Summer Of Discontent

When the 5th largest Economy in the World can spend £133 billion on nuclear weapons whilst NHS figures showed illnesses linked to Victorian poverty and lack of food were making a comeback, with cases of scurvy and malnutrition doubling since the Conservatives came to power, you know the people making the decisions are not doing the best job they can.
The same people who told NHS staff that a 1% payrise was all they could afford while just writing off £11 billion of illegitimate Covid loans and burning £4 billion of PPE which they purchased but was unusable are now trying to say that the Train Staff who are striking next week are  'hurting the nations workers'. Not as much as you spaffing our money away it won't says every UK taxpayer.
As much as they want to keep the focus on how much a train driver earns compared to everyone else, therefore pitting workers against each other, the strike is also about safety as job cuts hit and the reduction of the terms and conditions in their contracts but it isn't just getting on a train which will be tougher this summer, so will travelling on a bus or plane and getting your bins emptied as the UK Summer of Discontent takes hold.
The list includes rail strikes along with tube and tram services and British Airways airport staff are being balloted on industrial action with Ryanair and easyJet already agreeing to walk outs as have Arriva buses which affects most of the northern half of the country.
Post Office staff have firmed up their dates for upcoming strike action and waste is piling up on some streets as Bin workers across the country are set to continue their strike in what they are calling the 'summer of stink'.
Civil Service Union, PCS, is balloting members on a striking for three days over job cuts as are the unions for BT, Openreach and EE staff so things could be about to get very uncomfortable, and smelly, very quickly.