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I'm not quite a frothing berserker but I am getting rather cross with our government messing with the good stuff.

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KateMiddIeton · 29/11/2011 15:17

Just off the top of my head:

  • Student fees
  • Public sector workers terms and conditions (otherwise known as moving the goal posts after the match has started)
  • Women (Report on Fawcett legal challenge result here)
  • Sure Start
  • NHS
  • Erosion of employment rights
  • Removal of EMA
  • Removal of universal child benefit
  • Unfair changes to DLA
  • Unfair changes to ESA assessment

I am getting more and more fed up that these decisions are being made to take away some of the things we should be most proud of and that took years to be achieved.

This thread is a safe haven for some ranting as I know some of us are feeling sick and tired of it all.

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KateMiddIeton · 02/12/2011 01:02

I have just done the biggest ever load of #ff on Twitter. I think I got you all but if not please let me know via Twitter and I'll add you in. I've added hashtag #frothyfriday so you can view them seperate to the main frothers tweets if you want to find people to follow easily.

And now to my sick bed

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garlicnutter · 02/12/2011 00:33

What does Unilever care? They can replace them with workfarers, and/or relocate to Malaysia.

TapselteerieO · 02/12/2011 00:14

"Private sector Unilever workers have just voted to take industrial action to defend their own pensions" So it is us against them, and we are all in it together against the Condem Government. Article here.

LittleTyga · 02/12/2011 00:07

AF - That news story puzzled me too when I heard it on the radio, because that story came out weeks ago - then they started peddling it around again? very blatant - I don't watch, read or listen to mainstream news if I can help it - I prefer more independent sources these days!

LittleTyga · 02/12/2011 00:02

I've name changed to my twitter name to make it easier (was razors) This thread has been thundering along! Will have a little read try to catch up.....

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KateMiddIeton · 01/12/2011 23:46

Welcome to all first time posters. I won't name check you all because there are too many and we're not a quiche or owt like that!

I am a bit behind on the thread (had to do parenting) but I will be back tomorrow to catch up but I hope everyone who's checked in/signed in or lurked are still feeling part of this.

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Scarletbanner · 01/12/2011 23:44

I have signed up to twitter! Have no clue what I'm doing though I think I am following lots of you. Please follow me back: ScarletbannerMN. And can I be added to %23frothers too?

Dalrymps · 01/12/2011 23:33

I'm in. Frothing away with varying degrees of severity. I am a 38 degrees 'Zombie'Hmm

I'm so bloody angryAngry

AnyFucker · 01/12/2011 23:20

This thread is getting very full

I am working tomorrow, pleasse will someone leave a signpost here on to a new one

ta

HedleyLamarr · 01/12/2011 23:17

Tesco are mentioned purely as an example. Other tax avoiding/evading corporations are out there. There are fucking loads of the fuckers. Ffs Gideon and ShinyDave, rein them in and get them to pay tax. Oh, sorry, they fund your party.

AnyFucker · 01/12/2011 23:11

Mme , not a stupid question (where I am concerned) but yes, I am logged in

My name appears in the top right hand of the screen etc

tickety thanks for picking up what I posted in my first couple of msgs on this thread

nobody else did, and it absolutely floored me at the time

the utter transparent calculation of "leaking" that info 48 hrs before a public sector strike

maybe you have to be a health worker to feel the full force of such an attack, I dunno

nobody else I know in RL noticed it either, except my poor DH who felt the full force of my ranting at the time (his eyebrows are still to grow back....)

HedleyLamarr · 01/12/2011 23:05

Tapselteerio there is no need to make any cuts at all as long as they go after the tax avoiders/evaders. As a country we are losing about £70Bn a year. Individuals like Philip Green, paid billions yet pays less tax than if he was on average wage, corporations like Tesco, using loopholes to avoid tax. Virgin being registered in Lichtenstein to pay less tax. Close the loopholes and make every corporation that has a trading office here pay tax. Force Philip Green to pay his tax. We the poor are paying for these cunts.

MmeLindor, I am @HeadlessLamarr on Twitter. Please add me to #frothers. I am frothing. Not for me, but for my children.

Ticketybootoo · 01/12/2011 22:56

Hi AF and Kate - 1st posting on here .

Will sign petition and agree with AF that a massive coincidence that the report was leaked about mortality in hospitals came out before the strike. Any clinical person knows that this has been true for years and doesn't just include weekends- in some cases its overnight too.

There is so much pressure on Trusts to save money that they often cut nursing staff at weekends and the truth is that its nurses who will be the ones who pick up if someone is deteriorating as they observe the patient 24/7 .

Things have got markedly worse and what makes me so MAD is that the population of London is increasing so fast ( approx 300,000, per year) and the number of hospitals isnt. Theres no way that the ones we have now can cram anyone else in ...

MmeLindor. · 01/12/2011 22:56

Are you logged in? Stupid question, I know.

AnyFucker · 01/12/2011 22:42

I get to my homepage thing, and all the buttons don't work

it just does ..... nothing

AnyFucker · 01/12/2011 22:41

AFMumsnet

MmeLindor. · 01/12/2011 22:36

I think I am following you already, AF. What is the name of your twitter a/c?

TapselteerieO · 01/12/2011 22:33

Apologies for the misquote Lubey, I do think the Condem Government seems to get their economic argument over in sound bite form much more easily, how do they defend the indefensible? Why are people sucked in?

Hello Breadandbutterfly.

AnyFucker · 01/12/2011 22:28

apparently, quite a few people are following me

fuck knows how that has happened

AnyFucker · 01/12/2011 22:24

yes, MMe, I have a twitter account, but I can't get it do anything

lubeybaublely · 01/12/2011 22:23

Okay adamschic. I'll see what I can find out about it - very interested.

lubeybaublely · 01/12/2011 22:22

TapselteerieO that was me with the figures, it was 3.9% of GDP (with no global economic issues) in 1997 when Labour took power

In 2007 the deficit the tories inherited was 2.1%

It's currently somewhere around 7% although this graph doesn't seem to have been updated with exact figures : here is aforementioned graph

There has been criticism for measuring it against GDP, but that is beside the point really - it just provides a constant 'control' figure to measure it against, and therefore demonstrate the data imho.

MmeLindor. · 01/12/2011 22:09

AF
are you signed up to Twitter then?

adamschic · 01/12/2011 22:04

Lubey, nothing to link to, but someone has been into school today to talk about student finance.

There have been a few legal challenges but nothing has come of them yet.

breadandbutterfly · 01/12/2011 22:02

Wow. I spend waaay too much time in the Politics forum, and usually feel rather overwhelmed by all of George Osborne's bezzie mates who hang out here, so slightly overwhelmed by 8 hundred and 40 something posts by lefties. Shock Don't feel you have to restrict yourselves to just one thread though - lots going on in PoliticsLand.

I've been ill so haven't said hello yet on this thread. Hallo

Can't use twitter and don't have time to read back over 34 pages - can anyone summarise if the call to action has so far reached the high point of 'frothing' on twittter, or whether there was more to it I missed?

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