“You hear Mick!” Everyone out! ”
On Monday afternoon, RMT abandoned negotiations and sparked a summer of discontent, forcing us to board a slow-moving train back to the 1970s, without the comforts of cheap beer and good music (Harry Styles in his grandmother’s cardio is the closest we can get to to Glam).
Mick Lynch’s retro press conference smelled so stagnant that all she missed was Jack from the Bus with a pedal in his mouth and a hand around a bird cart, shouting, “What about the workers?” – those labor knights who never they want to strike, but always “have no choice”. After all, three thousand pounds an hour to cut tickets is not much to ask for.
When low pay is commonplace, “What makes your representatives so special?” A footman ran to the press.
We are just jealous!
“The whole country is suffering,” said Mr. Lynch, a bald, tieless man with a compassionate Rottweiler’s mouth around his ankle. The difference with RMT is that he is “ready to fight for what he has.” The rest of us lack “strength” and “ability to organize.”
We are just jealous! Mick may be right: if the authors of the sketches could aspire to more lollipops, maybe I can never afford to ride one of his crowded trains again. Take me back to the 1970s, when Parliament was not broadcast and people had to read sketches – giving us hacks of industrial muscle – and politics was just a class war. The very bourgeois Grant Shaps looked at his Thatcher element in the shipping box: it was a strike, he said, “organized by some of the best paid union barons, representing some of the better paid workers … which will cause misery and chaos. “.
But it’s not the government’s fault, Louise Hay objected to Labor because it “boycotts” the talks? Ms. Haye, who has another happy comeback with hair like Elsie Tanner, presented an impressive performance that sparked waves of doubt in the House: could the government want to turn the clock back to industrial chaos because men like Mick like Scargill – Are fraudsters easy and can the Tories cash in on Labor’s refusal to expose them?
Labor welcomes “our railway workers”
Two Labor MPs asked difficult questions; Shaps claims that the parties in the constituency have both received cash from RMT. Olivia Blake called the strikers “our railroad workers” as if they were NHS saints or sending an ice skating team to the Olympics.
“I love the railroads, too,” Shaps said. “I just want them to work!” Not that the government is cutting money, he insisted, rather fewer people are driving it and if they are not modernizing – ie. they change the staff with computers – they will go the way of the coal mine.
The debate depends on that age-old problem, first diagnosed by Barbara Castle, that when a group of workers takes the country hostage, trying to cling to “what they have,” it hurts all the other workers. This includes nurses, teachers and, yes, sketch writers who will be forced to stay home and watch the Commons on TV, with a cool Watneys Party Seven box.
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