To all the Mick Lynch fans

[BillyStubbsTears]

https://x.com/therestismoney/status/1798758139837415853

The smug f**king idiocy of this.

1) We would NOT have got a better deal.

2) Who the f**k do you think is going to be doing the negotiation if you vote for Brexit while the Tories are in power?

[danumdon]

You may mock him there but all the RMT guys who i know are very happy with his performance.

He's talking about the where's and whyfor's in regard to how it would have affected his industry, and like a good Union man he's looked at it in his members interests.

I know management hate this fella but you have to hold your hand up and acknowledge that he's taken on the mantle of Bob Crow and moved it on a pace. Which is what his union members want from him.

I'd imagine it's quite difficult for the Red Tories to take to this fella.

[BillyStubbsTears]

That may all be the case.

Got f**k all to do with the OP though.

[Colin C No.3]

That may all be the case.

Got f**k all to do with the OP though.

With regards to your f*****g OP I’m a Mick Lynch ‘fan’.

He’s a socialist through & through, as am I.

I voted for Brexit, so to you no doubt I am a kitson with blinkers on?

I live in Bridlington which voted for Brexit overwhelmingly because we were told by Tory tw*ts our fisherman would get better quotas & extended fishing grounds. The town (along with many more fishing ports on ‘our island’) trusted the government of the day to deliver those ‘promises’.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Aren’t you so f***ing clever & boy, don’t you just bang on, and on, and on, and on about how ‘clever’ you were in voting against it & what clucks the rest of us were for hoping our politicians would deliver us the post Brexit we voted for.

Which in essence is what Mick Lynch is saying.

[Iberian Red]

That may all be the case.

Got f**k all to do with the OP though.

With regards to your f*****g OP I’m a Mick Lynch ‘fan’.

He’s a socialist through & through, as am I.

I voted for Brexit, so to you no doubt I am a kitson with blinkers on?

I live in Bridlington which voted for Brexit overwhelmingly because we were told by Tory tw*ts our fisherman would get better quotas & extended fishing grounds. The town (along with many more fishing ports on ‘our island’) trusted the government of the day to deliver those ‘promises’.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Aren’t you so f***ing clever & boy, don’t you just bang on, and on, and on, and on about how ‘clever’ you were in voting against it & what clucks the rest of us were for hoping our politicians would deliver us the post Brexit we voted for.

Which in essence is what Mick Lynch is saying.

Well done,at least you have the balls to admit you were the gullible kid in the class.

[BillyStubbsTears]

That may all be the case.

Got f**k all to do with the OP though.

With regards to your f*****g OP I’m a Mick Lynch ‘fan’.

He’s a socialist through & through, as am I.

I voted for Brexit, so to you no doubt I am a kitson with blinkers on?

I live in Bridlington which voted for Brexit overwhelmingly because we were told by Tory tw*ts our fisherman would get better quotas & extended fishing grounds. The town (along with many more fishing ports on ‘our island’) trusted the government of the day to deliver those ‘promises’.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Aren’t you so f***ing clever & boy, don’t you just bang on, and on, and on, and on about how ‘clever’ you were in voting against it & what clucks the rest of us were for hoping our politicians would deliver us the post Brexit we voted for.

Which in essence is what Mick Lynch is saying.

The point is, which I said before the referendum, during it and after it, is that everyone who voted for Brexit voted for a different thing.

A small subset of our politicians, the ones in power decided AFTER the vote what Brexit would mean.

Anyone on the Left who voted for Brexit and genuinely thought that a Tory party dominated by a right wing canal and used by Johnson to get himself into No10 was going to deliver a left wing Brexit was away with the fairies.

[SydneyRover]

Hey Col do you write DONCASTER in big letters in the sand every morning during the summer season?

[Colin C No.3]

That may all be the case.

Got f**k all to do with the OP though.

With regards to your f*****g OP I’m a Mick Lynch ‘fan’.

He’s a socialist through & through, as am I.

I voted for Brexit, so to you no doubt I am a kitson with blinkers on?

I live in Bridlington which voted for Brexit overwhelmingly because we were told by Tory tw*ts our fisherman would get better quotas & extended fishing grounds. The town (along with many more fishing ports on ‘our island’) trusted the government of the day to deliver those ‘promises’.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Aren’t you so f***ing clever & boy, don’t you just bang on, and on, and on, and on about how ‘clever’ you were in voting against it & what clucks the rest of us were for hoping our politicians would deliver us the post Brexit we voted for.

Which in essence is what Mick Lynch is saying.

The point is, which I said before the referendum, during it and after it, is that everyone who voted for Brexit voted for a different thing.

A small subset of our politicians, the ones in power decided AFTER the vote what Brexit would mean.

Anyone on the Left who voted for Brexit and genuinely thought that a Tory party dominated by a right wing canal and used by Johnson to get himself into No10 was going to deliver a left wing Brexit was away with the fairies.

When the Common Fisheries Policy came into force in the 1980’s, EU nations with a coastline & a fishing industry were to treat fish as a ‘common resource’, with the European Commission setting the annual total allowable catch for each member state with fishing fleets.

Permits were distributed among these states but the quotas given to UK fishermen were so stringent for its fleet to the extent that in its first year of implementation some 15,000 tonnes of fish ‘were left’ in the seas around the UK.

As fishing fleets began to dwindle & fishing companies went out of business the industry was on its knees.

A few days before the Brexit vote Michael Gove (whose father ran a fishing company in Scotland) said that voting for Brexit “Would ensure UK fishermen would be able to set their own fishing quotas”.

Nine out of ten UK fishermen, believing they were on the verge of taking back control of ‘UK waters’, voted to leave. They saw no other way to survive.

Of course Johnson, who we now know to be an habitual liar & an incompetent fool promised fishermen the earth (or in this case the seas) & with seemingly no other options but to put their trust & livelihoods into the hands of a ‘right wing canal’.

Given all of that, to say that these men who put their lives at risk every time they set sail “were living in the land of fairies” is not only a blinkered view it’s one I find contemptible.

[SydneyRover]

Mick Lynch is a good union man, and has the support of his members. The projection of 'Mick Lynch for PM' by some on here previous to this thread was ill thought out as firstly he was never asked nor shown signs of wanting the position. Whether he has the the skills required is a moot point.

[scawsby steve]

Mick Lynch is a good union man, and has the support of his members. The projection of 'Mick Lynch for PM' by some on here previous to this thread was ill thought out as firstly he was never asked nor shown signs of wanting the position. Whether he has the the skills required is a moot point.

I totally agree with that last sentence, Syd. It also applies to Keith, and we'll be getting the answer to that very soon.

[Iberian Red]

That may all be the case.

Got f**k all to do with the OP though.

With regards to your f*****g OP I’m a Mick Lynch ‘fan’.

He’s a socialist through & through, as am I.

I voted for Brexit, so to you no doubt I am a kitson with blinkers on?

I live in Bridlington which voted for Brexit overwhelmingly because we were told by Tory tw*ts our fisherman would get better quotas & extended fishing grounds. The town (along with many more fishing ports on ‘our island’) trusted the government of the day to deliver those ‘promises’.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Aren’t you so f***ing clever & boy, don’t you just bang on, and on, and on, and on about how ‘clever’ you were in voting against it & what clucks the rest of us were for hoping our politicians would deliver us the post Brexit we voted for.

Which in essence is what Mick Lynch is saying.

The point is, which I said before the referendum, during it and after it, is that everyone who voted for Brexit voted for a different thing.

A small subset of our politicians, the ones in power decided AFTER the vote what Brexit would mean.

Anyone on the Left who voted for Brexit and genuinely thought that a Tory party dominated by a right wing canal and used by Johnson to get himself into No10 was going to deliver a left wing Brexit was away with the fairies.

When the Common Fisheries Policy came into force in the 1980’s, EU nations with a coastline & a fishing industry were to treat fish as a ‘common resource’, with the European Commission setting the annual total allowable catch for each member state with fishing fleets.

Permits were distributed among these states but the quotas given to UK fishermen were so stringent for its fleet to the extent that in its first year of implementation some 15,000 tonnes of fish ‘were left’ in the seas around the UK.

As fishing fleets began to dwindle & fishing companies went out of business the industry was on its knees.

A few days before the Brexit vote Michael Gove (whose father ran a fishing company in Scotland) said that voting for Brexit “Would ensure UK fishermen would be able to set their own fishing quotas”.

Nine out of ten UK fishermen, believing they were on the verge of taking back control of ‘UK waters’, voted to leave. They saw no other way to survive.

Of course Johnson, who we now know to be an habitual liar & an incompetent fool promised fishermen the earth (or in this case the seas) & with seemingly no other options but to put their trust & livelihoods into the hands of a ‘right wing canal’.

Given all of that, to say that these men who put their lives at risk every time they set sail “were living in the land of fairies” is not only a blinkered view it’s one I find contemptible.

I don't believe a Tory politician would rather kick their dead grandfather in the ballax than tell the truth.

[DRFC_AjA]

Royal Mail almost going the way the steel industry did, and the car indusrty. Haha well done unions. But keep on unioning. Don't be flexible. Don't innovate. Just keep on middle managing and sending companies to the ground while the competition innovates and swallow you up 

[SydneyRover]

It's strange how some single cell units try to blame the weakest in the hierarchy when the government of the day wants to import cheaper goods rather than make anything in the UK.