Mick Lynch

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Anyone else here loving his work?

Yes, I just saw that last night - after I started this thread. 😕

Why, Mick, why?

Old school labour. They were always against closer ties, historically, while Heath and Thatch wanted to cosy up. Both socialists and feudal Tories are opposed to neoliberalism, although for different reasons.

At least he's in favour of the ECHR. Unlike MacLean with her bizarre 'hands up who wants one of the democratic crayons ' appeal to the audience, straight out of the big book of KS1 carpet time wrap ups.

He just oozes understanding his brief & authenticity which is so rare in the current Westminster climate.
Loses marks for Brexit voting though of course.

Have you read the RMT website and the six reasons they laid out as to why they encouraged their members to vote Leave?

ML4PM. I think I’m in love with him.

Oh I'm definitely in love with him.

We need someone to say the things he says, calmly, sensibly and repeatedly, just like he is doing. It is unacceptable that full time workers need state benefits because their wage is so low.

Can it be guest presented like Have I Got News For You? Can Brian Blessed be up first?

....well - Brexit is going really well, isn't it?
Not.

He should be Prime Minister.

This Guardian article has a link to some great footage of Mick dealing with some inane questioning from the likes of Kay Burley, Piers Morgan and Richard Madeley.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/23/mick-lynch-rail-union-bruiser-whos-more-than-a-match-for-the-media?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

Depends upon your point of view I suppose. If you're in an job that has suddenly become a shortage occupation (such as lorry drivers) then you may have seen a decent improvement in your pay and conditions.

In any case, socialists see the EU as a big business cartel, that's why they have long opposed it, going back as far as Tony Benn.

And another one...

What the hell? Prejudiced?! Are you quite mad?

OP asked 'Anyone else here loving his work?'

I answered that no, I'm not loving his work because I can't stand him. Now you, and others, are determined that I should have to justify that.

OP isn't being told to justify why she thinks he's great, is she? And she hasn't. But of course that's fine because you agree with her...

It's ridiculous that anyone who doesn't automatically toe the socialist line is vilified on MN, accused of being a DM reader, being a Tory, and god knows what else. The 'DM reader' tag has been thrown around endlessly on this thread as if people can't possibly have a different opinion without having been brainwashed by some rag of a newspaper.

Go and have a look at what saint Mick and his cronies were up to in 2016. Then think about the absolute economic shithole we're currently languishing in. Then try and reconcile that with massive wage demands on the back of huge inflation which is in no small part due to said self-inflicted economic disaster.

I can tell you I've never, ever voted right/Tory in my life and almost certainly never will. My own (Tory) MP has blocked me on Twitter and stopped replying to letters and the emails to his parliamentary address, presumably because he's sick of being questioned about his voting and his backing of Johnson.

But obviously I'm just a DM reading Tory...

Anyone who hands MSM their arses on a plate is a legend.

Need more of him

I agree the economy is in the shitter. Lynch isn't causing that though. We've been printing money - I mean actually fucking printing it, billions of it - for a decade and a half while interest rates have suppressed wage growth. That's why we've got inflation and that's also why everything costs so much - money is worth less and people on the bottom four deciles are earning less of it comparatively speaking. Now we are in a wages crisis - not a cost of living crisis; what things cost doesn't matter a damn if you yourself have plenty of money - and anyone who demands that workers have more money when the asset owning class have been busily hoarding everything they can these past 14 years is to my mind part of the solution, not part of the problem.

I don't think anyone of sound mind would consider Brexit to be a good idea or a success.

The conservatives have lost both by elections.
Might be an interesting news day.

It will be interesting today but as usual Boris will mumble something about how marvellous the tories are & how they are turning this country around. He will totally ignore the fact that they have lost 2 seats one of which has never been anything but Tory.

I thought the speeches from both new MP's were good, I hope the Libs & Labour can use tactical voting again in a general election to get the Tories out.

No wonder Johnson is in Rwanda. He wasn't unavailable enough in a fridge.

@Georgeskitchen

A Putin sympathiser? I think you're thinking of Eddie Dempsey, a different man. Or Alex Gordon. Again, a different man.

Yes, he's great. I was initially unsure of the strike, mostly due to ignorance. But after hearing him explain the reasons clearly, I am now very supportive. He's clear and unwavering, without alienating 'outsiders'. He unites rather than divides

That'll be Militant Lynch according to the clowns intelligentsia employed by the Daily Mail. YANBU

Thank you voters of Wakefield and Tiverton. Who are they going to wheel out to claim that these are typical by election results and a victory for the Tory party? We need to start the day with a laugh. Oh, there goes Oliver Dowden, resigned as Chairman but not as MP.👋

That's a massive swing in Devon isn't it ? Labour will be relieved to get Wakefield back. The Con's only need to lose another 38 seats to lose their majority, how many red wall seats are there ?

Oliver Downden's resignation, I wonder who we will see him align himself with instead of Boris ?

Johnson uses foreign trips every time there is a tough domestic situation - the bills for his jaunts is enormous. (But we have no money to pay public service workers a decent wage...........)

Never forget the majority of Tory MP's support Johnson as he is 'the best they have' 😂😂