Half a million join mass strike in Britain on 'Walkout Wednesday'

Power to the people!

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the strikes which forced millions of children to miss school.

"I am clear that our children's education is precious and they deserve to be in school today being taught," he said.

That's rich coming from Rishi; "Think of the children..."

Austerity to balance budgets or correct inflation is better borne by wasteful government corporate lard and ceremony and City of London financial industry tax avoiders:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/12/pand-o12.html

"I am clear that our children's education is precious and they deserve to be in school today being taught," he said.

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As Rishi has opted out of sending his children to state school schools then he has got his wish.

Like most Tories Rishi Sunak is happy to see the

state system in the UK underfunded and crumbling, teachers unable to receive a proper wage whilst paying around 90,000 UK pounds to a private school for his two daughters.

When he talks about “our children’s (sic) education” he isn’t involved…

The Tories have been in control for 12 years and everything is broken.

DT

In the UK the literacy rate is 99%. Nationwide, on average, 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2023.

Rich rishi is Totally out of touch with the people that he is supposed to be serving.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the strikes which forced millions of children to miss school.

"I am clear that our children's education is precious and they deserve to be in school today being taught," he said.

"OUR children"? Oh, I forgot - "we're all in the same boat blah blah blah", except not quite since Torykids are privately educated riding first-class on the gravy-train to Oxbridge and plum positions at the top of the class (system) that's rigged in favor of the rich and connected (just ask His Royal Spareness, Prince 'Arry !). So now it's time for the partying class to find out how "the other half(?)" must live and suck it up until the government coughs up the money that hard-working families and the poverty-stricken need to survive after 40 plus years of being force-fed "supply-side" slop dished out by the rightwing cabal of capitalists and their vassals in Parliament.

In the UK the literacy rate is 99%. Nationwide, on average, 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2023.

No. The US And UK both have a 99% literacy rate based on multiple sources I checked. Here is one example:

https://worldpopulace.com/literacy-rate-by-country/

Here is another:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/literacy-rate-by-country

Rishi Sunak is a billionaire but he wasn't born with a silver spoon.

Granted, but he married a golden one: a blunt fact that might have helped him to forget the more humble roots he has left behind and is now preventing him from understanding the stark realities facing millions of working-class folk trying to survive in class-ridden, post-Brexit Britain.

The Tories with five prime ministers have more than enough time and money to strengthen the country but instead destroyed it. They will lose the next election even if Mickey Mouse stands.

Rishi Sunak is a billionaire but he wasn't born with a silver spoon.

The Tories are showing their true colours.

New law to stop school strike mayhem: Rishi Sunak is ready to ban unions from leaving parents in limbo and force teachers to tell heads who is planning to join walkouts

Teachers on strike?

This is terrible for the younger students, they may end up behind in their coloring. Some may even color outside the lines. If it drags on they may never know the ending to Humpty Dumpty.

This is terrible for the younger students, they may end up behind in their coloring. Some may even color outside the lines. If it drags on they may never know the ending to Humpty Dumpty.

I don't know about the UK but by 1st grade in the US kids are learning to write, read, spell and do arithmetic. They also get some simple science instruction.

I too am not much of a fan of Tory tax cuts followed by stupid promises (Brexit) followed by austerity to balance budgets. I favor reversing tax cuts for the wealthy and making sure corporations pay taxes. (And I am, in fact, an ardent Capitalist.)

I further understand that these public sector workers are seeing their incomes decline in real terms due to world-wide systemic inflation due to supply chain issues caused by Covid.

However…..

When one takes a public sector job, one gets certain benefits that private sector workers do not get namely job protections. In addition, they are vital links in the infrastructure chain in an interconnected civilized society. Furthermore, they are under contract.

You don’t like inflation? Golly, neither do I. That is not an excuse to hold the larger society hostage to your demands. You have contracts. Honor them.

Next contract, negotiate a better deal.

One of the few things that Reagan did that I liked was to fire the ATC strikers for attempting to hold civil air transportation hostage.

So while I sympathize, put me in the “do your damn job and suck it up like the rest of society” camp.

No one will notice any difference.

Funny to see how the old slave-owning and colonialist old powers of Europe are slowly crumbling...

And on the other side of the Atlantic there is a rebellious and poorly educated interventionist son who faces the same decadent fate...

New world order coming !!!...

And its RED colored..

Dagon

of course the children should come first whether is comes from that beastly mans mouth or anyone else.

was once a civil servant and I never took part in strikes in fact I made plenty from overtime with double or triple time when it gets did.