Welcome to Liz Truss' Britain. Everyone's going on strike

[brooklynite]

Politico

LONDON — As Liz Truss gets down to work as Britain's new prime minister, she faces an immediate problem. Half the British workforce appears to be going on strike.

Across the country, rail workers, barristers, dockhands, bus drivers, garbage collectors, Amazon employees, and even journalists at the infamously anti-union Daily Express newspaper are walking out over stagnant wages in the face of soaring inflation — not to mention the size of their bosses' pay packets, and the crumbling state of public services.

Postal workers are joining the mass walkout too, and have even employed Postman Pat, the mild-mannered children's TV icon beloved by generations of British kids, to flip the bird at his bosses over a pay deal far below the rate at which the cost of living is rising.

And on Tuesday, even as Truss flew north to Scotland to be invited by Queen Elizabeth to form a new government, Britain's firefighters were throwing their hats into the ring, with the Fire Brigades Union announcing 32,500 members would vote on industrial action.

[malaise]

1. So wait- oops - you mean

Boris didn’t survive?
😀😀😀

[brooklynite]

2. Context?

[malaise]

3. You told me he would

😀

[brooklynite]

4. I recall pointing out the rules of the 1922 Committee. Don't remember stating an opinion.

[Hortensis]

5. Go do it. But no doubt people who voted for Brexit and spread Covid,

causing enormous economic problems, including of course the inflation biting them, will strike as righteously as all those who contributed their best, not their worst.

[jimfields33]

6. The voters voted for this prime minister

Now they decide they actually wish they didn’t vote her in? Kinda late.

[bullimiami]

7. Not quite. The fools voted to keep the cons in power which got them boris which begat truss.

they wont have another chance to try righting the ship until next election in a year and a half.