When the Underground stops, the city’s commuters become collateral damage in a negotiation they were never invited to. We have solved this problem before. It required political courage, and leaders willing to confront powerful interests. London needs a Thatcher, not another Chamberlain.
Where Labour makes excuses, the Conservatives are offering solutions. We understand that the NHS cannot function if it becomes a hostage to militant unions.
When your own ideological allies are pleading with you to stop, it should be a moment for reflection.
We have always protected and championed a health service that is free at the point of use. But if we do not draw the line, then it will fall.
Our deputy editor joins TalkTV’s Ian Collins to discuss crime, the resident doctors’ strike, and the death of Hulk Hogan.
Both Labour and the Conservatives seem, for some reason, to have decided to employ the tactics of the 1970s, a decade defined by the continual retreat of government in the face of union power.
He has has a problem that Ethelred never faced: Britain is borrowing £150 billion a year simply to cover its existing spending commitments. There. Is. No. Money.
A future Conservative government will not merely slow the leftward ratchet of socialism; we will stop it – starting with dismantling the Employment Rights Bill.
The legislation that caused the Birmingham bin strikes is set to be expanded to ethnic minorities and disabled people – with similar consequences for taxpayers and public services.
Equally predictable are the likely consequences: what ‘efficiency savings’ will translate to in practice will be even more cuts to capital budgets; ratcheting another few degrees down the arc of the doom spiral.
When Sir Keir Starmer’s new sticking plaster becomes a permanent sore, we will once again be the only party that can rip off the band aid.
Britain outlawed actual, demonstrable pay discrimination on the basis of sex with the Equal Pay Act 1970; the Equality Act 2010 is doing exactly what Gordon Brown intended when he scrambled it into law a few months before losing power.
Having not bothered to think about education policy in their years of opposition, they find themselves in government with a blank page – and expectant unions who know exactly what they want to write on it.
If any reader of this site had doubted, this week’s train driver imbroglio proves a fundamental truth: even the worst Tory government is better than a Labour one.
For SMEs already wrestling with taxes, energy costs and regulation, it risks becoming yet another straw on the camel’s back.