Death and slavery in the UK
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| Ken Fuller |
Two weeks ago, this column discussed the rise of poverty in the USA due to the current economic crisis. Today, we’ll take a look at some developments in the UK which arise — some directly and one indirectly — from that same crisis. As in the USA, it has been decided that those whose system created the crisis should go free and that completely innocent working people should pay the price.
Apart from the hundreds of thousands to be thrown out of employment in the public sector as state and local authority expenditure is cut, workplace deaths and injuries will also increase. This is because the government of David William Donald Cameron, prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party, and his coalition partner, Nicholas William Peter Clegg, deputy prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats (at least until the voters punish him at the next election for not only supping with the devil but forcing the latter’s toxic brew on the country) has decided that health and safety is, after all, not really very important.
Thus, last October it was announced that the funding of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) would be reduced by 35 percent. As a result, the HSE has announced over 200 job-cuts and a reduction of 11,000 unannounced workplace inspections this year. Its hotline, which enables employees to anonymously report workplace violations, will be discontinued..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111011com5.html
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