Quote Originally Posted by Harry Monk View Post
Thatcher broke the back of Trade Unions in the UK, and look what's happening. Workers at Amazon/ Sports Direct/ Wetherspoons are treated as slave labour, and these zero hours contracts are the equivalent of the Victorian workers having to queue up outside the factory/ dock/ pit and wait to be chosen to work for a day. I wonder how the employment figures would look if the zero hours contracts were taken out of the equation.
A lot of people who would never have dreamed of buying a house, were content, and why not, to live on decent, well maintained council estates. Decent percentage of employment, rents going into the local authorities coffers to keep standards up, the safety net of assistance if work did dry up.....then boom, let’s test people’s greed.. the right to buy, put a mortgage around their necks, they’ll be terrified to rebel now. Oh, and we’ll put interest rates sky high while we’re at it.....