Monday 8 September 2008

Is it 1979 already? I

I hate trade unions. A lot.

Of course, the Blessed Margaret stamped hard on these bastards a long time ago, and it seemed like the threat had largely dissipated. Not so, and perhaps we celebrated their demise a little too early, however. For just like Noel Edmonds, football hooliganism and cancer, brain-dead socialism fuckwittedness never really goes away.

For now we hear the TUC bleating on about strikes if their members are only given a 2% pay-rise, which it rather creatively termed "unfair and unjust". They're not there yet...but they will be. Trade unions are notoriously immune to reason, logic and fairness, and unless their demands are not met, they will strike.

And as in the late 1970s, a Labour government will end with the money running out, the threat of industrial action from hysterical unions parading their economic illiteracy almost as a badge of honour, and the whole country seething at socialist mismanagement. Back in June, Tory MP Michael Spicer nailed it perfectly at PMQs:
"Why are there always so many strikes at the end of a Labour Government?"

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