Had enough?

[Hetzer]

Most of us can see what's going on in this toilet of a country. The last outrage is to learn the supermarkets have finally admitted to price fixing, though the Tesco scum, predictably enough, are still wriggling on the hook. Asda, what's that advert of their's, while fixing prices? Tesco..."Every little helps"...while fixing prices, so you and me are charged more and the producers get less.

Govt's going to put another 2p on the price of a liter in april.

The common question is "Well, what can we do about it?" Good question, considering how impotent the working man/woman has been made to feel.

I've spent many an idle hour, pondering on various possibilities. Then I thought I'd refer to history, and bingo! The General Strike.

So, what are the odds of getting every man and woman in this country out of work for a week at a time, once every quarter (that's a month's wages gone in a year)? The internet is a very powerful tool, the means of communicating with and coordinating every person in the UK.

It's time to take back control of OUR country, OUR lives, and show these criminal scum at the top the door. You do as WE fvcking say or you get the fvck out!

Comments?
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[carvell]

Noone would do it.

If you were on £30k, it'd cost you £2,500 a year. There's no way the majority of people will be able to afford to pay their mortgage if they did that.

I'd be up for everyone else doing it though, cos then I'd get paid a lot more for working when they're on strike. Bumper Christmas for me.
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[JonB]

Wouldn't work because we don't have any industries that would cripple thw UK economy in a short space of time.

During the general strike of 1926 the UK was heavily reliant on Coal and other forms of mining, so when they went on strike the country we went to pot.

We are so globalized now that nothing we do will affect anything. All our fuel comes from abroad, a huge proportion of working class workers are coming from abroad and thus wouldn't care about the common working class British individual.

I'm not saying this because I wouldn't want to see it work, I would. It's just Britain's economy would be hard to cripple due to working class striking.
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[Hetzer]

Well, the people of this country would have to make an effort and be prepared for personal sacrifice.

But with enough notice money could be saved to cover basic contingencies. Effort and sacrifice.

The question is, do the british people have what it takes?

Oh, I missed a main point you raised...the effectiveness. Cripple the economy? I don't know, but I do know it would fvck the govt hard in the ass. Seriously hard. Do you not remember the effect of just a handful of tanker drivers getting lary? Now imagine the entire country staying off work for a week, telling the govt to do as it's told or there'll be more. How many billions of pounds lost to the treasury? How many billions of pounds lost to the fat scum living life high on the hog?
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[Steve H]

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As much as I hate to say it we could learn a lot from the French.

Their direct action in the form of strikes and civil disobedience seem to be effective. Need a balance between nothing and the crippling union/strike action of the 1970s.

Maybe the system is too corrupt to fix? Will it end in the eventual breakdown of all society and become a lawless battleground with each man for himself? Probably not. 1984 anyone?

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[Steve H]

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[MaybeGuy]

75% of the cost of fuel is tax... more so now, about 85-90%...

how about some independant fuel sales that make fuel and sell it as a private sale?

oh, and trago mills sells fuel '4 ch33p5'
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[Dalemac]

cant we block off all the oil depot entrances/ exits like a few years ago, and bring the price of petrol back down? its crippling me ATM, gone up by like 6p a litre.
I'd be up for it
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[Itchy]

the only way to provide a erm disruption to government would be to over pay your income tax by about £1 , you'll get it back but it needs to be triple checked before they will send you the cheque which effectively costs them about £50-60 to process,

this x 30 million = 1800,000,000

1.8bn , which is 2p on income tax
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[killa]

Just had a conversation with a guy at work about the oil prices, he says there's no need for this increase with the wells recently found in Brazil.
We're talking tonnes
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[Hetzer]

I'm feeling like I usually feel when I try to motivate people to do something that takes a bit of effort...take off from the airfield, gassed and bombed up to the gills, and set course for the target somewhere over the water.

Before the coast is in sight I've already lost two motors, the gunners have bailed out and the bomb-sight has fallen off it's mount.

The countryside below is strewn with the wrecks of previously crashed bombers. They even put up a bus-stop just for me.

I'll get my parachute.
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