Greedy unions have humiliated Starmer – he looks pitifully, pathetically weak --[Reported by Umva mag]

NOTHING could have been a brighter, better start for Keir Starmer’s Labour Government than to successfully end the pandemic of industrial action that blighted the final years of Tory rule. You heard it all the time: “Nothing is really working.” And it was sadly true. GettyKeir Starmer is yet to successfully end the pandemic of industrial action[/caption] PAAslef clearly doesn’t give a toss about the travelling public[/caption] The same nurses we applauded during Covid despaired at their pay and working conditions. Junior doctors were dreaming of emigrating to Australia. Train strikes lasted for years. Disgruntled public sector workers were everywhere. This was like the Winter of Discontent in Narnia. It felt like the strikes would never end. And we simply could not continue on with walkouts paralysing our nation. But is Labour making the chaos even worse? Even as they were snatching the winter fuel allowance away from ten million pensioners, Labour was still chucking inflation– busting pay deals at train drivers and junior doctors. The argument is that it saves money in the long run because strikes damage the economy. And if giving a UK-trained junior doctor a better wage stops him or her from relocating their made-in-Britain skills to Canada or Australia, then that is true. But there has to be goodwill in return. There has to be a promise that the industrial action is over. Yet how did Aslef’s militant leadership thank Labour for their more than 14 per cent pay offer? By immediately calling for more strikes. “Extremely disappointed,” Keir Starmer’s spokesperson sighed. Not good enough. Starmer should be boiling with rage. His robust response to the far-right riots made him look reassuringly strong. Now he is being humiliated by greedy unions and looks pitifully, pathetically weak. Because walkouts work. Bullying pays. And we all have to tighten our belts, apart from the hatchet-faced union hardmen. Not all strikes are the same. Polls reveal that there is far more public sympathy for nurses than train drivers, and more support for junior doctors than civil servants. But Aslef clearly doesn’t give a toss about the travelling public. And their lavish pay settlement only encourages more public sector unions to lick their lips as they negotiate their ransom demands with Soft Touch Starmer and his team. The aspiration now is of “wage restoration”, making up wages lost to global calamities such as the financial crisis of 2008, Covid and the war in Ukraine. Hardcore comrades As if the public sector unions truly believe they — quite literally — do not live in the same world as the rest of us. And far from seeking to end industrial action, Labour is, unbelievably, going to make it far easier to go on strike. The Trade Union Act of 2016 mandates that 50 per cent of a trade union’s membership must vote for strike action before a walkout, and 40 per cent of “important public services” such as the NHS. This is not anti-union legislation. It is pro-democracy. But in their overhaul of trade union laws, this Labour Government has pledged to repeal the act this autumn, making it far easier for a few hardcore comrades to command “Everybody out!”, as if The Carpenters are still top of the pops. For all the Union Jacks he poses with, is Keir Starmer really a patriotic, pro-business, moderate Prime Minister for all the British people? Not while he bends the knee to the TUC. With inflation-busting pay rises and the repeal of strike legislation, this is a new golden age for the trade unions in the UK. And bugger the rest of us. Who pays? You will. So don’t be self-employed in Labour’s Britain. Don’t be a pensioner. Don’t own your own home. Don’t dream of leaving your children anything. Don’t drive a white van. Don’t run a small business. Don’t run a big business. Don’t employ anyone — you will only regret it. And most of all, do not expect the trains to run on time. Hard to take a smoothie as best Bond HALLE BERRY says Pierce Brosnan “restored my faith in men” when they filmed Die Another Day together in 2002. “He will always be my Bond, always,” she says. AlamyHalle Berry says Pierce Brosnan ‘restored my faith in men’ when they filmed Die Another Day together in 2002[/caption] AP:Associated PressHalle Berry with Pierce Brosnan[/caption] That’s lovely. But it was smooth, sensitive, nice Pierce Brosnan that fatally destroyed my faith in 007. No big-screen James Bond was ever so far away from the hardnut hero in Ian Fleming’s books. Apart from Roger Moore, of course. Blake a win with us THE two big hit films of the summer are Alien: Romulus, the latest instalment in the ooh-my-chest-feels-a-bit-funny sci-fi franchise, and It Ends With Us, a romantic drama about domestic abuse starring Blake Lively, based on Colleen Hoover’s bestseller. Both Alien: Romulus

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Greedy unions have humiliated Starmer – he looks pitifully, pathetically weak --[Reported by Umva mag]

NOTHING could have been a brighter, better start for Keir Starmer’s Labour Government than to successfully end the pandemic of industrial action that blighted the final years of Tory rule.

You heard it all the time: “Nothing is really working.” And it was sadly true.

a man wearing glasses and a suit stands in front of a british flag

Keir Starmer is yet to successfully end the pandemic of industrial action[/caption]

a group of men holding up signs that say aslef official picket

Aslef clearly doesn’t give a toss about the travelling public[/caption]

The same nurses we applauded during Covid despaired at their pay and working conditions.

Junior doctors were dreaming of emigrating to Australia.

Train strikes lasted for years.

Disgruntled public sector workers were everywhere.

This was like the Winter of Discontent in Narnia. It felt like the strikes would never end.

And we simply could not continue on with walkouts paralysing our nation.

But is Labour making the chaos even worse?

Even as they were snatching the winter fuel allowance away from ten million pensioners, Labour was still chucking inflation– busting pay deals at train drivers and junior doctors.

The argument is that it saves money in the long run because strikes damage the economy.

And if giving a UK-trained junior doctor a better wage stops him or her from relocating their made-in-Britain skills to Canada or Australia, then that is true.

But there has to be goodwill in return.

There has to be a promise that the industrial action is over.

Yet how did Aslef’s militant leadership thank Labour for their more than 14 per cent pay offer?

By immediately calling for more strikes.

“Extremely disappointed,” Keir Starmer’s spokesperson sighed. Not good enough.

Starmer should be boiling with rage.

His robust response to the far-right riots made him look reassuringly strong.

Now he is being humiliated by greedy unions and looks pitifully, pathetically weak.

Because walkouts work. Bullying pays. And we all have to tighten our belts, apart from the hatchet-faced union hardmen.

Not all strikes are the same.

Polls reveal that there is far more public sympathy for nurses than train drivers, and more support for junior doctors than civil servants.

But Aslef clearly doesn’t give a toss about the travelling public.

And their lavish pay settlement only encourages more public sector unions to lick their lips as they negotiate their ransom demands with Soft Touch Starmer and his team.

The aspiration now is of “wage restoration”, making up wages lost to global calamities such as the financial crisis of 2008, Covid and the war in Ukraine.

Hardcore comrades

As if the public sector unions truly believe they — quite literally — do not live in the same world as the rest of us.

And far from seeking to end industrial action, Labour is, unbelievably, going to make it far easier to go on strike.

The Trade Union Act of 2016 mandates that 50 per cent of a trade union’s membership must vote for strike action before a walkout, and 40 per cent of “important public services” such as the NHS.

This is not anti-union legislation. It is pro-democracy.

But in their overhaul of trade union laws, this Labour Government has pledged to repeal the act this autumn, making it far easier for a few hardcore comrades to command “Everybody out!”, as if The Carpenters are still top of the pops.

For all the Union Jacks he poses with, is Keir Starmer really a patriotic, pro-business, moderate Prime Minister for all the British people?

Not while he bends the knee to the TUC.

With inflation-busting pay rises and the repeal of strike legislation, this is a new golden age for the trade unions in the UK. And bugger the rest of us.

Who pays? You will.

So don’t be self-employed in Labour’s Britain.

Don’t be a pensioner.

Don’t own your own home.

Don’t dream of leaving your children anything.

Don’t drive a white van. Don’t run a small business.

Don’t run a big business. Don’t employ anyone — you will only regret it.

And most of all, do not expect the trains to run on time.

Hard to take a smoothie as best Bond

HALLE BERRY says Pierce Brosnan “restored my faith in men” when they filmed Die Another Day together in 2002.

“He will always be my Bond, always,” she says.

Halle Berry says Pierce Brosnan ‘restored my faith in men’ when they filmed Die Another Day together in 2002[/caption]

a man and a woman standing in front of a sign that says 007

Halle Berry with Pierce Brosnan[/caption]

That’s lovely. But it was smooth, sensitive, nice Pierce Brosnan that fatally destroyed my faith in 007.

No big-screen James Bond was ever so far away from the hardnut hero in Ian Fleming’s books.

Apart from Roger Moore, of course.

Blake a win with us

THE two big hit films of the summer are Alien: Romulus, the latest instalment in the ooh-my-chest-feels-a-bit-funny sci-fi franchise, and It Ends With Us, a romantic drama about domestic abuse starring Blake Lively, based on Colleen Hoover’s bestseller.

Both Alien: Romulus and It Ends With Us have earned more than £100million at the global box office.

a man and a woman are looking into each other 's eyes

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in It Ends with Us[/caption]

That makes the level of abuse directed at Blake even more remarkable.

She stands accused of trivialising the subject matter of It Ends With Us by using interviews to promote her commercial interests, rather than open up the debate about domestic abuse.

The film has a glossy, surface sheen.

But for all the lingering kisses in beautiful apartments and melting looks in romantic restaurants, It Ends With Us is ultimately about violence against women.

Colleen Hoover reportedly based her book on her own parents’ abusive relationship.

But Lively is an entrepreneur as well as an actress.

At a post-premiere party in New York, her alcohol brands, Betty Booze and Betty Buzz, were served – including a cocktail called Ryle You Wait, named after her character’s abuser.

Self-promotion

A bit like naming a cocktail after Osama bin Laden.

And during an interview on Extra TV in the US, she digressed to plug her haircare range Blake Brown – “iconic hair, every day”.

Some see this self-promotion on the back of a film about domestic abuse as wildly inappropriate.

So it is worth stating: Blake Lively is really good in It Ends With Us.

At the end of the film, the speech she makes to her violent husband when she has their new-born baby daughter in her arms is incredibly moving.

It did not make me feel like buying any of Blake’s hair products.

But I was glad we gave the aliens a miss.

Queen tamed Trump

A NEW book about Queen Elizabeth II claims she found President Donald Trump “very rude”.

Really? Her Majesty always looked quite cheerful in Trump’s company to me.

A new book about Queen Elizabeth II claims she found President Donald Trump ‘very rude’[/caption]

By the time the Queen first met Trump in 2018, she had encountered many of history’s hard men, dictators, and despots, including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and Putin.

They always looked on their best behaviour in the presence of the most famous woman in the world.

And the Queen never looked intimidated.

Trump vehemently denies the Queen disliked him. “Totally false”, he thunders.

“I heard I was her favourite President. She was a fantastic woman.”

I believe him.

The Queen met more tyrants than anyone in history.

She always looked gloriously at ease. I reckon she could handle Trump’s table manners.

ALAIN DELON, the French sex god who has died at 88, has been denied his last wish to be buried with his beloved dog Loubo, a ten-year-old Belgian malinois.

Any dog lover can understand Alain’s torment at knowing he would not be around to care for his Loubo.

Alain Delon, the French sex god has died at 88

The problem is that Loubo is still very much alive.

Nobody would put down a healthy French sex god.

So why should anyone put down a healthy dog?

NOW Jermaine Jenas is out of the running to succeed Gary Lineker as Match Of The Day host, the bookies have selected new favourites.

The predictable names appear – Gaby Logan and Micah Richards (both 7/1) plus Alex Scott (8/1).

a man with a microphone that says bt on it — Martin Keown would make a great MOTD host as he is articulate, intelligent and eloquent

I nominate Martin Keown for the job.

Keown already works as a pundit.

There is no ex-footballer anywhere near as articulate, intelligent and eloquent.

Whatever you think of Lineker’s politics or his crisps, he has been a brilliant front man for Match Of The Day.

Keown would be just as good.

The former Arsenal hardman was even born in the same week England won the World Cup in July 1966.

That has to be an omen.

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