Let me first address the Disunited aspect. A report by the Office for National Statistics indicates that the lowest earners are suffering the most while the bosses and top earners are doing rather well, thankyou very much.
Overall earnings growth was even lower, with the average UK salary increasing just 0.5% on 2010 levels once part-time workers are included.
This was driven by a shift to part-time work as a result of high unemployment and low economic growth: the indicative figures for 2011 included 380,000 fewer full-time workers than a year before, with 72,000 more part-time employees.
...The headline figures also masked sizeable falls in pay for some of the UK's lowest-earning professions – and sizeable salary boosts for senior managers and directors.
[source : UK incomes fall 3.5% in real terms, ONS reveals, The Guardian, 23/11/2011]
Now the Fascist aspect. Our Prime Minister David Cameron, with the assistance of Business Secretary Vince Cable, two of the COCCs, is going to make it easier for workers to be sacked.
The Government is to curb workplace rights in an attempt to cut red tape for business and boost Britain's anaemic economic growth levels.
...And David Cameron is backing a controversial proposal to allow firms to sack poorly performing staff without an explanation. The idea, proposed in a review for Downing Street by Adrian Beecroft, a venture capitalist and Conservative Party donor, has run into strong opposition from the Liberal Democrats and caused a rift at the top of the Coalition.
[source : Cameron's war on employment rights, The Independent, 23/11/2011]
No extra jobs will be created from this. Workers will be more fearful of losing their jobs, despite claims to the contrary, so their spending will decrease as they put more away for that rainy day when they are sacked. Workers will also work harder and longer to keep their poorly paid jobs (see ONS report above). Working harder and longer will drive them to an early grave, so they don't claim their pensions, and will drive an even larger wedge between them and their families as they spend more time at work, making the nation even more disunited.
Note that there is no Cameron's war on banks and bankers. Oh no. That wouldn't do, would it. That would mean bankers being locked up for wrecking the economy (or possibly executed for treason?). That would mean creating money for jobs instead of bailing out banks. That would mean a happier, healthier, more confident population with a roof over their heads and time on their hands to discuss among themselves how the hell we got into this situation.
Every day in every way we're becoming more and more fascist.
Every day in every way we're becoming more and more fascist.
Every day in every way we're becoming more and more fascist.
Every day in every way we're becoming more and more fascist.
Every day in every way we're becoming more and more fascist.
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