Published: July 20th 2009 - at 10:15 amProtestors to mock Boris’s “chickenfeed”
Unison members at the Greater London Authority (GLA) will be inviting the public to chuck feed at a chicken man representing Boris Johnson during a protest over job cuts. Tuesday’s picnic protest will kick off a series of events leading up to a rally in October.
Regional Officer, Shirley Mills, said: “Boris ‘two jobs’ Johnson described his £250,000 second job as “chicken feed”, while slashing jobs of low-paid workers. Leo Boland, the GLA Chief Executive, is also earning over £205,000, £10,000 more than the Prime Minister. It is disgusting that these two wallow in their huge wages while low paid staff face the axe.”
Protest: 12.20pm on Tuesday (21 July) at Potters Field, City Hall, The Queens Walk, SE1 2AA.
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Private Eye depicts Boris as Dennis the Menace, LC depicts him as Rasher, Dennis’s pig. I think PE does funny better than Sunny.
Johnson deserves all the stick ( or feed pellets) you chuck at him but really, isn’t sticking Boris’s head on a pig a bit, well, speciest (if that’s the right spelling).
Churchill famously said cats looked down on us, dogs looked up, and pigs looked us in the eye but I’ve never seen an expression like that on a pig!
So is this protest against job losses or Johnson’s tactlessness? Can’t really see the point of a protest over the latter. If it’s the former then I don’t see the point of highlighting Johnson’s comments – the situation wouldn’t be any different if he’d kept quiet. Better perhaps to make the argument against cuts? Argue that they weren’t necessary and explain why?
Which jobs and how many are being “slashed”?
“Leo Boland, the GLA Chief Executive, is also earning over £205,000, £10,000 more than the Prime Minister. It is disgusting that these two wallow in their huge wages while low paid staff face the axe.””
I’m glad people accept that Gordon Brown won’t be PM after the next general election.
The piggy poster was made by Unison, not me.
The comments is Boris’s Mrie Antoinette moment.
According to Personnel Today, in Jul 2008
Unison’s boss Dave Prentis earned £89,502 plus £34,993 in benefits.
That was last year, so it will be more now. Not chicken feed either, but Prentis is in the Boris League is he not, rather than that of the average Unison worker.
Do Unison have any rational arguments against the cuts, and if so why was there no summary of, or link to, them?
Sunny: “The piggy poster was made by Unison, not me.”
That is not an excuse. The image is childish and does not support “chickenfeed” arguments or those of Unison. It might support a “snouts in trough” argument but would still be juvenile.
Unison protest PR:
http://www.unison.org.uk/asppresspack/pressrelease_view.asp?id=1503
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