Credit for this goes to the South East Essex R&C PCS website.....
GEORGE SAYS THANKS
George Osborne last night sent his grateful thanks to the 21% of HMRC staff who came to work on Thursday 10th.
"Its really appreciated," he said from his £million+ mansion last night. "Every person who came to work made the industrial action taken by their colleagues that little bit less effective."
"And of course, it wasn't just yesterday's efforts that you hampered," he went on. "Every person who doesn't take action is sending me a clear message - that they will just roll over and take anything I care to dish out. It makes me that much more confident that next year we will be able to take even more without them making a peep. We're taking about twenty quid from everyone, every month, forever starting this year, and I was going to take another twenty next year as well - but since so many people seem happy with what I'm doing, I'm going to put proposals before Parliament to make that forty instead - or fifty, maybe."
Osborne admitted however that not everyone came in to work willingly.
"Of course some people would find it financially hard to take action," he said, pondering how to spend his £6,000 a month take-home pay. "Its all part of the plan. I let my banker buddies screw up the economy (while they made millions), then I bailed them out with your money, and now I'm taking even more from you to pay for it! Its all part of the plan to keep the little people downtrodden and to break their spirit. And of course the best part is that sure - they'd have lost about eighty quid each, but if they'd ALL taken action, then I'd have had to re-think taking the couple hundred quid I'll be grabbing from them over the course of the year. Not to mention the couple hundred more I'll grab next year - and the year after that."
Osborne was also amused at some of the reasons people gave for crossing picket lines.
"'I'm the only person in today, and there's a lot of work to do?'", he chortled. "What a fantastic way of looking at things! Those are the people I love the best, because they are the ones that mean the action their colleagues took had the least effect! The whole point of action is for work not to be done, so I'm dead chuffed that so many people just don't get it!" he smiled, revealing his double rows of pointed fangs.
And there was no hope for the future, Osborne insisted.
"While we can keep the people poor and tired and miserable, then our plans are working," he said, removing his contacts to reveal the yellow goat-slit pupils beneath. "We will keep on taking, year after year, as they swallow our lies about 'all being in it together' - of course we're not, there's the little people who do our bidding, and the sociopathic elite who get rich from the fruits of their labour."
His flesh peeling away to reveal the molten bronze beneath, Osborne gave his last thoughts.
"And until enough of them stand up and say 'enough', there is nothing that can stop us," he roared, spreading his wings of darkness tipped with venomous claws. "We will keep on, and on, and on, pushing retirement back, and back, and back until they are all so worn out and used up that we'll only be paying them their pittance of a pension for a couple months after we finally allow them to rest their shattered carcasses.
"Now tremble before me, worthless subjects, and despair!"
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Thursday, 15 March 2012
WHAT A PRESIDENT SHOULD DO
When I was selected as the Left Unity Presidential candidate I thought very hard about what a President should be and what sort of President the Group needs in what are difficult times.
Firstly, and probably most importantly, I think the members need to know who their President is. Sitting behind a desk in Clapham and hiding behind an email address has never been my style. How are we are supposed to represent members if we do not talk to them? How are we supposed to gain their support if we do not explain what is going on to them? So, if elected as President I intend to be visible and accountable, I intend to engage properly with Branches and members. I do have a Departmental job, I do understand from first hand experience the problems we all face in our day to day working lives.
A lot has been said about the words “sexy political”. It is important that we always understand that we represent members in Revenue & Customs Group first and foremost, but that must include involving ourselves fully in the national unions campaigns. For me the words “sexy political” refer to pay, privatisation, pensions, job losses and office closures. These are political decisions being taken by the Government. Having spoken at several AGMs this year, it is clear to me that our members expect us to be doing the “sexy political” stuff. They expect their union to be fighting as hard as it can to protect us from privatisation, protect our pensions and secure us a proper pay raise. That said, we must never forget the bread and butter issues. I have spoken to many reps across the country, and I know how hard they work in personal cases, advice to members, local negotiations, health and safety and the learning agenda to name but a few. To suggest our reps do not do this simply undermines them in a time when we really need everyone working together for the same ends.
I know that our union is built on the membership. Without the membership we do not have a union. I know our members are aware of the issues that effect them on a day to day basis, and I know they have the right to change union policy through motions to conference. Whilst I may not agree with every motion that goes to Conference and at times I may think a Conference is unhelpful, members have the right to submit what they like to AGMs and to Conference. That is called to democracy, and democracy is the cornerstone of our union. To suggest motions are “ludicrous” frankly insults those members who do pen motions and those members who agree them at AGMs.
Finally, I think the President needs an understanding of campaigning. I’ve not seen that this year from the current incumbent. I’ve been involved in campaigns for many years – not always wearing my PCS hat. I understand tactics and strategies; there is no point in taking up a campaign if you don’t have a plan. We have to campaign on a raft of issues, be that protecting our office from closure, be that protecting us from losing our jobs or be that protecting us from the horrors of privatisation. I know that if we sit back and do nothing, then bad things will happen.
So essentially, if elected, I aim to be a President you can trust. A President that will try to do what is right by the membership. A President that wont accept second best in negotiations and a President that will stand shoulder with the membership during disputes and campaigns.
I know the amount of work Left Unity GEC members do during the course of the year, sometimes in their own time and at own expense. I know that it is Left Unity GEC members who provide the ideas and drive to make things better.
I’ve never hidden my Left Unity membership and am proud to be able to consider myself a socialist. I do not subscribe to the view that others stand outside of other factions or groupings, I just know that we are open and honest enough to tell you we do. Any candidate who puts a list of names at the bottom of their election address are standing as part of a grouping. To say otherwise is hiding the facts.
Firstly, and probably most importantly, I think the members need to know who their President is. Sitting behind a desk in Clapham and hiding behind an email address has never been my style. How are we are supposed to represent members if we do not talk to them? How are we supposed to gain their support if we do not explain what is going on to them? So, if elected as President I intend to be visible and accountable, I intend to engage properly with Branches and members. I do have a Departmental job, I do understand from first hand experience the problems we all face in our day to day working lives.
A lot has been said about the words “sexy political”. It is important that we always understand that we represent members in Revenue & Customs Group first and foremost, but that must include involving ourselves fully in the national unions campaigns. For me the words “sexy political” refer to pay, privatisation, pensions, job losses and office closures. These are political decisions being taken by the Government. Having spoken at several AGMs this year, it is clear to me that our members expect us to be doing the “sexy political” stuff. They expect their union to be fighting as hard as it can to protect us from privatisation, protect our pensions and secure us a proper pay raise. That said, we must never forget the bread and butter issues. I have spoken to many reps across the country, and I know how hard they work in personal cases, advice to members, local negotiations, health and safety and the learning agenda to name but a few. To suggest our reps do not do this simply undermines them in a time when we really need everyone working together for the same ends.
I know that our union is built on the membership. Without the membership we do not have a union. I know our members are aware of the issues that effect them on a day to day basis, and I know they have the right to change union policy through motions to conference. Whilst I may not agree with every motion that goes to Conference and at times I may think a Conference is unhelpful, members have the right to submit what they like to AGMs and to Conference. That is called to democracy, and democracy is the cornerstone of our union. To suggest motions are “ludicrous” frankly insults those members who do pen motions and those members who agree them at AGMs.
Finally, I think the President needs an understanding of campaigning. I’ve not seen that this year from the current incumbent. I’ve been involved in campaigns for many years – not always wearing my PCS hat. I understand tactics and strategies; there is no point in taking up a campaign if you don’t have a plan. We have to campaign on a raft of issues, be that protecting our office from closure, be that protecting us from losing our jobs or be that protecting us from the horrors of privatisation. I know that if we sit back and do nothing, then bad things will happen.
So essentially, if elected, I aim to be a President you can trust. A President that will try to do what is right by the membership. A President that wont accept second best in negotiations and a President that will stand shoulder with the membership during disputes and campaigns.
I know the amount of work Left Unity GEC members do during the course of the year, sometimes in their own time and at own expense. I know that it is Left Unity GEC members who provide the ideas and drive to make things better.
I’ve never hidden my Left Unity membership and am proud to be able to consider myself a socialist. I do not subscribe to the view that others stand outside of other factions or groupings, I just know that we are open and honest enough to tell you we do. Any candidate who puts a list of names at the bottom of their election address are standing as part of a grouping. To say otherwise is hiding the facts.
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