Yesterday it was announced that in early summer Peter Mandelson Business
Secretary for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (!) will finally,
after eleven years of procrastinating, be consulting on proposals to stop
companies blacklisting trade union and health and safety activists.
When he does, one remedy would be for UK HEN correspondents to respond
encouragingly and help to drown out the voices of the millers of Coketown
who will be terrifying him to within an inch of his life.....
Mike Hughes
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From: The Health Equity Network (HEN)
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of alex scott-samuel
Sent: 12 May 2009 18:49
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Subject: Tedious
This tedious discussion has left me feeling like those tedious people
who fire off 'Unsubscribe' letters to e-groups because they're too lazy
to check who the list-owner is. Am I alone in this list in having very
little interest in hazily recalled quotations from distant undergraduate
days - but a lot of interest in what is being done by HEN members here
and now to actively challenge what, as we've been reminded, Engels
called social murder and others call structural violence? The latest
example of this being - on the selfsame day last week that Alan Johnson
made his smug speech on New Labour's ineffectual inequalities policies
to the Fabian Society - the announcement from the Institute of Fiscal
Studies that income inequality, the key driver of health inequality in
the UK, is at its highest ever level. This is an absolute disgrace under
a Labour government - especially one that claims to want to reduce
health and other inequalities.
So no more quotes, please, tedious or otherwise - but lots more proposed
remedies.
With anticipatory thanks, Alex
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