Back to the Planet Blog!

Reader! Has it really been a year since our last love affair? I have Given Paul of Medway a new Face and colour coordinated shoes to dance; I hope the appearance is pleasant to the eye and the dialog tuneful to the mind.

I Have been a studious law student for the last 12 months, hacking away in the library and clocking in the 12 hour Night shifts at the local District General Hospital – Alas, absolutely no time for living and certainly no time for Bloging either. But as my days grow lighter and my academic study becomes shorter, I now find that I may have some extra time on my hands…

Instead of doing something really usefull and positive like reinvigortae my twice dead social life or start up a sanctuary for poorly hedgehogs with tunnel vision and vertigo – I thought I would coil up back into my warm hole of a Blog, and then vent some merry spleen onto the crule world, in which we are all born... violently, bloody and clueless.

Paul of Medway also has a new agenda, it looks like the UK might be (done in) for a real Tory Government (the last decade of Neo Labour has been a mere warm up) the gates of Mordor are finally about to open – all good creatures must take up arms against the dark towers of Notting Hill – lets Do some Class War!

A few good bargains were struck to get Neo Labour into power – one of which was the minimum wage; Arch Tories have not so easily forgotten that bitter blow! And the subsequent unfruitful lies about UK plc becoming dysfunctional have not come about since a red line was drawn under exploitation. But the chess pieces have now began to start moving on the board again…

The introduction of the Employment Opportunities Bill by Tory Christopher Chopes reveals the draconian wheels that will always turn in the Tory party mindset – this vile legislation would seek to undermine the minimum wage under the guise of some liberal pretence about offering flexibility and choice to employers during the economic down turn! The Private members bill was defeated on the second reading on the 17th of May, but it is still disheartening that the legislation even got this close to the statute book. The ball will start rolling again, this was only the first round.

I still remember the early 1990s, leaving school with worthless qualifications and entering into a melted down industrial employment market, to work for money grabbing agencies in factories and warehouses, earning below £3.00 per hour! Go on Tories, pass your crappy legislation and polarize this generation, in the next ten years when we have you on your knees again, it will be the guillotine for the old relics of the Twentieth Century.

Wage Concern