Despite first glance, this is not a pro-union song, if you read between the lines. In the 70s the UK was rife with strikes. This was a topic of film and TV. In Carry On - At Your Convenience, the shop steward was perpetually calling his fellows out on strike for the most trivial reasons, no sugar for the tea etc. Monty Python\'s Flying Circus had the country devastated by the theatre critics strike. In Fawlty Towers - The Kipper and the Corpse. the Major reads in the newspaper about another car strike. Basil\'s comment was "if they don\'t like making cars, why don\'t they get a job designing cathedrals or composing violin concertos. The British Leyland concerto in four movements, all of them slow, with a four hour tea break in between".
Despite first glance, this is not a pro-union song, if you read between the lines. In the 70s the UK was rife with strikes. This was a topic of film and TV. In Carry On - At Your Convenience, the shop steward was perpetually calling his fellows out on strike for the most trivial reasons, no sugar for the tea etc. Monty Python\'s Flying Circus had the country devastated by the theatre critics strike. In Fawlty Towers - The Kipper and the Corpse. the Major reads in the newspaper about another car strike. Basil\'s comment was "if they don\'t like making cars, why don\'t they get a job designing cathedrals or composing violin concertos. The British Leyland concerto in four movements, all of them slow, with a four hour tea break in between".