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Labour Pledges To Restore The Rights Of Unions …

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naomi24 | 17:58 Wed 12th Dec 2018 | News
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..to take sympathy action in support of workers in other countries.

That bodes well for peace in the workplace under a Labour government. The shape of things to come … if we’re very unlucky.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/08/john-mcdonnell-labour-will-let-workers-taking-sympathy-action-for-overseas-counterparts
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...to pay you for...
...for the moral posturing.

(Get a grip, VE.)
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Sorry, that^ to Theland.
So I thought, Naomi.

PS: Good evening, Theland.
Whats wrong with a level playing field?
another bright idea that has no reasoning about it at all.
Just another excuse to skive off!
Suddenly I feel like a Seventies revival is happening, where did I put my dayglo and wedges.
Only those who remember it will be worried, there will be a lot of naive younger folk who think its an idea that will support world change etc.....
You only have to look at those sitting opposite the Tories to realise that as much as the Tories are in turmoil at the moment, they remain the only viable option. This says much more about Labour than it does the Conservatives.

Thatcher did the country an enormous favour by stifling union power and outlawing sympathy strikes, given that some of our largest industries and companies were dogged by the Vic Spanner's of the world.

I can remember reading something by Dominic Sandbrook where he describes a strike in the 70s in a factory because a dead cat was found.

Sympathy strikes in the UK was bad enough, but striking in sympathy for foreign workers is just batsiht crazy.

Still - what do we expect when HM's Official Opposition is led by a 70s throwback marxist hippy, which has a shadow chancellor who loves Mao's little red book (yes, the Mao who murdered millions and millions of his own people), and even Ken Livingstone in the GLC days thought he was too left wing, and a shadow home secretary in Diane Abbott, who has to be just about the most over-promoted moron ever.

Still, as has been said, if Gulliver thinks it's a good idea, you can guarantee it isn't.
TTT - re your dear Mrs Thatcher. Have you ever been to formerly prosperous mining communities and seen what they're like now, thanks to that evil woman?
^^^As has been said on this site many many times before....Labour closed more pits than Thatcher did.

It is simple numbers - when it costs more to mine coal than it can be sold for, you stop mining for it, otherwise it is the economics of the madhouse.
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diddlydo, Harold Wilson closed more mines than Mrs Thatcher - around twice as many.

sandyRoe, //Whats wrong with a level playing field? //

How does this create a level playing field and for whom does it create it?
"TT - re your dear Mrs Thatcher. Have you ever been to formerly prosperous mining communities and seen what they're like now, thanks to that evil woman? " - they got led over a cliff by Scargill, anyway Labour closed more pits than the Tories.
More of the usual economic claptrap from Corbyn & McDonnell, the Marx & Spender of the Labour world.
Several of you miss my point - it was the awful Thatcher who caused the violence at the pits and alienated whole communities who have never recovered from her actions.
Diddlydo, They should have dropped her down one of those pits, and filled it in.
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diddlydo, we didn't miss your point. You were mistaken.
// Only those who remember it will be worried, there will be a lot of naive younger folk who think its an idea that will support world change //

Yes, scary isn't it. I've said before that the only way to get rid of Corbyn might be for him to get into power so that a new generation can learn for themselves what a godawful disaster old school socialism would be.

Then we can forget about it again for another forty years, if not for good.
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That would be a hard lesson for everyone, Ludwig. Doesn't bear thinking of.
diddly: "it was the awful Thatcher who caused the violence at the pits " - flying pickets trying to stop people legally going about their business. Would you rather thugs controlled the streets? Like these perhaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_David_Wilkie

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