Mick Lynch

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Anyone else here loving his work?

Maggie - is that you arisen from the depths of hell?

What an original remark.

And now it's the government doing the same...

TullyApplebottom I agree. I'm afraid anyone who lived through the 70s will be watching national strike action with some trepidation - it set us back decades as a country. If only it had been just a winter of discontent! Power cuts, rubbish piling up in the streets....

I lived through the 70’s. We had 6 weeks off school due to strikes. It was great!’n

And as someone who lived through the 70’s l really hope we get a repeat if it kicks those cunts at no 10 out.

l remember the ‘Britain isn’t working’ adverts. We could run them again and apply them to the Tories. That would be so fantastic!😂

Whereas the waaaah 70s winter of discontent because a union does something you don't care for is new and fresh analysis?

He is all you will ever need as a union leader. Knows his onions and talks calmly and concisely.

The Kay Burley interview was an embarrassment he basically handed her her own arse on a plate.

She was shocking so combative, goading and so not up to the job. Mick Lynch kept calm throughout, tho God knows how. Her line of questioning was juvenile and inane not what you expect from an apparently professional journalist.

Good luck to the RMT the outcome of this industrial action may set the precedent for other public sector pay increases.

As I’ve said before, I am no fan of the current government, but it is hyperbole to say we are in as bad a position as we were in the 70s. Give the likes of lynch what he wants, and we’ll get there eventually tho

What a pathetic and ridiculous slur.

Absolutely this! Like it's not possible to be educated and left wing.

Why would he be working for anyone other than his members? Isn’t that his job?

I am old, old enough to remember when people like him had too much power and were bringing the country to its knees

Oh yes, and this is so original 🙄

I like how calm and direct he is

it’s an observation based on experience. I have heard from the likes of lynch more times than I can count, and they are always the same. There is nothing new here, other than a generation listening who haven’t heard it all before

Sure, but it lessens his value as a guide to what ought to happen.

That advert was "Labour isn't working". It was Thatcher's pitch to say she would soon have everyone off the dole and back to work.
Within a couple of years she'd managed to double unemployment, in a pattern to be repeated by Tory governments for years to come (see also "tax cuts", "low taxes" and "high wage high skills economy").

I’ve only heard him on Today and he sounded like an absolutely typical 70s/80s trade union specimen. No one other than he and his members matters.
but I am old, old enough to remember when people like him had too much power and were bringing the country to its knees

Load of shite, I’m old enough too. It’s what needs to happen to reset our country into a humane and compassionate society with a strong sense of social justice and .. yes.. dignity. Because the lot in no 10 are a dignified as a pile of shite

It's not a remotely original one though, so you were in a pot kettle black situation there. By all means say that if you think it, but given what a tired trope it is at that point you might do better not to complain about perceived unoriginality in others.

Yeah Labour isn’t working. But how cool would it be to run the same advert with The Tories aren’t working?!

He’s not a spiritual leader. He’s a trade unionist 😳

The ' Britain isn't working ' poster wouldn't work at the moment as there are more vacancies than there are people around to fill them. People would just be told to take any job.
It's different times now.
That poster was a very clever conservative view of Britain at that time. Then came the crash and unemployment was rife under the conservatives and Mrs Thatcher only a few years later on anyway. Ironically enough!

surely what matters is whether it’s true.

He’s playing a blinder. Not perhaps that difficult given how silly so many of his interviewers are. ‘Are you a Marxist?’; ‘are you the most evil man in Britain?’ And so transparent in their juvenile efforts to disparage him.

He's very good at highlighting how bad and corrupt the government are. Isn't that the opposition's job? If they were doing that better it wouldn't be so noticeable.

The MSM in this country is a complete joke as well and he's played our leading broadcasters for fools.

Who people here are saying ought to be listened to without, it seems, recognising the limitations of his role and perspective.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a presenter as flustered as Kay Burley in that interview. It was fantastic.