Toryland 2023: The Return Of Jacob Marley & Lech Wałęsa
A ‘Minimum Service’ guarantee?
″‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’”
— Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol’
“We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.”
— Lech Wałęsa
Well, the latest bright idea to deal with the crises in the striking and unreconciled England of early 2023 is to create new laws to stop the workers in six essential services from being able to strike.
This legislation has been precipitated, according to the Tory government, by the strike of ambulance staff (in particular) but will apply to nurses, teachers — who are now in the process of balloting — post workers, railway workers, and nuclear.
