see url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-42789939
Some women in 1918, got the vote if they were aged over 30 and had
property to the value of £5. Most women in the UK didn't qualify,
particularly those who worked in arms and explosives factories during
the war, and others who worked in the fields as farm labourers, others
still, worked on the front line as nurses, doctors and such like.
Suffragettes were mostly middle and upper class women, some of them used
violence, and other forms of criminality, including arson and criminal
damage in place of mass demonstrations. The rest of the working female
population got little out of it, if at all. Why give a pardon to those
who don't deserve it?
see url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42968342
Women workers at Tesco UK are still not receiving pay for work of equal
value, even though there is an Act of Parliament which says they
should. Tesco has saved over £4 billion by not operating the law. They
pay mostly male factory workers in the distribution centres £11 an hour,
compared with a store assistant's pay of £8. By fighting the case in
court, Tesco may win, but the main point is that it will take about 10
years for them to do so. A lot of folks might not be working for Tesco
by then...a lot might be dead. Funny how one of the precepts of English
Law is that we are all equal under the eyes of the law. A fundamental
principle, going back to the Magna Carta. If it was a person, like a
single mother, with 3 children who is waiting 6 weeks for her universal
credit and who was forced to steal to feed herself and her kids or pay
the rent, they would be prosecuted and jailed in less than a year. By
contrast, Tescos gets lots of money from the government to help pay its
low paid workers. Capitalism is not about Adam Smith and the initiative
and creativity of the entrepreneur, it is more about getting the state
to bear the risk, so that private capital can make a lot of money. That
is the real hidden hand.
Funny ole world. Just full of contradictions...:-)
ATB
Dougie
