Jun 2, 2019
It is hard to remember now the world where your employer could not, by law, sack you just because they wanted to
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/09/the-war-on-raspberries/
My whole adult life has been defined by the changes initiated by Thatcher and continued by Tories and New Labour. It is hard to remember now the world where your employer could not, by law, sack you just because they wanted to, and where you could get state protection from rapacious landlords charging unfair rents.
The destruction of heavy industry in order to destroy the strength of organised labour, and the privatisation of the monopoly utilities for the profit of the rich, was a transformation that is at the root of the mass misery we live amongst today.