Have a generation of Union leaders lost their Marbles?

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Biggest strike in a generation?

They certainly don’t do History, do they? It’s like the rebirth of Red Robbo, the infamous British Motor Corporation (BMC) and all that. Campbeds at the ready for the night shift and all that. Sir Michael Edwards, British Leyland and all that.

   A quick shufti at the model range courtesy of Wikipedia and Battista Farina, called in by BMC to redesign the entire model range back in those days (circa 1950s) and a fair few of the models would not look out of place today with a few modified body panels. Are we any further forward in making a cheap efficient runabout for the public at large, not forgetting the Swatch Company’s attempts at a plastic pig of a Smart Car and the Delboy Reliant Van? Things have not moved on, even as the car makers attempt to make it as hard as possible to maintain a vehicle yourself. Whilst the Unions sit contemplating their navels.

   Yep contemplating their navels, as the carmakers now freed of this aggravation, try to cream off the lion’s share of what it takes to keep a vehicle on the road. In the face of secondhand motor sales and all the rackets it encourages, like clocking and bodging by the unscrupulous wheeler-dealers the trade attracts. So to get back to the Union aspect of all this, the history lessons I spoke of and the examples from the past which seem to be lost, on the current crop of so-called Union Leaders.

   They have learned nothing other than how to live the good life, on the back of their member’s subscriptions. Whilst they try to bring the country to a standstill and hark back to the dark days of Arthur Scargill’s infamous Miners Strike of ’84 that got the Unions exactly nowhere. Other than a place where they are still trying to live, in total ignorance of past lessons and what seems like an abiding desire to bring this Great Britain to its knees. Whilst looking for the kind of perks enjoyed only by Greeks.

   Maybe they think it would be great to be able to sit back and wait for the EU and the IMF to come to the rescue, in the way they are trying to do with this Greek Tragedy of Errors. There can be little or nothing left in their locker, as they try to mount what they claim will be the ‘Biggest strike in a generation’. It has to be the absolute daftest idea anyone could come up with, to benefit the populace in our present situation.

Watch this space I’ll be back!

Tom