I will admit to nearly choking on a mouthful of beer when I read this from the BBC :
The working week should be cut to 21 hours to help boost the economy and improve quality of life, a left-wing think tank has said.
The New Economics Foundation claimed in a report the reduction in hours would help to ease unemployment and overwork.
The think tank said people were working longer hours now than 30 years ago even though unemployment was at 2.5 million.
The foundation admitted people would earn less, but said they would have more time to carry out worthy tasks.
They would have better scope to look after children or other dependents, there would be more opportunity for civic duties, and older people could even delay retirement, it said.
I don’t even know where to start with this. The government has utterly fucked up the country, borrowed more than we will be able to repay for decades and is now spending even more money, hand over fist, to prop up demand when everyone else is trying to reduce their outgoings. Unemployment has shot up to 2.5 million and for those lucky enough to still have work there are huge swathes of pay freezes and even pay cuts.
And what do these socialist idiots come up with to solve unemployment? Cut the working week to 21 hours so everyone would be part time on part time wages of course. Brilliant!
You may be wondering what made me choke in the above? Well it was this :
They would have better scope to look after children or other dependents, there would be more opportunity for civic duties, and older people could even delay retirement, it said.
More opportunity for civic duties sounds very much like enforced voluntary work to me.
duty
–noun, plural -ties.
1. something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
2. the binding or obligatory force of something that is morally or legally right; moral or legal obligation.
Then we have .. “and older people could delay their retirement” as if its not going to be delayed for a long long time anyway when the country runs out of money.
New Economics Foundation aka Evil Bloodsucking Communist Scum.
I’m not sure which bit of either cutting everyones wages, making people perform compulsory unpaid civic duties or flogging old people until they drop dead and therefore don’t claim a pension sounds good but it’s all related to our wonderful socialist masters and their half-baked schemes to emulate the worst of the USSR in my opinion.
It all sounds good but how is everything related together?