Interesting how, when it came to closing the mines in the 70s and 80s with limited unemployment support and without any means of helping workers transition to other means of employment, effectively damning millions of people in mostly northern ex-mining towns to decades of

economic stagnation, the right-wing press just said “businesses should be allowed to fail”. Yet when workers don’t want to commute 10 hours a week, work in cramped offices during a literal pandemic and choose to work at home but at the expense of billionaire corporate landlords

based in big cities, it’s the workers that are lazy for not propping up an outdated economic model that should probably never have existed in the first place. When regular people are the ones to suffer “that’s just the way it is” but when it’s the elite being punished

it’s apparently everyone else that’s in the wrong for looking after themselves? The Daily Mail can get fucked.

There was zero outrage from these people when economies reliant on mining were left to fend for themselves but they are asking employees to pick up the economic slack now. It is not the workers’ fault that the powers that be didn’t learn their lesson about

having entire geographies reliant on one type of industry. If you don’t want city centres to be ghost towns when people don’t work in the office then maybe you should consider why nobody actually LIVES there. There isn’t enough housing and what housing there is, is too expensive.