DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Who's in charge, PM - you or the unions? trends now
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With strikes infecting almost every corner of everyday life, an exasperated public could be forgiven for asking the question: Who, if anyone, is running Britain?
Nurses, ambulance drivers, rail workers, teachers, civil servants – even coffin makers – are walking out in pursuit of stratospheric and completely unrealistic pay claims.
Their union leaders weep crocodile tears over the hardship they are inflicting on a long-suffering public. It is rank hypocrisy.
The more that millions of lives are disrupted, the more these hard-Left wreckers believe their hand is strengthened – and the more likely the Government is to cave in to their demands.
Nurses, ambulance drivers, and rail workers are walking out in pursuit of unrealistic pay claims
For, make no mistake, this choreographed series of mainly public-sector strikes is motivated by politics as much as greed.
By seeking to bring Britain to its knees, they aim to hole the Tories below the waterline, allowing their Labour brothers to sweep into office at the next election.
Up to now, the Government has put up embarrassingly little resistance in the face of a concerted onslaught by union barons. So do they have any plan to crack down on this wave of militancy and get the country moving again? What's their big idea?
In the months since their disastrous and incomprehensible decision to topple Boris Johnson, the Tories have looked rudderless and unclear about their sense of purpose.
Now Rishi Sunak has a formidable task to stamp his authority on the party and articulate a broad and
