Union Bosses Threaten To Use Jeremy Corbyn's Victory To Cripple Uk

[naomi24]

//Rob Williams, of the National Shop Stewards Network, said his members would “take down” Mr Cameron. He said: “The victory yesterday by Jeremy Corbyn has changed everything. The vote we saw yesterday was a political revolution. We must build a mass movement against austerity and the anti-union laws.

“The message must be simple – 'Cameron: we are going to take you down. Your anti-union Bill and your cuts, you’re going down because we are mobilising against you’. //

Out of touch with the electorate is an understatement. Corbyn supporters are living in the past.

[Baldric]

Welcome to the 70's, Labours natural habitat!

[-Talbot-]

I take it you agree with professional scabs?

[Retrochic]

Yes agreed they truly are. It will be the death of the New Labour party and I wonder what sort of party will rise up out of the Flames once the 'Socialist Worker Party' lead by Corbyn breaks away. When will Union leaders realise this is not 1972,things have changed.

[Retrochic]

Talbot "professional scabs" lol! are you out of your comfort zone in the 21st century?

[naomi24]

It makes me sick that people like this can even consider attempting to bring an elected government down by using bully boy tactics and creating mayhem for millions of ordinary working people. They may have the support of other wonky-thinking Corbyn supporters but they don’t have the support of the electorate at large. Their actions will be the final nail in the coffin of the Labour Party.

[jim360]

Ho hum. The left -- as in the proper left, not my tame version of it -- are just morons.

[anotheoldgit]

In light of this threat, isn't it welcoming that the Trade Union Bill, yesterday passed it's second reading in the Commons. The sooner it is passed by the House of Lords the better.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trade-union-bill-passes-second-reading-in-commons-by-317-votes-to-284-10501088.html

[Zacs-Master]

Roll up roll up, come see the Marxist idiots crawl out from under their stones. Cue an internal within the Labour Party which will, hopefully, see Corby and his anachronistic cabinet toppled faster than I had hoped.

[Zacs-Master]

Internal war

[mushroom25]

it's difficult to know how the unions could succeed with such a strategy.
would a politically motivated action have general public support?
if they did precipitate a parliamentary vote of no confidence and the government fell, would that necessarily guarantee electorate support for a left wing government?

at least in the 1980s the miners had a degree of public support, even then the strike failed. what chance now when the miners union - and others who had the necessary muscle - are nopw an insignificance?

[anotheoldgit]

mushroom25

I don't think the public would have any say in it, tell me, do the public welcome any strikes?

[Retrochic]

never mind the public -a lot of workers don't support strikes but feel obliged to 'come out'. My gran had a cleaner in the 1970's whose OH was a miner and it was a well known fact most of the miners did not want to strike and thought Arthur Scargill's actions would be the death of mining in the UK -which it was.

[youngmafbog]

Well it's no surprise is it? Unions have paid for Comrade Corbyn and will want pay-back. If Corbyn ever did win PM then he would simply be a puppet for Watson and the Union cronies. He is rather embarrassingly very out of his depth and being walked over by them

It also seems to be very quiet on here from the resident labour supporters.

I wonder why since they now have the hard left in leadership?

[-Talbot-]

My gran had a cleaner in the 1970's whose OH was a miner


lol lol....then it must be true ....hahaha

[andy-hughes]

I think the media needs to calm down a little of Mr Corbyn's election success.

Everyone is getting their skirts blown up by the fact that the stalking horse won the race - possibly as much by the interference of mischief-makers as by people who genuinely wanted to elect him.

But the simple fact is this - if Labour couldn't get elected with a centre-left leader and profile, they have less than no chance with a hard-line left wing remit - it simply isn't going to happen.

The future will speak of Mr Corbyn as another Michael Foot - a deeply principled man who's theories were utterly out of step with the political world in which he lived.

[ToraToraTora]

....and they are saying Dave's new union laws are not needed! right oh!

[naomi24]

Bouncer, // I can see trouble ahead here for the Cons.
Winter of discontent ahead , get ready for it. //

Does that please you?

[-Talbot-]

Does it please you to see workers rights eroded, naomi?

You say Corbyn supporters are living in the past, but it seems it would please many on here to go back further than the 1970's to the 19th century.

[naomi24]

//Does it please you to see workers rights eroded, naomi? //

It pleases me to see unjustified 'rights' eroded.