Boris Johnson must face down the rail unions and outlaw strikes threatening national infrastructure
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ENOUGH is enough.
Strikes by militant, greedy, Marxist-run unions which cripple the rail network and the Tube must be crushed permanently.
They are a throwback to the bleak 1970s . . . tactics and practices as obsolete in 2022 as the phone box.
For Boris Johnson to survive he must be bolder.
He should start by immediately outlawing walkouts which shut key parts of our national infrastructure.
The RMT’s members are well paid, have enviable pensions and were kept in jobs by vast sums of public money when demand collapsed during Covid.
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Even now they transport substantially fewer passengers than they once did.
Yet they insist on ZERO job losses and a staggering 11 per cent rise.
RMT chief Mick Lynch feigns his regrets.
In reality he relishes inflicting grief on the Tories.
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Britain is in crisis.
We are all feeling the pain.
How dare these thugs make life worse for commuters and families?
As Margaret Thatcher faced down the miners, so Boris must the rail unions.
Up isn’t down
WE hope we don’t have to spell out to Downing Street what a tax cut actually is.
Here’s what it’s not: A promise to lessen the looming corporation tax hike if businesses meet certain conditions.
We know that Tories who style themselves as tax-cutters while raising levels to a 70-year high may be confused.
But if a tax goes up, it’s a rise. If it goes down, it’s a cut. Happy to help.
“Lower taxes” doesn’t mean smaller increases.
It means lowering income tax, ditching green levies on energy bills, slashing VAT on fuel.
And we are far from alone in imploring Chancellor Rishi Sunak to do that — and rein in Government spending too.
The OECD think tank reckons Britain will fare worse than any major economy bar Russia next year — and the remedy is turbo-charging growth via tax cuts.
Do it, Rishi, before the rot truly sets in.
New Fuhrer
FEW thought we would see another Hitler.
The trauma of World War Two surely made it impossible.
Yet there in the Kremlin he sits.
The chilling parallels between the tactics of the Nazis and Putin are plain to our Defence Secretary Ben Wallace:
Mass executions of civilians.
Forced deportations to secret camps deep inside Russia.
The steady eradication of a sovereign nation.
Legions of boy soldiers sacrificed cold-bloodedly on the altar of the dictator’s insane ambition.
This new Fuhrer even aims to starve millions worldwide if need be.
But still the pipsqueaks running France and Germany try to reason with him.
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President Macron insists Russia must not be humiliated.
What level of horror will it take for him to grow a spine?