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Can the LibDems sink any lower?

StevieJ
StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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The answer appears to be yes icon9.gif maybe back to Victorian times? unfair comparison really, things were improving back then.

Threats meted out to the weakest poodle like Union movement in a hundred years.
Mr Cable warned that if unions persist in co-ordinated strike action, "the pressure on us to act [by changing the law] will ratchet up."
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Cable-Heckled-On-Strike-Law-skynews-789352377.html?x=0
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
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  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    That heart which beats on the left appears to have shifted somewhat...
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    But:

    1. The right to strike is guaranteed by european law and
    2. There is no coordinated strike action - in fact, IIRC, Thatcher made coordinated strike action illegal.
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  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Can the LibDems sink any lower?
    not on this forum they can't!!! they can do no wrong.

    cue the endless posts about the previous lot that were in government.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    tomterm8 wrote: »
    But:
    ...2. There is no coordinated strike action - in fact, IIRC, Thatcher made coordinated strike action illegal.

    Her Government did I think. However, according to the article:
    Union leaders have warned 750,000 teachers, lecturers, civil servants and other public sector workers could take co-ordinated strike action on June 30 in the biggest outbreak of industrial unrest for years.


    If it's meant to be illegal to take coordinated strike action and there is a loophole in the law then it's probably reasonable to change the law.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    tomterm8 wrote: »
    But:

    1. The right to strike is guaranteed by european law and
    2. There is no coordinated strike action - in fact, IIRC, Thatcher made coordinated strike action illegal.

    Obviously people should have the right to strike.... but that doesnt mean they have the 'right' to being employed on their return.
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    abaxas wrote: »
    Obviously people should have the right to strike.... but that doesnt mean they have the 'right' to being employed on their return.

    Do you not see any contradiction in what you have typed?
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    I wish people would stop being beastly to the Lib Dems. Its their last parliament existing as an actual party. Have some respect.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    The answer appears to be yes icon9.gif maybe back to Victorian times? unfair comparison really, things were improving back then.

    Threats meted out to the weakest poodle like Union movement in a hundred years.

    http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Cable-Heckled-On-Strike-Law-skynews-789352377.html?x=0

    Come to think of it, a hundred years nearly spans the period back to the time when they last had any power :eek:
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    lemonjelly wrote: »
    Do you not see any contradiction in what you have typed?

    Intended I think.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Intended I think.

    I'm less certain...
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
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