[Politics] Do we need a General Strike?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Do we need a General Strike?​

Nah, we need UK workers to take their cue from French workers and get angry and start burning stuff. Only language governments understand. Tho hmgov will have already factored in that UK workers are too meek and mild and generally subservient to ever do that

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

Do we need a General Strike?​

Nah, we need UK workers to take their cue from French workers and get angry and start burning stuff. Only language governments understand. Tho hmgov will have already factored in that UK workers are too meek and mild and generally subservient to ever do that

A general strike would be far more effective than burning stuff - the reason that happens in France is that only about 8% of the French workforce are in trade unions - less than a quarter of that in the UK. A general strike in the UK would cripple transport, communications and energy and would collapse the Tory government within hours.

The problem is that the TUC leadership are right-wing Blairites who won't get off their a*ses because they know they would not be able to control any movement that would emerge from a general strike - a strike that would catapult the likes of Sharon Graham, Mick Lynch, Dave Ward, Mark Serwotka and Matt Wrack into the leadership of the TUC, shifting it significantly to the left.