Mick Lynch for PM

Seen a few clips of him recently and each time I’m impressed.

I think of he were up against the future PM incumbents then he would be having a massive impact.

Doesn’t talk shit. Doesn’t let the interviewer get away with pithy questioning.

I like the guy.

Agreed.

Which party?

Doesn’t let the interviewer get away with pithy questioning.

Get away with?

SPCS socialist party of common sense.

Talks much more sense than any politico of any party.
Politicians cannot handle statements of fact backed with hard evidence.
I think it’s good that RMT membership is increasing – but deeply concerned that johnson’s would be successors want to further emasculate trades unions.
Go Mick.

Which party?

Who f-in cares. Party of common sense.

Calls a spade a spade.

Laughs at interviewers questions (what’s a picket line betont a good one).

He’s not there for sound bits, but to put across his argument for every man, for the greater good. Would love to see him go up against politicians in a proper debate.

Sir K could do well to learn from him, but I fear it’s too late.

I arrive at St Pancras, London, tomorrow from Munich and will struggle to get to my final destination.

I honestly couldn’t GAF if it means it’s an arse ache to get to where I want to go.
More power to the people.

Inflation is rising, the money in your pocket is soon to be worth sweet FA. Good luck, folks.

He has competition

Mick is awesome. I’ve seen him laying waste to various tory toffs on telly recently. He does exceedingly well.

Scotroutes – both Lynch and Dempsey learned a lot from Bob Crowe and now present with a slghtly softer edge.
Big thumbs up from me.

All Lynch and Dempsey do is use words as you find them defined in a dictionary. Who’d of thunk that that’s all you have to do to communicate basic ideas.

Makes a change from the word scramble currently being dished up on Newsnight, (had to switch over to Big Zuu)

He also brutally exposed how RW our mainstream television media is as well, basically taking their cues from Murdoch wether they realise it or not.

At last , some opposition in this country.

Sadly fighting from a corner that a large proportion of the population doesn’t agree with…. Essential, albeit Low paid, low skilled workers.

The embarrassed working classes won’t have it. I bought an electric German car, I’m better than the skivvies. Besides they will be automated out in few years time, replaced by signs or vending machines.

Elon’s amazing isn’t he!

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Legend – I want the T.

https://tufac.bigcartel.com/product/mick-lynch-t-shirt

He pwned the odious and sanctimonious Nick Ferrari on LBC today

Was listening to that earlier, Ferrari knew fine well exactly how much Dempsey was paid but decided to inflate the figure to a “six figure salary”, Ferrari is an odious creep.

Here’s Dempseys’ response to being sacked by Starmer, he won’t be anywhere near the front bench anytime soon which is a damn shame, Starmer needs a slap in the coupon to rouse him from whatever fugue blue state he’s found himself in.

Since covid, the corruption that exists in government was exposed. For me, the pennies started to drop and it became obvious that the Eton elite were stripping the public cupboards bare. It usually begins with Daves tenure and all the bad for the country decisions he put into place (Brexit, Green rubbish, austerity, public pension changes).

For most of the last decade I was on a zero percent payrise as I worked for the. Gov.

I now work in the private sector and Mick & Co have inspired me to join our union. They are exposing the corruption and galvanising PAYE tax payers to stand up against the ‘sponsored’ politicians who are robbing the country!

Power to the People!

Lynch has more knowledge about rail than anyone asking hime ‘tough’ questions and he is also very straight with them. I think he is great.

However, would need to know a lot more about him for PM or leader of a party. He is clearly socialist in mind so a good start but do we want to mention Brexit…

I’d love to see him in a debate with Grant Shapps along with a neutral 3rd party real-time fact-checking

Low paid, low skilled workers.

They aren’t low-skilled, they are differently skilled and undervalued. You would be unable to do their job on day one of starting at their place of work. You would need to acquire the skills that those people use before you were effective and being of value your wage.
Requiring a “ticket” to do a job does not make the holder better than those that do not need one to do theirs.

Lynch for PM!

Really!

Would be in bed with Putin before you know it and the UK is the next Moscow suburb!!

They aren’t low-skilled, they are differently skilled and undervalued. You would be unable to do their job on day one of starting at their place of work.

You’re correct…. I meant low skilled in the eyes of those they are ferrying around.
Obviously the drivers are not instantly replaceable.

Lynch for PM!

Really!

Would be in bed with Putin before you know it and the UK is the next Moscow suburb!!

Wait until you find out about Boris Johnson…

Wait until you find out about Boris Johnson…

I’d assumed it was satire…..

Pragmatic Socialist Party maybe

He stands up for his supporters, he argues with facts, seems to have no time for spin or sycophantic journos. He’s also properly exposed Starmer for being more Tory than I’d hoped.

If only there were more of him.

What a weird thread title, i know Mick Lynch is doing well for his union, but he’s able to say what he wants, when he wants without the issue of voters, he has backing from his members, and more importantly, the internal structure within the RMT, there is no translation to this against politics, especially in a country that has repeatedly shown itself to be right of centre, christ we’re about to replace Boris Johnson with Liz Truss, yet folk still think the voting public are going to swerve towards the far left!

The more i read the political stuff on this site, the more i feel we’re never going to get away from a tory government that panders to the right more and more.

They aren’t low-skilled, they are differently skilled and undervalued.

This is the thing that irks me, you could argue low skilled is something that someone with a reasonable amount of effort could achieve with a small degree of training.

Knowing a couple of drivers, the work they have to put in, they’re not low skilled in the slightest.

It’s a lazy and dismissive term that is overly simplistic.

christ we’re about to replace Boris Johnson with Liz Truss

Unless you are personally a member of the Conservative Party we are not about to replace Boris Johnson with Liz Truss.

There is quite a lot of evidence that the public very much appreciates straight talking politicians.

Which ironically is one of the reasons why Liz Truss is tipped to be the next Tory leader. However confused her political and economic policies might be it is precisely this clarity which she presents that appeals to many people.

And is likely to cause huge headaches for Starmer as he tries to maintain his strategy of not letting people know exactly what his position is on anything.

Knowing a couple of drivers, the work they have to put in, they’re not low skilled in the slightest.

The RMT strike is not about drivers pay, they are (mainly) in ASLEF anyway.

Wow that Mick Lynch interview was amazing.
He has the information at his fingertips, he believes everything he says, and he has common sense and can explain his points clearly and succinctly.

Definitely impressed with Mick Lynch and Eddy Dempsey. It really irks the ‘journalists’ that can’t make two blokes talking sense be the bad guys.

Union membership in my place has gone up very recently. My full team are all members now.

Requiring a “ticket” to do a job does not make the holder better than those that do not need one to do theirs.

…and there are no qualifications needed at all to become a Member of Parliament,
Just a popularity contest, mainly the popularity of your party leader.

Would be interesting to see why he supported leave and if he is happy with how it’s going.
Leave was only ever going to result in less workers rights.
If anyone could come up with a good reason for leaving it would make my day.

Would be interesting to see why he supported leave and if he is happy with how it’s going.

I’ll wager it was along the lines of membership of the EU giving unrestricted access to cheap labour force suppressing wages for UK workers? He may well be happy for other transport workers (lorry drivers) in that respect.

I like him, but his basic USP seems to be a reputation for straight-talking truthfulness.

Unfortunately this means he can’t be PM, because he is a Brexiteer and that instantly means he’s going to have to tell some lies to someone somewhere.

Dickyboy, these strikes would seem to indicate that his wishes didn’t come to fruition.

these strikes would seem to indicate that his wishes didn’t come to fruition.

He hoped that leaving the EU would end all class antagonism in the UK and the need to ever go on strike?

Blimey, he got that wrong – what was he thinking??

He hoped that leaving the EU would end all class antagonism in the UK

Jesus there’s Inception levels of snobbery and general twatish stitch-up behaviour in the UK, never come across anywhere else as bad. Everyone has snide opinions on everybody else and how they should and shouldn’t live their lives and what interventions should be brought to bare.