No doubt I will be condemned for this but Mister Ed is a scab. It’s not an easy word to use bearing in mind the meaning but on this occasion it’s spot-on. Miliband is a disgrace to the labour movement and to the trade union movement. He was only too grateful to get the support of the unions for his campaign for leader and even used the word “comrades” when addressing an audience (it probably choked him then much as it probably does now).
Just to reiterate the point, Ed Miliband is a scab. What he should be telling MPs in no uncertain terms that they should not only NOT cross picket lines, but to visit picket lines and speak at union meetings/rallies. That’s what a Labour MP should be doing, not, in the words of some Labour Party spokesperson, ”coming to work as normal”.
Miliband coulda/shoulda used PMQs to support these strikes but he kept shtum. Cameron baited Mister Ed with “in the pockets of the union” while he shook his terrified head… I mean, he doesn’t want to give the establishment the wrong idea.
In the words of that doyen of consumer capitalism, Alan Sugar, “You’re fired”…. Fired because Mister Ed continues the long line of despicable, disreputable, and destable leaders grovelling at the altar of the establishment while the working class get further shafted with a couple of crumbs thrown in their way. But when it comes to taking on the establishment, when it comes to workers fighting back the Labour Party leadership has a tendency to sell-out. And Mister Ed is no different.
I mean, what are workers meant to do? One of the options, when all avenues have been pursued, is to withdraw your labour. And that’s the power workers have and it’s the duty of the Labour Party leadership to stand firm not criticise and condemn. I am damn angry that workers’ are paying for an economic crisis that wasn’t caused by them and Mister Ed knows it.
This is a critical time for the fight back against the austerity cuts and the attacks on workers’ pay and conditions and it’s crystal clear that Mister Ed is a spineless crawling squirming scab… too scared to stand up to the establishment. But what I always thought right from the beginnings of Mister Ed’s campaign for leadership is that he was no different to the amnesia suffering neoliberal squalid New Labour toadies.
International solidarity with the workers tomorrow!
Great idea from Partisan
