As Jacob Rees-Mogg calls them.
Known to the rest of us as the EDL, whom he clearly wants to bring "very much back" to the Conservative Party as surely as his heroine once did.
And like all the rest of them today, he is dredging up the half-memory of Reagan and the air traffic controllers. But, among many things that could be said on that score, Reagan had a complete set of fully trained and qualified air traffic controllers ready, willing and able to be appointed in place of the strikers.
Where is the complete set of fully trained and qualified people ready, willing and able to fill each and every one of today two million strikers' jobs, up to and including as headteachers, radiographers, meteorologists, First Division civil servants, and so on?
Does he want to bring in the EDL to do all of those jobs as well? Very much back, indeed.
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Controllers are not public sector
ReplyDeletethey are not striking
I know, but Jacob Rees-Mogg brought uo the famous, if generally misunderstood, case when they took strike action against Reagan: "Do to these what he did to those, sack the lot and replace them all." But you can't this time. It can't be done.
ReplyDeleteWhat an articulate, eloquent, learned and courteous man Jacob Rees-Mogg MP is, unlike the rabble on Lanchester Parish Council.
ReplyDeleteRather a Jacob than a Jacobin.
If there has ever been a rabble on that, then it must have been before my time, which goes back to 1999.
ReplyDeleteJacobins? Hardly! The Old Labour machine in County Durham, two partially dislocated pieces of it, the remnant of a body of paleocon councillors from the old Distrct Council, and a Tory farmer. There will be no Revolution here for quite some time yet.