REAL CRIME NEVER MENTIONED

The real crime which our not so honourable Members of Parliament are guilty of, and which is never mentioned in our not so honourable media, is attempted hoodwinking and hypocrisy.

Each time our rulers exhorted us, the workers and wealth creators, to rein in our wage demands over the last 40 years, to prevent so called wage-inflation, we were presented with a press-ganged Westminster example of self-sacrifice when MPs and Ministers announced that they to would forgo their recommended increases since we were all in the same boat.

What was not shouted from the roof tops, but which has now been exposed, was their underhand, self-serving alternative of racking up their allowances to make up for their "sacrificial losses."

No such loss adjustment was made to public or private sector wage rates with the result that it was again "Joe Mug" who made the only contribution to "national salvation."

When will we wake up to this economic and financial humbuggery and tell the bosses, and their lickspittle politicians, to stick their wage restraint right up their jacksie.

The Trade Union movement needs to strengthen and extend its influence and demands as it embarks on a determined national offensive to raise incomes, win a massive redistribution of wealth, from profits and dividends to wages, simultaneously boosting economic demand and spending our way out of this banker-politician induced crisis of capitalism.