Friday, Jan 30, 2009
Union leaders condemn delegates on crisis response
Times: PARIS UNREST WILL SPREAD ROUND WORLD, UNIONS WARN
The gloom surrounding this year’s World Economic Forum descended into confrontation yesterday as international labour leaders launched a withering attack on the 1,400 business executives and 41 heads of government at Davos over what the labour leaders alleged was their failure to respond effectively to a deepening crisis of their own creation.
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1. troy said...
Has started in England and Wales this morning according to BBC
2. paul said...
3. hubbers said...
UNIONS WILL SPREAD PARIS UNREST ROUND WORLD
It think the Times got the words mixed up.
No one does a good street protest like the French. If it were a sport they would have dominated the world for decades.
4. happy mondays said...
I don't think, it will be just a union protest, people are or should be naffed off with the corrupt banking system and dodgy government...! The french are not as tollerent as the british, as long as our boat is only rocking, we will just sit down and moan about the situation, where as other nations will show there emotions! It is just a matter of time before it starts here... And how come the riots and step down of the icelantic government has not been shown on national t.v ?
5. str 2007 said...
It hasn't got 'bad' here yet. People are still too busy hanging onto their jobs to protest.
I suspect we maywell see sililar scenes here later in the year.
Interesting observation happy mondays. I have senn any Iceland protests on telly either - perhaps we're being censored.
6. plato said...
The less stable a country is,the more likely the unrest. For all its faults(and there are many) UK is, as I have pointed out before,more stable than most and more internally communicative than most also. I don't mean gossip in this sense. Gossip is meaningless entertainment which again we have plenty of. I mean open discussion like this.
From this point of view the country's financial system although corrupted is equally and comparatively stable.IMO this bodes well for the currency in the future. Also realistically if the corruption can be cleaned up anywhere,it will be here - where else would you expect this to happen? The economy will then repair.
This must occur through reasoning,debate and media not through violence,which will play right into the hands of the corrupt.As will happen abroad.
7. shipbuilder said...
Plato, I don't really buy that - I don't see that any amount of debate in the UK has resolved anything - we will get ID cards, we have CCTV, we will get a national DNA register, the housing bubble happened in spite of warnings. Did reasoned debate get rid of the poll tax?
I think we are just apathetic, money-obsessed, individualistic and conditioned over the last few decades to accept whatever we are told is 'good for the economy' and that's it.
8. plato said...
shipbuilder......
Sorry to get back so late.......All the things you say are true,they've happened or are happening. However I honestly don't think physical protestation will acheive anything except more misery.
The reason being that we have simply gone past that stage for the reasons you have given. We are owned hook line and sinker. Controlled by a completely established system of law and order that has its interests in every possible place as you have doubtless noticed. The emphasis now has to be with rational influence. It is our only chance for a fairer society. We have now to rely on articulate,honest influence and hope it is taken on by some of those with power,influence and conscience who will enact change.
Nobody sane wants wildness in the streets to end up losing what little we have. You will see this in other countries as we speak that are as I said, less stable. I detest injustice as much as anyone but civilisation depends on behaviour. I'm afraid if we get to a violent stage we will all lose any chance of change in our life time,having given the instigators a stronger foothold.