Around 100,000 civil servants are to strike on 1 February, the Public and Commercial Services union has announced.
Union members in 124 government departments along with several other bodies will walk out.
The action is an escalation of a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.
Will anyone notice?
Meanwhile, the private sector will continue to function in order to pay for them.
Will the ones working from home to on strike?
So many boxes going without ticks.
We’re doomed Ah tell ye, doo-oomed.
My problem with the unions is their links to the Labour party. I believe the unions should cut all their ties with political parties. I would never join a union while it’s affiliated to a political party.
Why do we even have ‘public servants’ administering child benefit, or winter fuel allowances, or contributory pensions, or evaluating asylum claims. It’s just re-allocating the total compensation in society, i mean everyone is a child at some point or gets old, and support for dusky immigrants can be provided by people who want to.
Core function: stopping crime, protecting private property, expelling wrong ‘uns. Stick to it.
You forgot ‘defending bord…’
Oh. Yeah. Right.
Presumably all those licences and permits we need to go about our lives will stop arriving, and the bits of money we get back out of our taxes will be delayed. It would be interesting, though, to see whether the usual floods of legislation going before Parliament for routine approval will dry up.
I’m undecided on this. There must surely be some essential services that will cause people problems if they are withdrawn. On the other hand it will be interesting to see just how much of life carries on as normal without them. A similar experiment happened during the furlough scheme. We are feeling some delayed effects now, inflation caused by all the free money being handed out mainly, but otherwise life carried on very much as normal.
Must be some…. One or two. the rest could be automated and simplified by computer.
Although outside the core, defence, justice system, laughable as it is, I can’t think of any.
When you consider the government’s record with IT projects I’m not sure that “a computer” is the solution. A horde of monkeys with typewriters might be a better option.
N.B Apparently its a troop of monkeys, not a horde. Horde sounds better. 😉