Another Trade Union Act? They have just had one. They are admitting their own failure, as indeed what they have already seen as the need of any further legislation after Margaret Thatcher has been their admission of her failure in her own terms.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are both committed to banning strikes altogether, and nothing else was ever going to do. That would be what yet another Act would have to say, and while it may go through the motions of voting against it, although do not bet on that, the Labour Party would have no policy of repealing it.
Of course people are still voting to strike despite its having been made enormously difficult. It is not some wild militancy for a trade union to fight for its members' pay to keep pace with price inflation, and that in companies that were both hugely profitable and heavily subsidised.
Employees of those companies are having to claim Universal Credit. How is that at all acceptable? Since their wages have not been going up, then that cannot be the cause of inflation. It must be something else.
Spot on.
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