Willie Walsh: an “over-reaction”?
Strange, isn’t it, how BA boss Willie Walsh thinks that restrictions on flying through dangerous ash-clouds are an “over-reaction“, but outlawing a strike that’s been democratically endorsed in a ballot by the vast majority of employees is OK because 11 (that’s right: 11 out of 11,000) spoiled ballot papers were not announced by the union. And that court ruling is not an “over-reaction.”
We have to now consider: is it possible to have a legal strike in Britain?
Workers Liberty has this to say.
A commenter on The Times website says this:
william cleo wrote:
Numerically overwhelming and morally legitimate strike ballots are now constantly being overriden by the Courts on technical grounds.
If the same stringent rules were applied to General Election ballots as appear to be applied to election strike ballots we should have no government at all.
Will said,
May 17, 2010 at 11:24 pm
But but but the thick posho cunT Henry Porter thinks that the Corp[ral Clogg and Captain Cameroon coalition will be good for FREEDOM and LIBERTY (he should fuck off to Yankland and never come back).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2010/may/10/conservative-liberal-democrat-coalition-civil-liberties
So in UK there is now no right to withdraw your labour. In other werDs we are all now slaves. Glad to have that cleared up.
Will said,
May 17, 2010 at 11:26 pm
wooD make Hitler and burlesconi proud
http://northernheckler.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/con-dems-55-rule-would-do-hitler-proud/
http://www.21stcenturyfix.org/2010/05/cameron-apes-berlusconis-italy-by.html
see also
http://modies.blogspot.com/2010/05/liberal-democrats-partick-thistle-of.html
Will said,
May 17, 2010 at 11:34 pm
The “national interest”
Britain’s New Cabinet
Millionaires : 23
Non-Millionaires: 7
White: 29
Black: 0
Asian :1
Men: 26
Women: 4
The new politics.
The “new Politics” continued:
WHO’S WHO: KEY CABINET POSTS
PM: David Cameron — TOFF PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY
Deputy PM: Nick Clegg — TOFF PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY
Foreign Sec: William Hague — drinks 12 pints of ale a day while
delivering coal.
Chancellor: George Osborne — TOFF PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY
Business/banking: Vince Cable — TOFF PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY
Defence: Liam Fox — TOFF PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY
Health: Andrew Lansley — WHO? NEVER HEARD OF AND not looking up on wiki
Energy/Climate: Chris Huhne — probably a TOFF PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY
Justice Sec: Ken Clarke — TOFF PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY/grammer school traitor
Home Sec: Theresa May — TOFF PUBLIC SCHOOLBOYgiRL
Education: Michael Gove — TOFF PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY
Chief Sec to Treasury: David Laws — WHO? NEVER HEARD OF etc
Scottish Sec: Danny Alexander — WHO? ETC
Communities Sec: Eric Pickles — HA HA HA HA HA
Culture/Olympics: Jeremy Hunt — name misspelled
Work and Pensions: Iain Duncan Smith — HA HA HA HA TOFF PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY
Will said,
May 17, 2010 at 11:36 pm
see wot a thick wibberwul cunT sez here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8681624.stm
“On the other hand, if your threshold for a special case is only 50%, in theory it would be possible for the Tories to be ambushed by other parties, including the Liberal Democrats, ganging up against them…
“Although nobody in the partnership has any intention of doing any such thing, it was a small matter for us to say ‘No, we accept your concerns and if we raise that threshold to 55%.’
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha — “ganging up against them”. Aye — we divvint want nasty shit like that in politics do we? The thick fuckking scum shud be dropped into vat of acid.
Will said,
May 17, 2010 at 11:44 pm
We are all having to make cutbacks — wotnot and that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8681075.stm
we are ‘all in this together’ after all. everyone must share the burden. Big society and wotnot chaps. The “New Politics” demands nothing else.
tally ho chaps. Corporal Clogg needs to lap up my knob cheese and anal leakage using his mouth apparatus muscle. For sure it is looked forward to especially as we are ‘all in this together’.
I love my job.
Yours sincerely, D Cameroon, Your pM for life (now that my enabling act has been granted permission by Corporal Clogg anyway).
Dr S Pin said,
May 18, 2010 at 3:42 pm
The tale of two boxers…
Two boxers get into a ring, after 2 rounds one returns to his corner with a cut eye, bleeding nose, and a split lip. He says to his trainer, “I can’t go on, what’s going wrong?” The trainer says, “he’s throwing punches and you are letting him hit you because you are not keeping your guard up!”
The moral of this short story is that after 1 round he should have learnt that he was going to be hit and he should not give the gift the opponent an opportunity to hit him.
The legislation clearly states that the full ballot result should be communicated to the unions members, if a BA legal representative can spot the flaw the unions legal advisor’s should have pre-empted it as well.
Len McCluskey, where ever he is now, should make sure, as the lead negotiator within this dispute, that there are no more mistakes as members may get worried that a knock out may come in round 3…
Ding Ding, seconds out…
Isle of Skyte said,
May 19, 2010 at 5:21 pm
The grand old duke of Len
He had ten thousand bassa men
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And waived goodbye to them then