Bonuses are Again Pig Occasion: I’ve by no means understood why people who find themselves already paid obscenely excessive salaries get awarded large bonuses for the work of individuals decrease down within the organisations they lead. Even much less that they nonetheless get them when these organisations are clearly failing – as with the water corporations. So it was a small piece of fine information in February 2024 when the then authorities introduced they might block additional bonuses to the water firm after they’d obtained £26 million since 2019 regardless of sewage spills.
In fact many people felt that they need to have been made to repay these bonuses and that the businesses which have racked up large money owed whereas paying out billions to shareholders must be taken into administration to be run to serve the general public.
Again in 2008 it was the predatory actions of the banks that led to the monetary crash, however in 2009, “Regardless of all the pieces that has occurred over the previous 12 months, bankers are nonetheless getting bonuses, usually at fairly obscene ranges, far in extra of most individuals’s annual incomes.”
And on Friday seventeenth July 2009 ‘The Authorities of the Lifeless‘ got here to the guts of the Metropolis of London to ‘have fun’ that “Metropolis pigs are actually again with their snouts within the trough” with “a ‘Bonuses are Again Pig Occasion’, sporting pig masks and organising a trough with ‘Pig Kilos’ combined with pig swill and getting snouts down and bottoms as much as wallow in it.“
The ‘Pig Kilos’ – have been intentionally low-tech paper copies of fivers with a pig over the underside half of the Queen and the pig swill was probably the true factor however seemed like some slightly disagreeable and lumpy porridge with cornflakes combined in.
A few of the protesters had are available in fancy gown – metropolis fits – with Chris Knight together with his standard high hat and Camilla as Miss Piggy. Many placed on latex pig masks and received their heads down within the trough in entrance of the Royal Alternate, scooping up the swill and the fivers.
Kind of collectively they sang quite a lot of cleverly reworded pig songs “together with quite a lot of hits by Miss Piggy, Pinky and Perky, The Simpsons and Piggy Pie“, as will as singing, dancing and miming together with a number of the originals between classes on the trough.
‘Lets Twist Once more’, as soon as recorded by Pinky and Perky grew to become
“Come on let’s rip-off once more
Like we did final summer time
Come on let’s rip-off once more
Like we did final 12 months
Come on let’s rip-off once more
Scamming time is right here.“
“Bonuses Are Again” Chris Knight and the others shouted at Metropolis staff on their approach dwelling, inviting them to “come and swill within the trough, all supplied on the taxpayers expense because of Gordon Brown.“
Vacationers have been bemused, however some stopped to take pleasure in and {photograph} the scene, with a couple of placing on the latex pig masks on provide and becoming a member of in.
Even the Metropolis of London Police appeared amused slightly than fearful by the protest, standing again and watching – and with out their intervention there was no risk to public order.
After round an hour and a half of watching and taking footage I made a decision it was time to go dwelling. I’d taken too many footage and the enjoyable was sporting off.
In fact the bankers – and different bosses – continued to do nicely, whereas the remainder of us needed to undergo fourteen years of Tory austerity with public companies being starved of money and the NHS, prisons and extra deteriorating at tempo.
The Labour Occasion intentionally threw away the possibility of entering into authorities in 2017, when the occasion underneath Corbyn received many extra votes than in 2024. Starmer didn’t win the election, it was misplaced by the Tories who have been poleaxed by Reform and had grow to be clearly unable to run their very own occasion not to mention the nation. I’ve no confidence that our new Labour authorities will likely be greater than a really slight enchancment over their predecessors, although it could be good to be proved improper.
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