Britain Buys Water Cannons; Fears Civil Unrest From Government Workers
13
July, 2014
Submitted
by Martin Armstrong of Armstrong
Economics,
The
British government has just invested in water cannons because they
are fearing the rising tide of civil unrest as austerity is forcing
the reduction of state workers and their pensions. I
have been warning that unemployment will rise, but this time it is
going to flow more so from the state and municipal workers. In the
UK, hundreds
of thousands have took
to the streets to
protest against the austerity measures of the government. Prime
Minister Cameron has no choice for this is the collapse of socialism.
Those who think I am anti-poor or whatever, are missing the point. It
is the rising cost of government that is out of control and NO LEVEL
of tax increase can reverse this trend.
The
British unions called for strikes nationwide. Teachers, firemen and
civil servants joined the calls and and took the streets
demonstrating for higher wages and pensions. Just where is this money
supposed to come from they really have no idea. They
merely argue to take it from someone else no matter what and give it
to them.
According
to the unions more
than one million people took
part in the strike. About one-fifth of state employees have taken
part in the strikes. Indeed, the majority had appeared on the job to
maintain “almost all key areas of public service” functions. The
interesting question this presents if everything can function with
one-fifth less, then does this suggest that government can be run
with far less people? Nonetheless, some 6,000
schools did
remain closed, which
was about one quarter of all schools in England. The strikes also
impacted museums, libraries and garbage (refuse) collection in some
cities. At the airports, such as international London Heathrow and
Luton, there were delays because parts of the ground crew were on
strike. Around 12 percent of government employees in Scotland joined
the strike. Also in Northern
Ireland andWales there
were many public institutions – including schools, courts and job
centers – that had also closed on Thursday.
Public
employees do not care where the money comes from, they refuse cuts
and demand their pensions. This is similar to what happened in Rome
where the army, when unpaid, just began sacking their own cities to
grab whatever they had being justified as the army deserves it.
The
central demands of the workers were against
the austerity policy of the British government. In
2010, the salaries were frozen in the public service first.
Then in
2012 an annual wage increase was written down by one percent.
Governments are going broke because they promised pension and failed
to fund it always assuming there would be ample tax revenues
available.
Effectively,
in Britain there was a two-year pay freeze, and then the 3rd year
comes another freeze followed by a one-percent wage increase.
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