The Union wish list

mark c

typically nuts and ill thought out,

1 limits the chances of us (home or business) ever seeing energy costs come down
2 Lets hope they stay with hourly rates rather than the touchy feely brigades demand for lifetime earning opportunity
3 Presumably business will follow the non-doms to friendlier locales
4 Wasnt TUPE enough ?
5 How do they ever expect anyone to run a team based business or work within traditional office hours ?
6 Enough said if even the Brown regime see sense
7 This is code for wholesale slaughter of small to medium business (particularly manufacturing activity) in the UK, God knows margins are thin enough and UK producivity is on its knees already

no doubt the deal is done already

Travis Bickle

They just don't get it do they?

Nick Kaplan

I have never understood why Unions believe that limiting the profits companies make is somehow in their own interests. All empirical evidence and economic theory shows that the higher a company’s profits the better off its workers are.

Perry, still worried that he may not have requisite Progressive Parenting Propensity

“Ah, my Deeres”, (chuckle) says the one with the crooked finger, and the pointy hat, “You’ve come to see me again, - and it’s PAYBACK TIME”.

All these years ov sittin on their hands, watching the Luvvies of Noo-Lying-Bores play Ping-Pong with treasured Union precepts. And behold, the Luvvies, deliver themselves like dead meat unto the Unions, yeah, even unto their portals.

As the previous Beloved Leader kno full well, revenge is indeed sweet when taken cold, and at leisure.

dexey

"if Labour starts giving ground on these demands it will be a disaster for the British economy."

Maybe, but the economy isn't looking very healthy without these concessions, is it?

Mike

1. Get gun
2. Load gun
3. Shoot foot
repeat
1970's Deja vu

A J Scott

This should put the final nail in he coffin of Labour, whether New or Old or simply past its sell-by date.
Fascinating that these dinosaurs (like their predecessors in the Jurassic) cannot see this.

Jonathan M. Scott

5. A Conservative Government.

For that's what the unions will get...

http://thewiltedrose.wordpress.com/

THX1138

What did Ashcroft want for bailing out the Tories? Apart from the knighthood & corner office at central office & Dave to keep stum about his tax status. Wasn't he supposed to back in the UK by now paying his taxes & on the electoral role?

DiscoveredJoys

I have not won the lottery this week, so I will not be buying what's left of the Labour Party. It would have been a bargain for them - I only wanted them to go away.

Max

Brings back the headline from the seventies - "will the last businessman to leave the country please turn out the light." Except this time the light will probably already be out due to power cuts....

Max
http://theerrorlog.blogspot.com

TGF UKIP

The Cameron Tories were very quiet about the Warwick Compact so it will be most interesting to hear what, if anything, they have to say about this forthcoming piece of union extortion.

THX1138

TGF- Sorry if I'm being dumb but what is the Warwick Compact?

TGF UKIP

THX, the Warwick Agreement was cooked up in a meeting at Warwick University between the unions and Labour (Kinnock was lurking about somewhere if I recall.) At the time the unions were really pissed off with Blair and the RMT had withdrawn altogether. As Labour was skint as usual and as there were internal union noises over withdrawing financial support for New Labour this was a meeting to avoid disaster and enable the unions to present their shopping list. Many of the burdens on small business from the ensuing social legislation can be traced back to Warwick. I will admit here I am being uncharacteristically unfair in my comment to the Cameron Tories as the Agreement preceded Cameron by 18 months. Nonetheless, amazing how comparatively little fuss the Tories have kicked up over this in the last four years. Imagine if the boot had been on the other foot and the Tories had got together with the British Chambers of Commerce (New Labour bought the CBI with gongs and quangoships a decade ago) and the BCC had presented a duly enacted wish list. Labour would have had the time of their lives with it. Still New Tories so .....

THX1138

TGF- Yeah I remember all closed doors as I recall. They are all bloody well up to it the Labour with the Unions & the Tories with Ashcroft & the Hedge Fund Ozzie Hintze. I don't like Ashcroft what does he want? What strings does he pull in the shadows? At least with Unions you know what they are up to

We should have a max loan/donation whatever of 5K PA from Union's, Companies & Individuals enough to show support but not enough to buy any favours.

The parties would have to reach out to us for funding & listen to us & not rely on big individual donors like Unions or rich businessmen

Obama had received over 250,000 individual donations this year It can be done but both the parties have no motivation all the time they have their sugar daddies.

TGF UKIP

Loads of sense, as usual, in what you say THX but the problem seems to be that while Americans "do" politics Brits don't. All the same, though, with your policy the parties would really have to reach out and engage people all over the country instead of just talking to the London hacks and chattering classes about all their green, ultra liberal preoccupations. Who knows we might even see a Conservative Party once again talking to and being willing to represent the views of working and middle class provincial Britain.