tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post4921029259048084814..comments2023-07-23T16:06:16.018+01:00Comments on Citizen Barnet - trade union news and socialist propaganda from Barnet: The week at Middlesex...Citizen Barnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539991855658960354noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post-60029540045627485602011-03-24T19:13:04.767+00:002011-03-24T19:13:04.767+00:00I do realise that the incursion of facts into your...I do realise that the incursion of facts into your little dreamland are most unwelcome, so, it's a shitty job but someone has to do it. Based on OBR figures:<br /><br />2011-12 spending increase of £10.6 billion<br /><br />2012-13 spending increase of £9.2 billion<br /><br />2013-14 spending increase of £8.1 billion<br /><br />2014-15 spending increase of £6.1 billion<br /><br />Cuts? What cuts?David Duffhttp://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post-91281078982951636632011-03-24T15:58:41.523+00:002011-03-24T15:58:41.523+00:00Well I was under the impression that secondary pic...Well I was under the impression that secondary picketing was illegal. Perhaps the law has been changed? If not, the NUS should not be actively encouraging students to engage in criminal activity. There is widespread support for students in this country, but once they start taking the law into their own hands, it will evaporate.<br /><br />As for the strike action itself, students are not to blame for the financial predicament that the country faces and it is utterly selfish of lecturers to take strike action at such a crucial time in the academic year. Students have assignments to complete and, in many cases, finals to prepare for. <br /><br />It is not the students who created this financial relationship, but they are the ones who pay the price. If you buy a ticket for the cinema and they stop the film 20 minutes from the end, you would rightly complain.Don't Call Me Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602899129846028170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post-50052386078889527072011-03-24T13:31:52.685+00:002011-03-24T13:31:52.685+00:00Quite right, you should put pressure on the univer...Quite right, you should put pressure on the university management not to put the squeeze on their employees (which is what the strike is about).<br /><br />However, it's too bad that you don't see your relationship to your university and your lecturers as anything more than a commercial transaction. <br /><br />I sometimes think it's rather a bleak universe you inhabit. Can we still be friends?Citizen Barnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539991855658960354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post-59382551820880018172011-03-23T14:21:14.681+00:002011-03-23T14:21:14.681+00:00I don’t have any lectures on Thursday which means ...I don’t have any lectures on Thursday which means that I am deprived of my right to cross a picket line. I hope students who lose their classes through industrial action will demand that they are reimbursed by the university.Don't Call Me Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602899129846028170noreply@blogger.com