You probably did not see on television yesterday's huge demonstration against the Government's theft of the firemen's pensions and against Penny Mordaunt's flagrant lying to Parliament about it. You would have had to have watched RT.
But it happened. Kate Hoey addressed the rally and called for Labour to make a manifesto commitment to right the wrong. Quite right.
The FBU, like the RMT not affiliated to Labour since the Blair Dark Age but affiliated to the LRC that is constitutionally committed to the election of a Labour Government, ought to promise to fund any Labour candidate who made that commitment in his or her Election Address.
As should the RMT, on the renationalisation of the railways and on various matters of dispute with, especially, Transport for London, at least in that latter case with regard to those seeking election in London.
Now, when are the unions going to buy the Telegraph?
Why wasn't the FBU equally vocal in protesting against Labour's imposition of politically correct female quotas which demanded that 14% of all firefighters must be women, reducing height, strength and fitness requirements and thus sacrificing public safety on the altar of political correctness?
ReplyDeleteBy failing to make any noise about that, but only complaining when their pay packets are affected, they give the strong impression of not giving a damn about anyone but themselves.
Far be it from trade unions to put the wellbeing of their members above that of the public eh?
Trade unions exist for the well-being of their members. That is what they are for. In this case, of course, that is also the well-being of the public.
DeleteAs for your main "point", someone in UKIP has made that up for you. Or copied it out of the Daily Mail, which in turn had made it up. That happens quite a lot.
You would have reintegrated the FBU and RMT by now, maybe still unaffiliated but funding the party and dozens of CLPs. This is all Neil Fleming's fault.
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of the unions buying the Torygraph.