Smells of 2012

At present there is trouble in the streets of Edinburgh, the council at war with the refuse collectors over a variation in employment contracts and conditions. As such, the bin-men are on a work to rule of some description, resulting the council employing private contractors to deal with the overflowing communal wheelie bins which are seemingly attracting rats and suchlike in ever increasing quantities.

The local paper, the Edinburgh Evening News, last night reported that one of the refuse collectors , a character called Paul French, has been suspended from duty for writing a letter to the publication where he was openly critical of council officials and indeed has the audacity to questions their honesty. It also appears that he regularly comments on the EN website using the moniker, "Paul the binman", which is also not going down too well. (Evening News bin man is suspended)

I am also dumbfounded at some of the other commenters, perhaps agent provocateurs, who correspond via the medium of the aforementioned tabloid web-site, supporting the council and criticising Paul and his colleagues, calling them lazy and suchlike, whilst insinuating they "should be glad to have a job", whatever the terms and conditions might be. Surely most thinking humans can see where this will all end in the not-2-distant future.

What we see here in action by Edinburgh council is an effort to impose a new totalitarian regime, where an individuals employment contract can be altered, for the worse as far as the individual is concerned, and, furthermore, should he have the cheek to publically express his views, then he shall be suspended from duty and face disciplinary action, perhaps even the sack.

What is synchronistic for me, given my ongoing thinking regarding Prince William and the New World Order, is the type of refuse collection vehicle utilised by the private contractors, the Phoenix Mark 2, manufactured by Dennis Eagle, the logo as above. It surely suggests an Oz, as in the Wizard, the phoenix angle speaking for itself in the light of previous posts.

cheers

Top image from the BBC, Generation 2012, an ongoing story about 4 young people growing up alongside the London Olympic development.