Sense over Socialism

WHATEVER happened to the 2017 ‘summer of discontent’, planned by union militants to culminate in a ‘Red October’ that was meant to see Jeremy Corbyn installed in Downing Street last autumn?

Backed by John McDonnell, the idea was that a wave of strikes and mass protests would usher in a Socialist utopia under the Great Bearded Leader.

Things didn’t turn out quite as planned, did they? Indeed, official figures show the number of workers on strike last year was at its lowest since records began in 1893, when Queen Victoria was on the throne.

True, this dramatic reduction in industrial strife can be put down in part to the new law requiring a ballot turnout of at least 50 per cent to make a strike legal.

But isn’t it much more a tribute to the good sense of British workers, who put providing for their families above Marxist ideology – and see nothing to be gained from wrecking the economy?