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		<title>Striking should be illegal.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Getty Images via Daylife Okay so call me a Thatcherite prick if you must, be I honestly think there&#8217;s no reasonable time to strike. Striking is like blackmail. &#8220;I&#8217;m not coming in to work until you give me what I want. I&#8217;ll disrupt your business, and everyone else&#8217;s, I don&#8217;t give a shit. [...]]]></description>
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<p>Okay so call me a Thatcherite prick if you must, be I honestly think there&#8217;s no reasonable time to strike.</p>
<p>Striking is like blackmail. &#8220;I&#8217;m not coming in to work until you give me what I want. I&#8217;ll disrupt your business, and everyone else&#8217;s, I don&#8217;t give a shit. Until you give me what I want.&#8221; It&#8217;s a ridiculously selfish attitude.</p>
<p>When the Unions for Transport for London workers and Royal Mail workers decide to strike, they&#8217;re not only disrupting TFL/RM, they&#8217;re putting the whole Capital, if not the whole Country on hold for their own selfish purposes.</p>
<p>If you want more money &#8211; get a better job. It&#8217;s just that simple. If you don&#8217;t have the qualifications, flipping earn them. If for some reason it&#8217;s too late for you to re-qualify (which I understand may be the case), then I&#8217;m sorry but that&#8217;s <em>your</em> business. Don&#8217;t make it mine.</p>
<p>When a Union strikes because of reform, that&#8217;s even more frustrating. You&#8217;re then not only holding back businesses, but you&#8217;re holding back our society. If the Royal Mail has some ideas to improve the service, but this means more robots and less workers, then so be it. Yes there may be some job losses, but there may be a whole load more created in the robot manufacturing warehouses.</p>
<p>You have to remember, this is not your business. I don&#8217;t have the right to come into your business and tell you how to run it &#8211; so why should you have the right to tell them? If you want to be the decision maker, run your own damn  business.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d fire the lot of them. Simples. The Royal Mail have hired 30,000 temp workers to maintain the service whilst the strikes take place. If I were in the top position, I&#8217;d fire all the workers on strike and hire the temp workers.</p>
<p>In this recession there are too many people out of work, trying desperately to find a job. Then we have these idiots striking and QQing. If you don&#8217;t like the job, give someone else a chance.</p>
<p>Striking hurts the economy. The last RMT strike (TFL workers) cost London businesses £100,000,000. We&#8217;re in a flipping recession &#8211; think about it!</p>
<p>Striking is a lame tool, that&#8217;s over-abused today in the UK (and France for that matter), I think we need to clamp down. For anyone who disagrees with this statement, I end this post with two words: Bob Crow</p>
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		<title>Vote Match</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay so I&#8217;m still feeling guilty for missing the European Elections yesterday. Terrible. Just for reference, here are my Vote Match results. These things aren&#8217;t completely accurate of course (we&#8217;d need far more questions, plus it&#8217;s not uncommon to disagree with your party on certain aspects), they are just a bit of fun. Oh, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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<p>Okay so I&#8217;m still feeling guilty for missing the European Elections yesterday. Terrible.</p>
<p>Just for reference, here are my Vote Match results. These things aren&#8217;t completely accurate of course (we&#8217;d need far more questions, plus it&#8217;s not uncommon to disagree with your party on certain aspects), they are just a bit of fun. Oh, I&#8217;m a Libdem by the way.</p>
<p>Get your own results <a href="http://www.votematch.co.uk">here</a>.</p>
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