The Shadow Health Secretary has been asked by Tominey to prove his party isn’t “a lot of soundbite and no substance”.
These changes would be resisted by the trade unions – understandably as it would render them pretty irrelevant. But their members would be empowered.
The unions were small-c conservatives. They paraded under heraldic banners, had no truck with such new-fangled ideas as women’s rights, and wanted to keep every coal mine in the country open.
MPs have spied a winning row over the RMT’s Christmas strike, but the broader issue of public sector unrest is not going away.
Foreign labour is an alternative to ministers facing up to how successive governments have gummed up domestic training and recruitment of medical staff.
There is a limit to what can fairly and sensibly be achieved by raising other taxes and cutting public spending – especially when it comes to pay.
Labour has allocated £1 million to give its Leader four extra staff for the next four years. It’s unclear what these staff will do.
The case for restraint isn’t going to be popular, but we’ll all pay if the Government bows to the ‘summer of discontent’.
Research from the TaxPayers’ Alliance shows that 23,545 union officials in the public sector cost taxpayers nearly £100 million in facility time last year.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century Britain began to cede market share in industries such as coal mining, textiles, iron, steel, and shipbuilding.
Businesses and employees are only responding to monetary conditions set by the Bank of England, where the real responsibility lies.
“It would not be responsible opposition if I suggested yes to every strike,” the Shadow Foreign Secretary adds.
At PMQs, he demanded the Government meet with the RMT. But what would the current Shadow Cabinet do in such a meeting?
Departmental budgets are being eroded as both construction costs and public sector pay demands start to spiral.