Mark Steel article in The Independent

[terrace]

A very humourous and informative comment from the comedian Mark Steel
here's the link
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[El Diablo]

I always had a lot of respect for this guy, he knows his stuff, and can put his point across with biting humour.

We need more of this...

[postie12]

This fight is becoming more and clearer to me the longer it goes on....this isn’t about post and customers now. It’s about morality, right and wrong and standing up for our rights. We have seen how this country is run. By greedy individuals who don’t give a damn about the people they are supposed to look after. It’s all about lining their pockets at any cost. Look at the banks, look at the MP expenses scandal, look at how much Adam Crozier and his kind are paid, look at our laws and how murderers, rapists, muggers ,embezzlers, drunk drivers,peadophiles, benefit cheats all get off with pathetic punishment for their crimes. If you try to defend yourself or others you are the one in the dock!! We need to stand up to this and fight it all the way.

We bang on about how great our democratic society is...pah. Was the man in charge of it all voted in by you or me? NO! he wasn’t, nor was Peter Mandleson (who was sacked twice before) or any of the other people left to bring this country to its knees. So this fight we all now face isn’t about letters or packets or unrealistic budgets and so on. It’s about the average hardworking honest, reliable, trustworthy man or woman taking a stand about everything that is wrong about this country. These unelected people who have turned this country into a state where unemployed people are better off on the dole and where greed, lies, cheats, dishonesty, bullies and users are all rewarded and the real fabric of society who keep this country going are slapped down at any attempt to question the people who are "supposed" to represent us and our best interests and concerns.

This fight cannot and will not be lost. This is our chance to show what the working man/woman in this country feels about all the things we suffer on a daily basis in work and infact out of it. Our very constitution depends on it.

No Surrender!!

WELL SAID, MATE

[piranha]

Thats'a brilliant article! Absolute truth with a light hearted commentary. I especially liked this paragraph:

You can see why there's such enthusiasm for taking on the post unions, because these are the people whose excess has got us into such a financial mess. Ask anyone "Whose greed caused the economic crash"? and they'll say "Investment postmen, they're the bastards." And we've all heard tales of them gloating down the sorting office, about how they'd just finished Gresham Street when they heard about the run on the futures market in Hong Kong, nipped down the stock market on their bicycle, did three dings on their bell to signal "sell" to the traders, picked up £10m and nipped back just in time to finish Parsley Avenue.