SEE SENSE GORDON......

Good news maybe as the Telegraph reports that chief executives of the utility giants are being asked to subsidise a new nationwide "fuel poverty" scheme aimed at the 4.5 million poorest households.Apparently, the fuel poverty programme will be part of the Budget on March 12.
Gordon brown is also said to be reconsidering the REMPLOY issue in relation to two factories after lobbying at the Spring Conference.

COBBLERS TO "COBBLERS."

Nice to see Royal mail management being so reasonable as the CWU strike action continues. Boss Adam Crozier is quoted on the BBC as saying that the union's claims re unfair treatment are "cobblers." And then he goes on to use the F word so dearly bleoved of those who seek to impinge on the rights of trade unionists. "Flexibility is the main issue at stake," he says. Well, we all know what flexibility means in the doublespeak which passes for labour relations these days. Longer hours, fewer rights, less pay. Billy Hayes and the team must stick to their guns..........