Great meeting yesterday organised by the regional office. Good updates and more information on what the government is planning to do with our pensions, some talk on nationally co-ordinated strike action which I am hoping will materialise before its too late?
Then there was information given out about how we intend to campaign to save the NHS. Cameron and Clegg came to power making statements which more or less guaranteed that the service would not be affected, but then they are politicians and now it looks obvious that the NHS is to be destroyed. We shouldn't expect anything less from them of course. But we must take them on with intelligent tactics.
The amazing thing though is that part of what Unison is proposing to do is to have us (unless I got the message wrong) adopt a Lord so that they can help us defeat the legislation when it gets to the totally out of date and in need of abolition House of Lords? Have we all gone mad? Have we not been fighting for Equality and Fairness for so many years? Doesn't the House of Lords represent that Inequality in our society? How can we now end up having to adopt a Lord to help us fight Inequality? This to many activists is a ridiculous paradox!
Because this is the system we have at the moment and attempting to persuade the House of Lords to vote against the Health and Social Care Bill is more important than arguing on the sidelines about equality. If the Health & Social Care Bill is passed you will have far greater inequality than anything else.
ReplyDeletePeople like me who are truly at the bottom of the pile will be too worn down and exhausted to join the fight against anything else. Health is the bottom line no?
I am writing to my adopted Lord right now and if you care about equality I ask you to do the same and preferably by letter and not email. It is not a paradox it is a strategy for survival. Please fight to save the NHS.
Hey I get the point and accept that on a practical level we need to do this, will not be adopting a lord but will write to one...
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You have no choice. Shirley Williams stands between you and privatisation of the NHS.
ReplyDeleteI know we have no choise but its hard to accept that old institution and what it stands for, Lords are there to continue inequality how can they be lords and we are common? Well I know we are not!
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