On 10/09/15 10:37, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Wonderful! I love the plot line where a man holds a gun to your head and
tells you to rob a bank or else, and then claims it was all your own
doing, for selfish reasons of self preservation!

Fighting for better pay or conditions of service is holding a 'gun to your
head'. Or, of course the more usual 'holding the country to ransom'.

Broadly, yes.

It has always mazed me how the Left can in the same sentence demonise a
corporation that has a de facto monopoly as a profiteering monster, and
praise a Union that has a de facto monopoly as 'all about democracy;'


But
then hyperbole does tend to be a tool of the extreme right wing.

No, its a tool of the extreme left actually. Projection of this sort is
normal for people suffering from NPD, Dave.



Did you actually live through that period?


If you can call it living. Never been poorer or more miserable.


Of course it's far better now. Loads of the poorest on zero hours
contracts at minimum wage. Just what big business ordered.


Which is of course the DIRECT result of minimum wage legislation brought
in by socialists.


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New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your heart in
the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your hand is in
someone else's pocket.