worked to rule in the 80s but no patient care was affected. Unlike miners, etc.

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Oh yes and let us all never forget the constant wave of news paper articles from 96 to 2005 of hospitals making nurses especially newly qualified nurses redundant whilst importing nurses from the fillipines. Now who was in charge and which unions objected??

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And on the radio this morning we have Labour saying they want to cut Winter Fuel Payments to pensioners, particularily those pensioners who paid the most taxes over their working lives. Whilst the bone idle scum who pissed away their money in the Labour workies club during their working years and now live in state subsidised housing get to keep their money.

I'm dying to see how you two justify punishing those who work hard, save, set money aside for their old age, compaed to the feckless who did not bother. And lets not forget the welfare state has existed since 1948 so every living pensioner has had time and opportunity to save a bit extra.

don't think a lot of people on here would call 37.000 pound a year modest wage NR