How could a feeling person not sympathise with the sights Orwell saw. My family is working class, my father was working at 14. Materially we are infinitely better off, but there are real tragedies around us ever day. My experience homelessness in the UK shocked me beyond words
1. The trade unions had stopped serving their members and became political tools to remove governments. Homelessness was barely a problem under Thatcher, but if you import 8million plus people and don't build homes for them housing will be a problem.
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I’m all for union reform, but a bad union is better than no union. Collective bargaining is necessary for workers. And like all developed countries, the UK has far more open housing than it does homeless people. It just restricts access for the sake of profit.
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If the NUM - UK miners union - had not several times tried to overthrow governments it's members would still have an industry. You can't pay people anything close to the economic benefit they provide to a company. The first recession/accident will bankrupt the company.
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