These trade unionists are a blinkered bunch. In today’s Sunday Post, one from the boilermakers’ union is quoted as talking about “Scotland’s austerity shame after a decade of cuts to local government funding and . . . education budgets”.
Not a hint of recognition that the austerity was due to the fiscal stupidity of Gordon Brown (Labour, Scottish) during 13 years of New Labour misrule – supported by the boilermakers and other trade unions, of course.
If you’ve overspent recklessly and you’re deep in debt, austerity is inevitable. And the only shame belongs to the politicians and the trade unions who made the austerity happen.
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