JUSTIN DUNN’S ROOM 101 Unions don’t give an Uncle Buck about us!
WHAT’S ANNOYING HIM THIS WEEK?
THE late, great, comic actor John Candy might well be raising a wry smile up in the heavens, where he surely lives on.
His biggest and best movie, the wonderful Planes, Trains and Automobiles, about a hilariously hazardous trip home across the United States, is about to become reality here in Blighty. Just without any of the laughs. We know the trains have come to a halt because the BBC and Sky News cannot excitedly report on the strikes enough.
They’re so desperate for anything that could bring down the government, they are openly 24/7 cheerleaders for the hard-left RMT union.
Even though the squint-eyed 70s dinosaurs are demanding unrealistic, eyewatering pay rises, the Beeb in particular accepts their request without a flinch. But they would, wouldn’t they? Because the BBC is funded by the real mugs in this country, namely you and me – the taxpayers. not the shareholders, who had to stump up the money?
Not that the unions give a toss where the money comes from, as long as it comes. And plenty of it, too. Now we read that teachers and binmen – again, paid for by us – are lining up to walk out on strike, too. What a coincidence, eh? Anyone would think the unions are still smarting about voters convincingly rejecting Corbyn’s communism in the 2019 general election. Funny that. And don’t think for a second it will end there. Other council workers – yes, we also pay for them – will almost certainly be next.
Stagnant
And no matter how many billions we chuck at the NHS, with few tangible results, it is never enough.
Meanwhile, back in the real world of the private sector, where wealth is created and shared, rather than Hoovered up and spent with wild abandon like in the public sector, wages remain stagnant.
And the grown-ups at the Bank of England, no less, are telling us we We literally DO pay their wages shouldn’t ask for “unreasonable” pay through the licence fee. rises as more pay would, erm, hurt
Wages that are in most cases the economy. considerably higher than those of The logic seems to be that the the poor bastards – us – who have, by more money you and I earn, it’ll make rule of law, to sustain them. inflation rocket, meaning all of our
The train operating firms are bills will rise accordingly. supposedly different, as they’re So the answer seems to be that we owned by shareholders. should pay anyone in a public sector
But they were bailed out with union loads more money that they £16billion of our money during the clearly don’t deserve, but keep the pandemic. rest of us nervously treading water.
Aren’t shareholders meant to prop I somehow doubt that RMT boss up the companies they invest in, Mick Lynch (Mob)’s favourite John rather than just take a chunky Candy film is Planes, Trains and dividend when times are hard? Automobiles.
And how come it was the taxpayers, Uncle Buck. EMAIL ME: justin@sundaysport.co.uk FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: @justindunn