I’m of a certain age. You would get good money for me if I went on Vinted. So, I remember only too well the nightmare of the industrial unrest which gripped the Callaghan government of the seventies with its most potent symbol being the uncollected rubbish strewn all over the country, including Leicester Square.
My young family and I decided we could do better than live under the militant yoke of trade unions and fled to America where I landed a job on the New York Post. By the time I returned Labour had paid the price for never-ending strikes (you couldn’t even bury the dead) and the nation was now being led by an exciting political revolutionary of the right….Margaret Thatcher.
The sun shone again.
Union mayhem, bins uncollected, Labour collapsing - have we gone back in time? - Kelvin MacKenzie
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Clock forward to Birmingham four decades on and once again we have all the ingredients of yesteryear. A weak Labour government. A power-mad trade union leader in the shape of Unite’s Sharon Graham and the street of our second city strewn with rubbish.
And I confidently forecast the same result.
Other union leaders, like the Marxist representing the teachers who hate Israel but love Palestinians, will see opportunity to sow discord, the train drivers will be well up for it as will NHS employees and our old chums in the civil service.
The nation will grind to a halt. A triumph for the left. Fortunately, a General Election will do what it has always done to the militants of Labour and throw them out and once again putting into No.10 a political revolutionary of the right….Nigel Farage.
What is incredible about the Birmingham dispute is that the jobs the council want to downgrade (no other council has these jobs) were only introduced to end a major dispute with Unite back in 2017. Sounds like the seventies doesn’t it. Sharon Graham sees this strike as a test of her leadership.
Not sure that the union halfwits running the UK into the ground realise that that by making life impossible as they did in the dysfunctional Seventies all they are guaranteeing is their own destruction.
Take that new militant on the block Daniel Kebede. His National Education Union held an annual conference where their most important decision was to label Reform "far-right and racist" and pledged funds to oppose Reform candidates in the election.
Labour will pay the price for breaking Britain and Nigel Farage will be the beneficiary.
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How will they feel when the Runcorn by-election takes place in a couple of weeks where I guarantee that Labour’s 16th safest seat in the country will fall to Farage. Labour voters are all racists as wellare they? Ridiculous.
And how will the country react if train drivers, already earning an absurd £93K, decided to join in the mayhem having received a massive increase only a few months back without any move on productivity.
I trust the public rises up and offer to drive the train themselves. It’s an unskilled job. Literally anybody can learn to be driver in a matter of days.
Two thirds of Britain, according to that Sun poll, believe Britain is broken and "heading in the wrong direction." How could you disagree with that?
Currently we have a Prime Minister who believes women can have penises, a Deputy Prime Minister who wants new employment laws which gives maternity rights from Day One meaning an employee can hide their pregnancy and then tell their boss in their first week that in a matter of months she will be away on the majority of her pay for the rest of the year. And probably won’t be back.
An absolute nightmare. Labour will pay a shocking price in the various elections but can’t be removed until 2029. Until then expect the number of rats to increase. Mainly employed by Unite.
