You have loutish Union Barons living on six figure salaries (one notably still in a council house thereby preventing someone more needy from having it) paid for by Union members who are often living on minimum wages or close to it, regularly calling for strikes that the vast majority of members do not want and certainly haven't voted for, when our nation is going through one of the toughest recessions in living memory.
I would thoroughly like to see this Government get tough on the Unions and restrict their ability to call strikes, severely curtailing the damaging effect on our economy and see the greedy trouble makers who run the Unions become legally accountable for the jobs they endanger by their actions.
Whilst checking my twitter feed last evening though, I was disgusted to find the following article from the Daily Telegraph in which vile T-shirts are being sold at the Trades Union Congress Annual Conference in Brighton, enough is enough!
TUC Congress: T-shirts rejoicing over Thatcher's death sold at trades union gathering
By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent
Commemorative T-shirts rejoicing in the moment when Baroness Thatcher dies are being sold at the annual trades union gathering in Brighton.
The T-shirts, on sale at the Trades Union Congress’s annual conference, cost
£10 each and boast that union members will want to "dance on her grave" when she
dies.
Last night outraged Conservative MPs called for Labour leader Ed Miliband to
disassociate himself with the TUC and for the police to investigate. Mr
Miliband's shadow Chancellor Ed Balls is due to address the annual gathering
tomorrow.
The T-shirts, which are wrapped in clear plastic, are being marketed by the
Derbyshire Unemployed Workers Centre, an organisation which provides "welfare
rights advice services" and which is affiliated to the TUC.
One of the garments has an image of Mrs Thatcher’s spitting image puppet,
with the words “Hey ho the witch is dead” along side.
Attached to the plastic is a notice urging the buyer only to wear when Lady
Thatcher has died. It says: “In the event of Thatcher's death of Thatcher open
bag and wear Tee shirt immediately."
Another T-shirt features a white cross on a grave with “Thatcher” across it, and the words: “A generation of trade unionists will dance on her grave”.
The T-shirts build on the residual anger in the union movement over the way major British industries were allowed to decline in the 1980s, while unions saw their influence wane because of tough anti-strike laws.
Shay Boyle, who has so far sold six of the T-shirts, said £2 from every sale went towards the centre, which has had its funding cut by £40,000.
He joked that “Scottish people seem to like them”, adding that many people agreed with the sentiment but did not want to buy one.
He said: “Many people have said 'I sympathise but I would never been seen wearing one'.”
But last night Conservative MPs criticised the T-shirts as tastless. Conor Burns, a Tory MP who regularly visits Lady Thatcher at her home in central London, said: “These sickening sentiments speak to something disordered in the human condition.
“It shows an ugly side to the hard left who cannot move on from their utter defeat at the hands of this remarkable, but now frail, lady.
“Not for the first time Lady T shows why she amounts to so much more than her opponents.”
Aidan Burley MP, who helped to found the Trade Union Reform Union Campaign which is calling for a cut in the amount of time union officials can work with civil servants, said: “This sick merchandise tells you all you need to know about some in the union movement - baseless, cowardly and utterly devoid of morality.
“Those anticipating and celebrating the death of an elderly lady and mainstream Western leader are simply beyond the pale.
“There is no room in British politics for people like these - Ed Milliband should condemn them and the police should investigate.”
Priti Patel MP added: “I am appalled. This is typical of the TUC attacking those who have successfully fought for jobs and the creation of economic prosperity in Great Britain. With a declining membership this is a desperate and disrespectful act by the TUC.”
The space for the stand is provided free of charge by the TUC. A spokesman disputed the Workers' Centre claim that it was affiliated to the TUC, insisting that it was a "recognised" body with looser ties to the organisation. A TUC spokesman declined to comment on the T-shirts.
Another T-shirt features a white cross on a grave with “Thatcher” across it, and the words: “A generation of trade unionists will dance on her grave”.
The T-shirts build on the residual anger in the union movement over the way major British industries were allowed to decline in the 1980s, while unions saw their influence wane because of tough anti-strike laws.
Shay Boyle, who has so far sold six of the T-shirts, said £2 from every sale went towards the centre, which has had its funding cut by £40,000.
He joked that “Scottish people seem to like them”, adding that many people agreed with the sentiment but did not want to buy one.
He said: “Many people have said 'I sympathise but I would never been seen wearing one'.”
But last night Conservative MPs criticised the T-shirts as tastless. Conor Burns, a Tory MP who regularly visits Lady Thatcher at her home in central London, said: “These sickening sentiments speak to something disordered in the human condition.
“It shows an ugly side to the hard left who cannot move on from their utter defeat at the hands of this remarkable, but now frail, lady.
“Not for the first time Lady T shows why she amounts to so much more than her opponents.”
Aidan Burley MP, who helped to found the Trade Union Reform Union Campaign which is calling for a cut in the amount of time union officials can work with civil servants, said: “This sick merchandise tells you all you need to know about some in the union movement - baseless, cowardly and utterly devoid of morality.
“Those anticipating and celebrating the death of an elderly lady and mainstream Western leader are simply beyond the pale.
“There is no room in British politics for people like these - Ed Milliband should condemn them and the police should investigate.”
Priti Patel MP added: “I am appalled. This is typical of the TUC attacking those who have successfully fought for jobs and the creation of economic prosperity in Great Britain. With a declining membership this is a desperate and disrespectful act by the TUC.”
The space for the stand is provided free of charge by the TUC. A spokesman disputed the Workers' Centre claim that it was affiliated to the TUC, insisting that it was a "recognised" body with looser ties to the organisation. A TUC spokesman declined to comment on the T-shirts.
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