[Travel] Mick lynch

[Westdene Seagull]

On an ever so slightly tongue in cheek comment - but is it possible to picket from home?

What would happen if Mrs el punal crossed the picket line ?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Sir K has upset the masses....

Sharon Graham, leader of Unite the Union, which has more than a million members, said Labour was "becoming more and more irrelevant to ordinary working people".

The TSSA Transport Union, of which Mr Tarry is a former member, said Labour was "deluded" if it thought it could win the next election "while pushing away 7 million trade union members".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62329521

I think this might be termed as 'an own goal' in the football parlance.

 

[el punal]

What would happen if Mrs el punal crossed the picket line ?

Armageddon springs to mind.

 

[el punal]

Sir K has upset the masses....

Sharon Graham, leader of Unite the Union, which has more than a million members, said Labour was "becoming more and more irrelevant to ordinary working people".

The TSSA Transport Union, of which Mr Tarry is a former member, said Labour was "deluded" if it thought it could win the next election "while pushing away 7 million trade union members".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62329521

I think this might be termed as 'an own goal' in the football parlance.

What are “ordinary working people” for goodness sake? In my view anyone that goes out to work to earn a crust is a working person. Can we have less of this class distinctive pre-1970s label - it’s a redundant description that went out with whippets, cloth caps and tin baths.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Meanwhile Labour sack one of their junior transport ministers….for in his words ‘‘joining a picket line’’…..things ain’t what they used to be

In a statement Labour said it would "always stand up for working people fighting for better pay, terms and conditions at work".
"This isn't about appearing on a picket line. Members of the front bench sign up to collective responsibility. That includes media appearances being approved and speaking to agreed frontbench positions.
"As a government in waiting, any breach of collective responsibility is taken extremely seriously and for these reasons Sam Tarry has been removed from the frontbench."
Responding to his dismissal, Mr Tarry - a supporter of the former leader Jeremy Corbyn - thanked Sir Keir for "the last two and a half years" on the front bench, but said it was "a real shame" he had been removed for "joining a picket line".

Even though the leadership had already qualified it was for going against the agreed front bench position.

Good to see a real leader carrying out his convictions instead of porking and partying through lockdown or desperately clinging on to the ERG having once been a Lib Dem.


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[Is it PotG?]

RMT boss Mick Lynch told Times Radio that Labour would only be able to reclaim its traditional heartlands if it could “identify with working class people’s needs and their campaigns”.

He too attacked the Labour leader, accusing Starmer of “playing up to the agenda of Liz Truss and the right wing press”.

Lynch said: “I think (it’s) a bit of an outrage and I think many Labour Party members, union activists and people are looking for a change.”

He added: “If (Starmer) can’t identify with that then he’s got no chance of winning back those seats and therefore he’s got no chance of being Prime Minister.”

Fellow frontbenchers Kate Osborne and Paula Barker also challenged Starmer’s authority by joining picket lines, and Labour MPs on the left of the party tweeted their support for Tarry after his sacking.

John McDonnell tweeted: “This must be the first Labour MP to be removed from his frontbench position for joining a trade union picket line to support workers.”

Kate Osamor said: “Solidarity, Sam Tarry. The Labour Party exists to fight for ordinary people. We must never lose sight of that.”

 

[Springal]

Load of fluff. Either that or union members would be stupid to directly or indirectly back the same Tories they are striking against

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Even though the leadership had already qualified it was for going against the agreed front bench position.

Good to see a real leader carrying out his convictions instead of porking and partying through lockdown or desperately clinging on to the ERG having once been a Lib Dem.


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Precisely.

This is being spun, even on the BBC, as the leader sacking the bloke for going on a picket line then pretending its for another reason, thereby showing weak leadership. FFS!

Essentially they are choosing to follow the narrative presented by the sacked man.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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I have spent the last 20 minutes searching for evidence that Mick Lynch is a labour party supporter. I can find no evidence. He is in record as an admirer of Arthur Scargill, and Jeremy Corbyn. Lots of people who are not members of the labour party backed Corbyn. I can't find one claim that Lynch is even a member of the labour party.

He is entitled to lead his union, but he has no say in how the country should be run, no matter how eagerly the Mail and the mad left (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/26/pvlt-j26.html) use Lynch as a stick with which to beat labour. Apparently "Starmer has witch-hunted thousands of left-wing Labour members out of the party on spurious charges."

Christ. We have just lived through several years of an egregiously lying prime minister. Now that Labour have become a force again we have an egregiously lying media, frothing in an attempt to paint Starmer as the enemy of the dear humble striking worker. You couldn't make it up.

 

[vegster]

I have spent the last 20 minutes searching for evidence that Mick Lynch is a labour party supporter. I can find no evidence. He is in record as an admirer of Arthur Scargill, and Jeremy Corbyn. Lots of people who are not members of the labour party backed Corbyn. I can't find one claim that Lynch is even a member of the labour party.

He is entitled to lead his union, but he has no say in how the country should be run, no matter how eagerly the Mail and the mad left (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/26/pvlt-j26.html) use Lynch as a stick with which to beat labour. Apparently "Starmer has witch-hunted thousands of left-wing Labour members out of the party on spurious charges."

Christ. We have just lived through several years of an egregiously lying prime minister. Now that Labour have become a force again we have an egregiously lying media, frothing in an attempt to paint Starmer as the enemy of the dear humble striking worker. You couldn't make it up.

" They do " !

 

[LamieRobertson]

Even though the leadership had already qualified it was for going against the agreed front bench position.

Good to see a real leader carrying out his convictions instead of porking and partying through lockdown or desperately clinging on to the ERG having once been a Lib Dem.


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….and it’s Angela’s boyfriend (allegedly)

 

[LamieRobertson]

I have spent the last 20 minutes searching for evidence that Mick Lynch is a labour party supporter. I can find no evidence. He is in record as an admirer of Arthur Scargill, and Jeremy Corbyn. Lots of people who are not members of the labour party backed Corbyn. I can't find one claim that Lynch is even a member of the labour party.

He is entitled to lead his union, but he has no say in how the country should be run, no matter how eagerly the Mail and the mad left (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/26/pvlt-j26.html) use Lynch as a stick with which to beat labour. Apparently "Starmer has witch-hunted thousands of left-wing Labour members out of the party on spurious charges."

Christ. We have just lived through several years of an egregiously lying prime minister. Now that Labour have become a force again we have an egregiously lying media, frothing in an attempt to paint Starmer as the enemy of the dear humble striking worker. You couldn't make it up.

Steady on

 

[Is it PotG?]

….and it’s Angela’s boyfriend (allegedly)

No idea, but I do recall this from 2020

 

[A1X]

August 13th just announced- that’s ****ed the Toon game now����

Given it's made it harder for Newcastle fans to turn up in any number, some might say it's actually improved the Toon game.

 

[WATFORD zero]

It is somewhat amusing seeing the exact same posters who could never agree with Corbyn because he was too left wing, now berating Starmer for not being left wing enough.

I really can't imagine why, but I'm sure it will be for considered, thought out reasons and not simply the colour of the rosette

 

[Is it PotG?]

It is somewhat amusing seeing the exact same posters who could never agree with Corbyn because he was too left wing, now berating Starmer for not being left wing enough.

I really can't imagine why, but I'm sure it will be for considered, thought out reasons and not simply the colour of the rosette

Looks like he's upset Diane too.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Partridge (in the form of Madeley) in a heated tête-à-tête with the Strikemeister on ITV this morning, worth the licence fee alone.

 

[portslade seagull]

It will be great when Labour win the next election and then suffer an internal war between the luvvie leftie Londonite Corbynistas and the moderates.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

It will be great when Labour win the next election and then suffer an internal war between the luvvie leftie Londonite Corbynistas and the moderates.

I prefer Liberal Metropolitan Elite.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Starmer is on a hiding to nothing with this one.

The Tories know the Labour left will do their job for them by undermining Starmer for failing to back the Unions.
If he does back the Unions, the Media will start peddling the same old tired lies that Labour will bankrupt the country to appease their Socialist masters.
Meanwhile the Tories continue to run the country into the ground with less focus on their many failings.

I just wish for once, the Centre left and the left could work together to fight the common enemy.

Lynch is doing a fantastic job fighting the Tories from the Workers/Left position
Starmer is doing a decent job from the Political/Centre left position.

Steer clear of fighting each other and they will all get the result they want.

Let's not f*** this up, this time.