Stuffed and puffed as they are with their own ridiculous and risible self-importance, the public sector workers (or some of them, anyway) are on strike and, as I could have told them, no-one noticed. Kids enjoy a day off but they have too many days off already so parents are used to coping. Civil servants are absent for a day but the only difference is that this time they don't have a sick note. Patients have their minor ops put back which is probably for the third time anyway. The word from Heathrow is that far from chaos everything is moving better than a normal day.
The very best piece of joyous news to be heard in Osborne's speech was that the number of public service employees to be laid off will almost double. Christmas has come early this year.
I work for an organisation which is part public and part private sector. Certainly there are a lot of public sector unions here. It seems business as usual - the strike seems to have had no impact.
I was expecting to drive in past donkey-jacketed men standing around a brazier. Even prepared my riposte for them. Damn disappointing.
Posted by: Whyaxye | Wednesday, 30 November 2011 at 10:51
We saw some pickets this morning at a university site. Their placards said (if I remember rightly) "Save our Pensions". That's just the slogan to mobilise the masses, eh?
Posted by: dearieme | Wednesday, 30 November 2011 at 12:20
You will just have to drive round, 'W', until you find a picket line because it would be a pity to wast a good riposte!
Poor old Karl, I bet he doesn't know whether to laugh or cry in his coffin.
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 30 November 2011 at 12:53