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July 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Jack Doyle
08:04 EST, 20 July 2012
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08:04 EST, 20 July 2012
Most Britons probably now regard the Olympics as a costly extravagance; something we signed up to in the good times when £9billion plus change didn’t feel so much like a lot of money.
Now they’re here, we’ll enjoy the sporting spectacle, make the most of it, and try not to grumble too much about the cost.
But during the last few months it’s become clear that to a small group of militant union bosses, and some of their members, the Olympics represents not a glorious sporting spectacle but an opportunity to hold the rest of us to ransom.
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Over the last six months or so we’ve seen demands for Olympic bonuses for Tube drivers, bus drivers and council workers, even if they’ll be doing pretty much the same job they were beforehand.
And in the vast majority of cases, the public sector has been forced to cough up, at a not inconsiderable cost to the public purse, because they know Bob Crow and his pals have got them by the short and curlies.
If they refuse, and there’s a strike during the Games, then the whole event is thrown into total chaos, at inestimable cost to the country’s reputation.
Yesterday we saw the latest and most outrageous example of this trend from the Public and Commercial Services Union. It has scheduled a strike by border staff and other Home Office workers for next Thursday, the day before the opening ceremony of London 2012.
This is the day when organisers predict arrivals into Britain of Games visitors will be at its peak – with 120,000 coming in through Heathrow alone.
PCS boss Mark Serwotka had the gall to claim on the BBC last night that the Olympics will be unaffected.
In reality the strike is specifically designed to do maximum damage at a time when the eyes of the world will be on the UK.
The union is able to carry out its threat despite the fact that barely 1800 of the 16,000 balloted union members who work at the Home Office voted in favour of strike action.
Turnout was tiny at just 20 per cent and the margin in favour extremely slim.
So even though the vast majority of workers didn’t agree with the strike, it will go ahead, and potentially cause paralysis at the nation’s airports.
Ministers appear rightly reluctant to cave in to their demands, and Home Secretary Theresa May has issued an open letter to staff appealing to their better natures and urging them to turn up to work.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka claims his strike plans will not affect the Olympics
One can only hope that many of them do so.
What make the whole situation much worse of course, is the vast public subsidy handed over to the very unions betraying the rest of us in their own selfish interest.
Around £36million a year goes to fund the trade union activities of civil servants, hundreds of whom have their entire salaries paid for by the public purse.
It’s the fiscal equivalent of handing a villain £20 so he can buy a bat and use it to smash you in the face.
Why this Government is only now waking up to the need to end this grotesque abuse of taxpayers’ money is anyone’s guess. It was only this month that the Cabinet Office published plans to do anything about it, meaning there is little hope of legislation anytime soon.
What we haven’t yet seen is any serious proposal from ministers to address the ridiculous laws that allow the militant minority to make outrageous demands, and hold unjustifiable strikes, even if they can’t even garner the support of many of their members.
The public would clearly welcome a law to prevent the country being brought to its knees by a few hundred union die-hards.
A backbench Tory MP, Dominic Raab, proposed a law which would have set minimum turnouts for strike ballots, but it died in Parliament for want of ministerial backing.
During last year’s strikes, Francis Maude did a lot of tough talking, accusing the unions of playing with fire and making veiled threats.
Now it’s time to back up those strong words and take some serious action.
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Trash the reputation of Britain!!!, think they`ve been”pipped at the post” by the politicians, union bosses are no different just “oinks” with their noses in the taxpayers back-pockets, just like judges,police,nurses,teachers,all of them doing a poor job of work for the UKPLC. Shame on you all, you are a disgrace to this country, following in the footsteps of BLiar and Co.
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Unions don’t give a fig for the country or it’s reputation. All they care about id holding it to ransom for power and money.
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What do you mean”trash UK’s reputation”? That happened fifteen years ago, and all that has happened since has trashed it even further until there is no more trashing to be had.
Ask anyone in the street if they would leave UK if they could, I am guessing it would be North of 60%.
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Isnt this the best time for people to protest?
God know that the games are intrinsic to stripping away peoples rights as it is.
The olympics are the most apt time for a hurculean rising of everyday people to be heard, precisely becasue the eyes of the world are on us…
We can set an example that erosion of rights will never be tollerated
We can be the example that people should be treated fairly, with dignity and respect.
Every struggle has casualties, the olympics is a a just casualty.
Bring it on.
Viva la revolution !
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These blackmailing parasites should be sacked. Every extra pound they are given comes out of somebody else`s pocket. Send in the troops!
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Serwotka reached the apogee of his career as a benefits clerk. Everything after that has been downhill. He is a loud mouthed trouble maker with no connection to reality that would make sense to any sensible UK citizen.
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AS if Cameron, Osborne and Hague are not “trashing us” enough in the eyes of the world anyway. A little more won’t make that much difference – and most people will realise that the “trashing” by the unions is a direct result of the “trashing” by this government and the “unions” of bankers and businessmen that support it..
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What reputation ?
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As usual the only people to suffer will be the electorate , not the politicians responsible for escorting us to where we are !.
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Sarwokta, Crow et al are commie traitors. But they know they are not dealing with Thatcher, Lawson, Tebbit and Young.
All they will do by their nastiness is ruin the pleasure of millions of ordinairy people.
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