Monday 20 June 2022 01:37 AM DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Stand firm in the face of union bullying, Boris trends now
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‘We are in a class struggle now. Are you going to be with us or sit on the sidelines while these Tories butcher the working classes? Stand up and fight!’
There is something tragically pathetic about the inflammatory, prehistoric rhetoric spewed out by Mick Lynch, the militant RMT union boss behind the rail strikes set to paralyse Britain.
While this tinpot revolutionary indulges his risible Che Guevara fantasies, the grim irony is that the blue-collar workers he professes to champion will suffer most.
Employees able to work from home on Zoom won’t mind the chaos. But for millions – invariably the lowest paid – that’s simply not an option. If they can’t travel to their workplaces, their jobs and businesses will be jeopardised – and they’ll struggle to pay their bills and feed their families.
While tinpot revolutionary Lynch (pictured on Saturday) indulges his risible Che Guevara fantasies, the grim irony is that the blue-collar workers he professes to champion will suffer
And what if police officers, nurses, firefighters and others vital to saving lives are prevented from doing their jobs? The consequences could be devastating.
By walking out on three alternate days, the hard-Left unions will inflict a whole week of misery on the travelling public.
The ingratitude to taxpayers, who shovelled £16billion into the railways during lockdown to keep them operating when trains were virtually empty, is staggering.
Of course, widespread industrial action will ultimately pile on the pain for the union members themselves – as it did during the Winter of Discontent in
