And they're off !

You haven't even put that box of Christmas decorations back in the loft and the first industrial action of the year is about to be rubber-stamped. Red Len McCluskey, the man who brought out the BA trolley dollies in a series of strikes last year is at it again. This worn out Communist who idolises revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Geuvara and is soon to be installed as the general Secretary of Unite, the biggest trade union in the country, has now set his sights on bringing the country's fuel distribution network to a grinding halt. 

The justification? Well quite simply, in a grotesque throwback to the 1970's, Red Len wants to bring back a practice known as national collective bargaining whereby suppliers of anything not just fuel, are forced to accept a 'one price fits all' practice denying any opportunity for suppliers to individually negotiate competitive pricing policies. To make it all happen McCluskey is ready to bring out militant fuel tanker drivers causing untold misery to say nothing of putting some vulnerable sections of society at serious risk.

The end game, and there's always an end game - if Red Len achieves his goal of national collective bargaining - it puts him in a very strong position to call nationwide strikes at the drop of a hat along with all the other three figure salaried comrades in the trade union movement who are no doubt currently lining up their own excuses to call their members out and help bring this government to its knees. Vindictive doesn't even come close to describing the activities of some sections of the Trade Union movement when there's a sniff of revolution in the air. Remember the Winter of Discontent in 78/79 and the striking gravediggers in Liverpool? 

Ideally what these champagne communists desperately want is to co-ordinate and mobilise a General Strike and/or mass rally in London some time in March. We can all pretty much guess the outcome of this even before every union leader and Labour politician has hidden behind the same old 'it was the anarchists hijacking our lawful protest' mantra. The inevitable violence and mayhem will make the 1990 Poll Tax riot and the recent student actions look like a picnic in the park and they all know it.

It's only a matter of time before for the next union baron pops up spouting 1970's bollocks in order to justify their £100K + lifestyle. Which one will appear next in the line up of usual suspects ? Watch this space.