Trouble is VNA, folks like you hate success and actually want to end up 'lying in our own piss in some shitty minimum wage staffed crappy private care home' just so you can keep feeling bitter.
I'm a union member, I've been a union member all my life working in unionised workplaces, so I do very well thank-you very much.
Sorry to hear about your redundancy, but I hope your new career is to your liking and yer earning some good doh.
Success, envy? Not me, I'm all for it (um the success, not the envy
), but not at other folks expense.
I mean take poor Bob, the boss of a big union which campaigns for the future of our transport system and with some success defends the pay terms and conditions of it's workers, well poor Bob takes a holiday and he gets it in the neck. The Daily Mail is up in arms cos he took a wee break advertised in it's pages. I winder who the Daily Mail thinks such holidays are for?
Talking of success, you know what gets me, it's hard working people not sharing in success. Should not everybody doing their job and working full time not be able to share some success. But no, a whole host of massive companies in the UK get away with paying their workforce the minimum wage, a wage that lies below the living wage - ie what you need to earn to be able to comfortably support ones self. These are the very same companies that are very often dodging billions in corporation tax (legally allowed to do so by our Westminster government), which is why so many of us are focced.
So people like (you maybe) and I, earning good money and paying our taxes have to subsidise these big rich companies, their greedy fat cat directors and shareholders by putting our taxes towards benefits for their hard working employees. If that is the politics of envy (not), then like a great many others I'm guilty as charged.
But the popular media, such as the Sun, the Mail, the Telegraph and so forth are successfully pulling the wool over the eyes of the masses getting them fighting each other over 'benefits' and good old Bob Crow sipping a cocktail on a beach in Brazil. How dare Bob have a holiday!
God help good old Bob Crow if he even as much as spends one nigh in the Ritz!