Iss’all abart the workers. Everything. The Corbyn way. The distinction is a subtle one. ‘Workers’ are not professionals. So Doctors in the NHS may not be included, for their 97-hour weeks, because they do a bit of private consulting on a Sunday. Workers is workers! Bus drivers, coal-miners, dirt-diggers. Teachers are professionals but for some reason they’re exempt from non-worker status and be counted among the ‘many, not the few’.

Brexit is about how best it’ll benefit, or otherwise, ‘the workers’. Not the bankers who will suffer, they’re not workers. Even though would appear to work, on occasion, in between the drinking (on expenses) marathon sessions and the time laid aside for sexual harassment. But they get paid bonuses, so they’re not workers. Tube drivers get paid bonuses too, but they are definitely, salt-of-the-earth, working men. And wo-men. The Grenfell Tower residents were all workers even the unemployed ones. Its easy.

Jezza even went to Glastonbury to send his message across to a bunch of drunk, stoned, loved-up rock’n’rollers, who loved his words. Mainly ‘NO TUITION FEES!!’ those three words. By the time he got to workers rights most had gone to spit at Liam Gallagher on Stage 3, or to try and catch Ed Shearan’s sweat as it flew into the crowd. But Jezza was Glastonbury’s friend.

Then its over. Glasto. And the clean-up begins. So the geezer wot owns the field calls in 700 people to clean up. Lot of mess to clear. Says it’ll probably take 2 weeks but in fact takes only 2 days. So he sends ’em home. With just 2 days’ pay. Which is 2 days more than if they hadn’t turned up but still. Its because it was, according to Corbyn’s world, a ‘zero-hours contract’. So those workers had no ‘rights’. If they’d have fallen pregnant whilst picking up burger wrappers, they wouldn’t have been entitled to 17 months maternity leave on full pay. If they’d got sick they couldn’t have gone home to rest up and still be given statutory sick pay. Or in fact not turned up at all and still be given sick pay. Pension rights.

I mean what kind of world is it where you can just get some people in, pay them for what they do and then say ‘bye; thanks a lot’? How is that fair? And so for Corbyn to be a party to this chronic abuse of workers is quite shameful. I’m appalled. I’m gonna vote for the Socialist Communist Workers Militant Collective next time instead. Casual labour?? Not on my watch.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx