Strikes.

[gulliver1]

The Tory Govt is completely to blame as strikes reach worst level for 30 years.
As hundreds of thousands of workers including nurses,teachers , train drivers and even Barristers went on strike.There is no doubt that this Con Covt Coupled up with Brexit is to blame with the cost-of -living crisis especially mortgage repayments hitting the roof, where workers have been squeezed like never before .Is the UK heading for a summer of discontent.???.

[Gromit]

Well the predicted (by me) Winter of Discontent never materialised, but the number of days lost to strikes is unacceptably high, and further damages our already fragile economy.
The Government seem to accept the costs and damage and doing nowt to solve it, hoping to limp to the General Election.

[gulliver1]

The number of lost working days because of strikes, are getting higher than the Days of Thatcher "Gawd elp us".

[Gromit]

Probably not as high as the Winter of Discontent I under Callaghan’s Labour.

[DTCwordfan]

Far from it, unless your mate Boris is breeding more unemployed.

[gulliver1]

It's astonishing to realise that 4.1 million working days were lost because of strikes in 1989 under the Tories. When Thatcher was in Power . It seems like strikes only happen when the Cons are trying to Con the working class then.

[bobbinwales]

Er see winter of discontent.gulliver you have a knack of making eternal Labour supporters like me want to get you to take your blinkers off

[gulliver1]

Even Border force workers.Royal mail workers, and Driving test examiners have gone on strike. Because of this Shower.

[gulliver1]

" You've never had it so bad"

[bobbinwales]

Goverment is a shower...but most private sector employees like me are not striking were just making the best of difficult times and looking elsewhere as vacancy exist if we want bettervwages

[ynnafymmi]

Same as the SNP eejits up here in Scotland gulliver.Who will rid us of these nationalist heid-bangers?

[Old_Geezer]

Still trying and failing to blame Brexit ? That's sad.

The world has issues, everyone needs to accept this isn't a boom time and accept the life quality fall which is temporary.

But most seem to have grown soft and just want to withdraw thrir labour in protest.

IMO this is not so much a case of government deliberately not helping the vulnerable, and the people justifiably complaining as a result, but of folk no longer prepared to roll with reality, and accepting both life's highs and it's lows.

That's not to say there ain't folk doing ok by manipulating the situation, but there are always some of those. Come the revolution ...

[Gromit]

OG,
It is not the case that people have suddenly got soft. This has happened in the past. At times when the Government has let inflation get out of hand, people want paying more just to stand still. It happened under Heath, and Healey’s Chancellorship, and to a lesser extent under Thatcher.
Inflation is a scourge and very dangerous for Governments. Sunak as Chancellor and the BOE were very slow to react to the current problem.

[William51]

I suspect we are heading for eighteen months of discontent until the next general election. Because this government has lost its authority and will just bumble along until it is voted out.

[Peter Pedant]

well the wonder is Gully that all the usual suspects have stopped swearing at you
( you know - big nose ! know-all ! pig-face! and other hurtful insults that keep people awake ( woke see) at night)

[youngmafbog]

//I suspect we are heading for eighteen months of discontent until the next general election//

Oh so a lib/lab coalition will pay the strikers what they are asking then?

That'll help inflation - not.

More tax rises too then - That'll make them the highest tax revenue takers not the Tories.

Think.

[gulliver1]

PP 11.47 lol.

[webbo3]

nothing to do with wanting more money.
https://ibb.co/hKWsmmg