The regeneration of Grater Pollok enters a new phase on Monday with the first new store to open at the Silverburn Shopping Centre in Pollok.
God, the future is a load of shite! Supermarket work is for teenagers, not adults with families to feed. The unemployment figures look so low, do you know why, retail, retail, retail. Cheap retail jobs filling up the places taken by the real jobs in industry. Yes, industry remember it? Oh yeah, that Dickensian thing with children sweating over dangerous machinery, a nightmare it was, was it? And the closures were explained away, come on do we really use steel any more, or drive cars, or use TV sets? Come on people, these are old fashioned things, that the Chinese can make for us! And thousands were laid off, people who were paid real wages for real jobs. And spent real money as well. Even high tech died off, mostly. The replacement they promised us to end the poverty all around.
People in this country like to delude themselfs that the retail sector is some kind of great future, malls, supermarkets, all praised by the media. Especially the Evening Times for some reason, Regeneration they call it. And if you criticise this golden future, well you are 'wrong' pure and simple, you need to mature! To grow up! For daring to question the accepted doctrine.
Well let me say this, retail jobs pay low wages, that is a truth. Retail jobs demand very few skills, another truth. Retail jobs do not have UNIONS, there is another truth. The most important one perhaps, because the establishment have to hang on dont they? They dont want any challenge...
These are worse jobs than the ones they replaced, does nobody see this? We are going back in time, not forward, kept at the level just able to buy the products they sell, but not any better off. And given dreams of money 24h a day on TV, buy this sell this! And if you cant do that, take a loan, then take another one to pay for that, then another..
I know I keep on repeating myself but this delusion has gone on for far too long, its time to wake up! I may be a 'stuck record' but the track I play is an important one that has to be heard...
In fact, best to ignore me...