1,000 striking public sector workers vow more action over pensions row

“@ Arthur2011
Spot on, very very VERY few people start a business in order to offer people jobs, They do it, 99.999% of the time in order to increase their own wealth,
Nothing wrong with that in principle, provided they pay their employees "a fair days pay for a fair days work" although, to ask for that since Camerons "arrogant posh boys" came to power, apparently makes you a "left wing extremist" to some Tories,
I wonder who it is that encourages us to believe that employers are always the ones doing US a 'favour' when we work for them?

stokeandvale,
Now remember to bow to the master and to tug your forelock, and whatever you do don't ask questions of your 'betters' and most importantly, 'know your place'”

“@stokeandvale,

So you think that Bamford or Coates give a monkeys about who is starving? They only employ people to increase their own wealth, not to help anyone else. If they could replace their employees with a cheaper option, say machines, they would do at the drop of a hat. And that my dear little gullible fool, is a fact.”

“@stokeandvale,

So you think that Bamford or Coates give a monkeys about who is starving? They only employ people to increase their own wealth, not to help anyone else. If they could replace their employees with a cheaper option, say machines, they would do at the drop of a hat. And that my dear little gullible fool, is a fact.”

“@ Wiverns,
YES, I am aware that Galbraith was an American, Doesnt make the quote any less relevant to todays British conservative though,

and as far as "That'll send Johntoe into paroxysms of indignant fury"

WELL, it's a great 'insight' into the Wiverns, 'mind',
See, that is your 'opinion' of the way the world IS and the way the world should be, and I say you are perfectly entitled to hold that opinion or point of view, no matter how strongly I disagree with said opinion/s, and, provided that opinion isn't an offensive personal attack against another 'poster' or posted to deliberately stir up hatred, Then I would ALWAYS defend your right to hold and to 'post' (express) said opinion,

Without reporting you to the moderators,...."etc"

It's probably because I appreciate and value living in a free country, and I understand that a very imporant part of "freedom" means that people have the RIGHT to say things we might not agree with, Because, if they don't,.... Then, it's not 'freedom' is it?

You spout the usual right wing BS that I've listened to for decades, "the poor hate the rich because they're jealous" NO, I don't 'hate' the rich, and I'm certainly not 'jealous' I don't begrudge anyone money if they've worked for it, best of luck to them, even if they 'won' it on the lottery, (OK I would be a tad jealous)

and the other utter BS, "If you get off your backside and 'work hard' you will have money" YEAH? well my parents should have been millionaire's then, because my mother never had a day off work from the day she left school at 14 (other than for childbirth and the last couple of months of her life due to becoming a 'scrounger' through illness) till she died at 49 years old, due to being 'poisoned' by the filth in 'pot banks'
My father, straight from school and into the army where he served his country all over the world for over 22 years, the FIRST, and only time he 'signed on the dole' was in 1982 when 'that woman' destroyed our industries, That was the only time I saw my father cry, He died a broken man at 63 years old, and without a pot to 'p' in,
So don't try telling me that 'the poor' are poor because they're 'lazy'

and by the way, for ALL your 'smugness' you aren't 'rich' you aren't EVEN 'well off' I doubt you even qualify for 'middle class', To put it into perspective, The gap between the middle class and the poor is tiny, in comparison to the gap between the RICH and the middle class which is VAST,

You are a damn site closer to ME than you are to the rich, who, incidentally, depend on, and laugh at 'upstart oiks' like YOU to hide their existence from the 'prols' who stupidly believe that people like YOU are 'rich' the laughable part is, YOU believe it too.

AND..... you can't take it with you, We ALL end up 'level' sooner or later,”

“Tsk, tsk Wivens.
The usual self-aggrandising claptrap.
You Netherenders, eh!”

“Tonyjohnt

You really hate the wealthy dont you.

its a good job all those people who work Mr Bamford (JCB) dont feel the same or Mr Coates (Stoke - Bet365) or a lot of peolpe would be hungry.

What business and how many people do you employ Tonyjohnt? (answer please).........”

“It's been a strange day Speccy - I agree with you!

Of course Wiven's is trolling. Although he seems to either fail or refuse to understand that extra security, gated communities for the wealthy and and more jails will COST - far more than building a more egalitarian society. I would have thought that mattered to him.

To see that COST measures everything reasserts the old maxim - you know the price of everything and the value of nothing!

Well spoken, but stupid regardless.”

“Do you really think that the likes of Cameron and Clegg started with nothing, pulled up their socks and worked damned hard to get what they have? And I'm sure that you worked hard for.your 350k inheritance. I do wonder how you will get your imaginary 8 berth yacht on a canal.”

“Do you really think that the likes of Cameron and Clegg started with nothing, pulled up their socks and worked damned hard to get what they have? And I'm sure that you worked hard for.your 350k inheritance.”

“@E_D_Wivens

You said;

"…I was skint once too, who isn't at some time in their lives?"

David Cameron perhaps? I wouldn't have thought that Prince Charles has ever been short of a bob or two either. And as for HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan…”