britains flexible workforce

[Tman]

Quite funny that teaman can remember quite distincly them turning up bringing warm tea and food at our late night vigil in the recent strikes have you ever thought they might not like you ? quite posible as your rhetoric is one of management distasteful as that may be

Errrr what?
Agent, slow down and reread what you've written, and you may realise it's unintelligable...

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Strange really that postmen and women are considered middle class twerps. A few things I would like to comment about.

1. Its dangerous to generalise about anything. However I suppose some will always do that, put people into their own niches and boxes and not allow for, as with most things in life, that some are good and some are bad. I always say don't take a view on a group, take a view on an individual.

2. Most of the active members in my local DO are SWP members, and I do not count myself in that as at present I am unaffiliated to any political party, but I am leaning towards the Greens. So they can hardly all be classed as middle class twerps.

3. The SWP is classed as a revolutionary party even by themselves so using the workers as pawns in "the class struggle" is hardly news its the reason they exist. Which is why I wont ever affiliate with them, however is does not mean that we should just dismiss their views and policies just because we don't like their main aims

[Tman]

I well remember back in the Thatcher era standing on a cold picket line

Oh really ? You think anyone will believe this after everything you've said ?

Thorby, please point me to anything I've said which leads you to think that.

[Tman]

Fancy someone turning up on the picket line in freezing weather to support you f***ing liberty. Deserved all the physical violence your sophisticated chum dealt out

That's just it me old Bell, he was there for his own little party's ends. The hardship the strikers were suffering was immaterial.
Scabby little hanger-on.....

[BELIAL]

Fancy someone turning up on the picket line in freezing weather to support you f***ing liberty. Deserved all the physical violence your sophisticated chum dealt out

That's just it me old Bell, he was there for his own little party's ends. The hardship the strikers were suffering was immaterial.
Scabby little hanger-on.....

There's a phrase, if I could only remember it all.
Goes something like "takes one to know ... "

[Tman]

Scabby little hanger-on.....

There's a phrase, if I could only remember it all.
Goes something like "takes one to know ... [/quote

That's a pretty sad comeback there Bell. I thought you had more about you than that...

No strike breakers here though. Our sections have always been solid in any IA, unlike some much larger RM departments and grades, apparently......

[Thorby Bislam]

I well remember back in the Thatcher era standing on a cold picket line

Oh really ? You think anyone will believe this after everything you've said ?

Thorby, please point me to anything I've said which leads you to think that.

I'm not going to go look through your 610 post history, but having been on RMC for a while now I've got to know the attitudes and personalities of the regular posters. As much as one can on an internet forum anyway. And vice versa, you could probably make a reasonably accurate guess of me.
Thing is, you are always openly contemptuous of unions and union members. especially of union members who take industrial action. Well so what ? I dont particularly care much what you think, but it's a bit hypocritical to one minute be union-bashing and the next to say you've been on a picket line.

[BELIAL]

Scabby little hanger-on.....

There's a phrase, if I could only remember it all.
Goes something like "takes one to know ... [/quote

That's a pretty sad comeback there Bell. I thought you had more about you than that...

No strike breakers here though. Our sections have always been solid in any IA, unlike some much larger RM departments and grades, apparently......

Think you've hit the nail on the head there and picked out the key difference. My expectations regarding the level of your contributions here are extremely low ,yet you never fail to disappoint , well done

[Night Tonic]

This thread has all the hallmarks of a beaten, disillusioned fighting spirit that is no more. As always, nothing better to do than turn on itself, or even the union. Not much left is there. Me thinks Mandy will wipe the floor on this without even getting out of breath.

[axeman]

more like turn the other cheek bit more left in this yet........... nighty.... it's not over till the fat lady sings

[darth]

This thread has all the hallmarks of a beaten, disillusioned fighting spirit that is no more. As always, nothing better to do than turn on itself, or even the union. Not much left is there. Me thinks Mandy will wipe the floor on this without even getting out of breath.

i always find your postings intriguing night tonic and they always remind me of the the stuff that william joyce spouted in ww 2.

[Tman]

I'm not going to go look through your 610 post history, but having been on RMC for a while now I've got to know the attitudes and personalities of the regular posters. As much as one can on an internet forum anyway. And vice versa, you could probably make a reasonably accurate guess of me.

Nope, I haven't a clue about you. Are you someone important?

Thing is, you are always openly contemptuous of unions and union members. especially of union members who take industrial action.

You've got it wrong and you're thinking of someone else then. Not, and never have been "contemptuous of unions and union members". I'm very critical of the CWU and it's dinosaur-like attitudes, but I've always been a union member (not necessarily the CWU) and have every regard for the union concepts.

Well so what ? I dont particularly care much what you think, but it's a bit hypocritical to one minute be union-bashing and the next to say you've been on a picket line.

So what indeed. Still, I've never crossed a picket line or gone in on IA, and there's a few thousand posties who can't say that.... Are you one of them? Tell the truth now.....

[Tman]

TrueBlueTerrier"]Strange really that postmen and women are considered middle class twerps. A few things I would like to comment about

Why, is the SWP synonymous with posties, then?

Most of the active members in my local DO are SWP members,

The key word being "active" I suppose? Or are you confusing members who regard themselves as socialists with those who actually are SWP members? Or just exaggerating for effect?

3. The SWP is classed as a revolutionary party even by themselves so using the workers as pawns in "the class struggle" is hardly news its the reason they exist. Which is why I wont ever affiliate with them, however is does not mean that we should just dismiss their views and policies just because we don't like their main aims.

Ludicrous logic there Judge. On that daft premise, the BNP would be acceptable too...

[BELIAL]

Tongues up their arses about the SWP With all thats going on We all still read the important stuff Give up

[Tman]

BELIAL"]Tongues up their arses about the SWP With all thats going on We all still read the important stuff

I agree, Bell. Far too much going on in RM these days to be worried about how many students still have that Che poster on the wall.