04-11-2014, 01:03 PM
Martin White Wrote:It's probably worth another thread to describe the twisted logic in this situation: a legal trade union holds a legal vote for strike action, and the Tories complain it's not valid because the turnout was only 40%.
Meanwhile, the Police and Crime Commissioners which had turnouts in the region of 14% (in other words, the "winner" only needed 7% of the total vote) are perfectly valid expressions of democracy. The turnout for the South Yorkshire PCC election (following the resignation of the incumbent after the Rotherham child abuse scandal) actually went down from 2012. IIRC the election last week was about 0.5% down on the poll in 2012.
The other component to the war on the poor is the war on organized labour. The thing the Tories fear more than anything is organized labour and an informed and educated populace. There are the same attempts to remove worker's human rights and disenfranchise trade unions in all the Anglo countries.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.