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Why These Strikers May Tear Down the EU Empire

Looks like today the British workers outside the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire have been twinned with the striking workers at the shipyards at Gdansk in 1980: and for any worker, there could be no greater honour.

Gdansk was the moment when Polish workers stood against the Soviet empire and said there would be no more submission: 'On our knees before God, but on our own two feet before all men.'

Their strike spread across Poland, and cracked the power of the quislings in Warsaw who did Moscow's work. The strike was the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.

Today the strike in Lincolnshire has spread across Britain to contractors at the nuclear power plants Sellafield and Heysham, to Grangemough oil refinery and power stations at Longanet, Warrington and Staythorpe, to contractors at the South Hook LNG terminal in Milford Haven, and to Croyton oil refinery in Essex.

Thousands have gone out. The strikes have gone wild cat.

And all of it is right. For what else can British workers do when their own parliament has turned over the power to control Britains' borders and Britain's labour laws to the Brussels empire?

There is no point in saying, 'The workers must obey the laws that govern employment.' The laws which now govern employment in this country are no longer legitimate. They are no longer the laws drawn up by British democracy.

They are the laws drawn up by the European Commission. They are laws to which a generation of Britain's politicians have signed up, giving away powers they had no right to give away.

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Ever heard anybody say how the Workers Compensation Board often tells injured people that they aren’t covered because of a "pre-existing condition"? If you haven’t, get your head out of the sand!Let’s talk about the Workers Compensation Board. For many years, WCB files on claimants were kept secret. Ever applied for WCB benefits after a work injury? They make you see one of "their" doctors, on whose opinion their judgement on you is based. That’s the first scam. These doctors are well paid whether or not they adjudge that your injury is work-related. The second scam is that nobody can (or rather, could) see your file except the doctor and the WCB, along with the fact that the WCB, in true corporate style, operates just like a commercial insurance company. And what do commercial insurance companies do? They employ "adjusters", whose sole job is to find reasons to not pay out, or to pay out as little as possible. Oh, never mind that it’s your tax dollars at work or that your current government might boast about accountability. If you believe any of that, I’ve got a bridge for sale…

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