Comments on: Going Dutch http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/11/02/roy-mayall/going-dutch/ The Blog of the London Review of Books Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Mayall http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/11/02/roy-mayall/going-dutch/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Roy Mayall Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:37:08 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=2017#comment-428 Yes, we'll see. Yes, we’ll see.

]]> By: the abbot postie http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/11/02/roy-mayall/going-dutch/comment-page-1/#comment-425 the abbot postie Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:18:43 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=2017#comment-425 Hi Roy, As you know, next year we are expecting the a lot of new technology to be installed, also including the new "walk sequencing machines", allegedly meaning our prep will be greatly reduced. Well i will be interested to see how successfully that works, as at the moment our automation means that i regularly receive coded mail for chingford in my boxes-i work in an office in south west england! A colleague in a mail centre in this county told me that the staff there were offered "buy down" hours, from full time to part time, say a new contract of 20 hours a week. Unfortunately when the staff scrutinised the new contract they saw that it was valid for one year and had to be renewed after that.Not surprisingly, to date, no one has taken up the offer and management have had to go back to the drawing board! Hi Roy,
As you know, next year we are expecting the a lot of new technology to be installed, also including the new “walk sequencing machines”, allegedly meaning our prep will be greatly reduced. Well i will be interested to see how successfully that works, as at the moment our automation means that i regularly receive coded mail for chingford in my boxes-i work in an office in south west england!
A colleague in a mail centre in this county told me that the staff there were offered “buy down” hours, from full time to part time, say a new contract of 20 hours a week.
Unfortunately when the staff scrutinised the new contract they saw that it was valid for one year and had to be renewed after that.Not surprisingly, to date, no one has taken up the offer and management have had to go back to the drawing board!

]]> By: Mainwaring http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/11/02/roy-mayall/going-dutch/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Mainwaring Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:42:18 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=2017#comment-416 The Banks were 'liberalised' and look what happened. Ordinary working people will be paying the price for generations to come. Don't forget too that it was Gordon Brown wot done it. He liberalised the banks after his first idea to build a Super Casino in every town and village in the land as a way of paying for New Labour's warmongering profligacy hit the buffers. That mad idea was rightly kyboshed by the common sense British Public. So Gordon and his underworld Pal Fred The Shred went and turned every bank in the high street into a Casino. The only difference being they got to gamble with your money and they got to keep the winnings. Poor Joe Public was not to share in the winnings when times were good just to eat the losses when it all went wrong. That was the plan and it worked. Now they are all off to sunnier tax free climes with their bags of swag. The sooner Labour goes back to its roots, remembers the workers and puts Gordon, Tony, Mandy, and all their Lord Snooty Banker pals into labour camps the better. Yeah and shove that croquet playing traitor to the working classes Two Jags in with them. That'll make a quartet. Then they could sing as they sew mail bags. To the tune of The Red Flag:- "The working class can kiss my arse, I've got the foreman's job at last." But what are we to do? Who to vote for? The Con Labour Party, the Con Tory Party or the Con Liberals - with 'Con' meaning Conmen, not Conservative. They all want to sell Britain down the river. The Banks were ‘liberalised’ and look what happened. Ordinary working people will be paying the price for generations to come.

Don’t forget too that it was Gordon Brown wot done it. He liberalised the banks after his first idea to build a Super Casino in every town and village in the land as a way of paying for New Labour’s warmongering profligacy hit the buffers.

That mad idea was rightly kyboshed by the common sense British Public. So Gordon and his underworld Pal Fred The Shred went and turned every bank in the high street into a Casino. The only difference being they got to gamble with your money and they got to keep the winnings. Poor Joe Public was not to share in the winnings when times were good just to eat the losses when it all went wrong. That was the plan and it worked. Now they are all off to sunnier tax free climes with their bags of swag.

The sooner Labour goes back to its roots, remembers the workers and puts Gordon, Tony, Mandy, and all their Lord Snooty Banker pals into labour camps the better. Yeah and shove that croquet playing traitor to the working classes Two Jags in with them. That’ll make a quartet. Then they could sing as they sew mail bags. To the tune of The Red Flag:- “The working class can kiss my arse, I’ve got the foreman’s job at last.”

But what are we to do? Who to vote for? The Con Labour Party, the Con Tory Party or the Con Liberals – with ‘Con’ meaning Conmen, not Conservative. They all want to sell Britain down the river.

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