If you know anything about Britain in the 70s you will know that Trade Unions were not protecting anyone from anything. They were exploiting ridiculous labour laws to hold the whole country hostage to the point where we didn't even have enough power so that everyone could have electricity. They drove the country to the point of bankruptcy! Your username indicates that maybe you think that kind of clusterfuck is actually a good thing, but for me if that is the enemy of capitalism then give me capitalism every day of the week.
If you know anything about Britain in the 70s you will know that Trade Unions were not protecting anyone from anything. They were exploiting ridiculous labour laws to hold the whole country hostage to the point where we didn't even have enough power so that everyone could have electricity. They drove the country to the point of bankruptcy! Your username indicates that maybe you think that kind of clusterfuck is actually a good thing, but for me if that is the enemy of capitalism then give me capitalism every day of the week.
@Rommie you're talking twoddle, mate, the oil crisis left us without electricity, and that was certainly nothing to do with the unions. The N.U.M. strike was called because British miners were being paid 8% less than their European counterparts and the government attempted to hide that. The country was driven to bankruptcy by the inadequacy and incompetence of governments of both red and blue stripes. Unions did what they always have done and what they were set up to do: protect their workers and fight for fair working conditions and wages. Clearly, even before Covid, neoliberalism and the society with...
@Rommie you're talking twoddle, mate, the oil crisis left us without electricity, and that was certainly nothing to do with the unions. The N.U.M. strike was called because British miners were being paid 8% less than their European counterparts and the government attempted to hide that. The country was driven to bankruptcy by the inadequacy and incompetence of governments of both red and blue stripes. Unions did what they always have done and what they were set up to do: protect their workers and fight for fair working conditions and wages. Clearly, even before Covid, neoliberalism and the society with diminished trade union power didn't do much to improve the British economy. Maybe you missed the ten years of austerity (which killed 130,000 Britons [United Nations]) and the financial crash, but the rest of us certainly didn't because we're stuck in the real world. Get your facts straight and get lost, Tory rich-kid.
Yeah, a massive fail! Who on earth would want to protect workers from the greed of capitalism?
If you know anything about Britain in the 70s you will know that Trade Unions were not protecting anyone from anything. They were exploiting ridiculous labour laws to hold the whole country hostage to the point where we didn't even have enough power so that everyone could have electricity. They drove the country to the point of bankruptcy! Your username indicates that maybe you think that kind of clusterfuck is actually a good thing, but for me if that is the enemy of capitalism then give me capitalism every day of the week.
If you know anything about Britain in the 70s you will know that Trade Unions were not protecting anyone from anything. They were exploiting ridiculous labour laws to hold the whole country hostage to the point where we didn't even have enough power so that everyone could have electricity. They drove the country to the point of bankruptcy! Your username indicates that maybe you think that kind of clusterfuck is actually a good thing, but for me if that is the enemy of capitalism then give me capitalism every day of the week.
@Rommie you're talking twoddle, mate, the oil crisis left us without electricity, and that was certainly nothing to do with the unions. The N.U.M. strike was called because British miners were being paid 8% less than their European counterparts and the government attempted to hide that. The country was driven to bankruptcy by the inadequacy and incompetence of governments of both red and blue stripes. Unions did what they always have done and what they were set up to do: protect their workers and fight for fair working conditions and wages. Clearly, even before Covid, neoliberalism and the society with...
@Rommie you're talking twoddle, mate, the oil crisis left us without electricity, and that was certainly nothing to do with the unions. The N.U.M. strike was called because British miners were being paid 8% less than their European counterparts and the government attempted to hide that. The country was driven to bankruptcy by the inadequacy and incompetence of governments of both red and blue stripes. Unions did what they always have done and what they were set up to do: protect their workers and fight for fair working conditions and wages. Clearly, even before Covid, neoliberalism and the society with diminished trade union power didn't do much to improve the British economy. Maybe you missed the ten years of austerity (which killed 130,000 Britons [United Nations]) and the financial crash, but the rest of us certainly didn't because we're stuck in the real world. Get your facts straight and get lost, Tory rich-kid.