Basingstoke Solidarity Society

07/11/2022

This is why we need Trade Unions

As one person commenting on the original post also stated.....
"I can't imagine the other monkeys would sit by and do nothing either while their resources were hoarded by one individual. No point studying just the one monkey when the others are acting just as oddly if they don't do something about it themselves and let it happen".

Let us replace the monkey with humans, there is something that can be done. Join a union, organise at your place of work, stand up and be counted to get a fair share of the bananas!!!

07/11/2022

What a difference that would make to Basingstoke, Hampshire, and in fact the entire country as a whole.

People could afford to apply for jobs slightly further afield, increasing their social mobility and therefore paying more taxes, and NI. Plus we could seriously cut road transport emissions, and have cleaner air to name just a few benefits of such a scheme. It may also tempt people out from behind their home computers to go into the office more therefore helping small business that rely on commuters to stay afloat. More commuters = more consumer spending.

Isn't that a wonderful thought?

It is just a shame our government has sold off public transport to foreign investors including other countries public transport organisations who subsidise their own services with money gleaned from British commuters. You are not just paying for your ticket in the UK, nope, you are helping to pay for someone else's somewhere in Europe as well as paying dividends for pensions in say countries like Canada. That is where your fares are going.

Public transport should be a public service, not a private commodity to be milked, and asset stripped to make the rich even richer at the expense of passengers, or to aid other wealthy countries commitments to their own people. It should be invested in the UK for the benefit of the people here.

The cost of public transport in the UK is eye watering compared to our nearest European neighbours, it is a lot less reliable, and dirty because the profits are being creamed off and going elsewhere.

06/11/2022

I will leave you with a last one for the evening.

We need to break the cycle if we don't want to be doing & saying the same things come the 2120's.

The system needs to change.

06/11/2022

Postal workers on Islay have quit over long hours and dangerous working conditions. https://i.stv.tv/3fzitEq

06/11/2022

Absolutely

06/11/2022

This is taken from a group and so I couldn't share the initial post, or the posters details but I think it is really important to read the narratives given by people and organisations such as independent fiscal institutes & economists, rather than the just the Government when it comes to the economy right now.

'As the government, the media and institutions focus on the imaginary black hole, which is apparently the size of the universe, as if it will have to be fixed or filled through cuts or tax increases, the real black hole is largely ignored, as if there were no connection between government spending policies and the breakdown of public services or a disintegrating society. If only we could balance those books, we could address these real challenges and save the planet before it’s too late'.

https://gimms.org.uk/2022/11/06/black-hole/?fbclid=IwAR3HFiIRn4HiIUDEtjs8kU1zhJfTBqwV76jPJeqjana07ueovRrD1pzlb60

“What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.” David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years The upside-down clown world continues. But it’s no laughing matter. In its move this week to raise interest rates yet again, the...

06/11/2022

06/11/2022

Yet again very little coverage of yesterdays protests and marches in the media, and even when it was reported on it was published hours afterward - I personally only saw it show up on news searches on google late last night (10pm-ish) with the media/news sites that did throw up results showing the articles as being published 4 hours before which would have been at 6pm, long after the various rallies.

There is a deliberate & concerted effort to try and ignore the people. I don't think 'they' realise that we are not going away, and these tactics will not work.

Please share far & wide. Together we can raise awareness ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿

A coalition of trade unions and community organisations took part in the rally.