Union leader Eddie Dempsey makes a fool of Tories and journalists
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If Eddie Dempsey and Mick Lynch started a workers political party, I would definitely vote for them.
There used to be one. Called The Labour Party but Blair got rid of that.
@@stephenreeds3632 Yup agree. Labour today is a zombie party, no platform no message and agree with most of the current government's authoritarian policies. They're too busy purging the traditional worker unions and socialist left members of the party and filling their ranks with Tory Blairite neoliberal disaster capitalists.
Yup so would I
@@stephenreeds3632 correct.
And me as well.
Seeing Widdicombe being politely but firmly shut down. Priceless.
Did you notice the video has been clipped. Be interesting to see the whole exchange.
She looked flabbergasted that someone dared have an answer for her.
Yes - screaming someone down with economically illiterate clichés really did show what unions are all about.
@@incurableromantic4006 please explain. Im not very intelligent
@@loadapish What specifically do you wish to know?
There’s nothing more satisfying than batshit crazy Widdecombe being schooled on by pure common sense
"It's more than what nurses are getting" "Nurses deserve far more than they are getting" Exactly!! Way to keep your eye on the ball. Huge respect.
So do Care workers but I guess the people who value them are people who need them.
Nah ! Theyre too busy making tictok videos during a plandemic & injecting people with a clot shot ! Educate yourself beyond msm doofus 🙄
@@rickibaran4273 Let's create an economy where people in the City of London have to wash the sweat out of their shirts at the end of the day and nurses can put their feet up and relax at the end of the day.
That interviewer doesnt care, shes probably getting paid more than nurses to talk like an arse.
Also... nurses are striking too, lady, what was the point she thought she was making there?
Widdecombe's shocked face was a delight.
She was horrified. How dare he suggests matching wages with inflation!
Typical of Widdecombe it her with the truth she's up the creak without a paddle 😂
She's a cretin and a ghoul.
@@donaldellis3609 Imagine having your ideology questioned by a Trade union person....absolutely disgraceful....doesn't he know his place!!!... Widdecombe is in a timewarp... a 19th century one..
Awful owld bag.
Eddie Dempsey, you are an absolute legend. A union leader that actually has a backbone all power to you and Mick Lynch.
Absolutely this country needs people like this to stand up for working class people. We've been trodden under for years by these fucking scum sucking leaches. I shake their hands any day.
well said eddie but unfortunately the sheeple are too fuck--n thick to realise this and will side with bosses because the fuckin daily mail aka Murdoch tells them unions are to blame and they believe it. till we get the tories out of power and fuck the monarchy off nothing will ever change.
Legend?...... i'd never heard of him until this strike, having said that he's doing a good job for the workers
Plastic paddies all the way
I’m watching from abroad and I’m repeatedly astonished at how TV hosts are pummeling union leaders in the UK. Why?
The fact he keeps his cool and others try to talk over him.... You know he's speaking the truth.
God! The way he cuts down Widecombe's wage spiral arguement so calmly and effortlessly - it's a thing of beauty.
Doesn't raise his voice, stays calm, has the facts ready, doesn't condescend... THAT'S how you have a proper debate! Nice one Eddie 👏🏽👍🏾
This isn't a proper debate there needs ro be good faith on both sides. Besides which if he screamed it at the top of his lungs it wouldn't make it any less true.
YES
As new technology is introduced, it only means one thing, to reduce numbers of employees and maximise profit. The the ultimate objective seems to be: driverless trains, ticketless travel, zero security at train stations and self maintaining infrastructure.
Complete don. Needs to run for parliament
@@conorkelly947 had to read your comment twice, but yea I agree it's not much of a debate and more of Eddie literally taking reporters to school about basic economics while they argue against him in bad faith.
"Oh but nurses don't earn that much" - Should we all take a pay cut to ensure we earn less than nurses? It's not a race to the bottom. The RMT strike is not just for railway workers, the principles cover all workers. Some people are so thick.
Absolutely and I love Dempsey's response on that one; "nurses should be getting more". And that's not the fault of unions that are trying to get their workers a better shout.
It isn't a thick question, but rather a loaded one. Or a thickly loaded one, perhaps :) She's trying to get a soudbite out of him that they can use to make it seem that the RMT is throwing nurses or other workers under the bus, in a pathetic attempt to prevent unions from taking coordinated action. In That regard, the very first words out of his mouth immediately deny her that soudbite whilst also showing support for other workers.
And a lot of them have vested interests in the rotten system just as it is and always is under Tory toxicity.
Almost perfect encapsulation of the utter formulaic uselessness of TV news interviewers nowadays. Can someone resurrect Robin Day?
Tell that to the people who've been forced out of pocket because of those strikes. And funny how the union leader is never quite in the same predicament as the members of the union.
What a bloke. Well wishes to him from Australia 🇦🇺
Well said Eddie 👏👏👏👏👏👏🥃thanks for fitting for us cheers 🍻🏴🏴
if only this was the stuff our politicians were made of
Remember what the oligarch owned media did to the last man of the people who was put forward by the citizens... The lying went on n on ....
Until the owners got what they wanted...if we let them they will own us totally own us ...
FREEDOM 😅😅 WHY DO PEOPLE JUST VEND OVER AND SAY GO ON U OLD ETONIAN YOU
Yeh, who almost became PM and Chancellor in 2019?
@@FelonyBellend Corbyn and McDonnell would have been excellent. McDonnell is a working class intellectual who has done more than most to develop an alternative economic framework for addressing a modern economy that serves the needs of people not profit.
The system isn't set up to assist the public. It's set up to earn them money and power.
Sadly if there was MPs like this they wouldn't make it to the back bench.
MPs are picked not voted for
Chalk and Cheese.
Well said Eddie 👏 good to hear someone speaking the truth & not being talked down ✌
He's quaking in his boots at the thought of being put in his place by cheese muncher and home wrecker Liz Truss.
Dole dossers hate him
@@DANNY-bv7od isn’t that the entirety of Labour then?
@@JohnDoe-fd6rl nope . I think you meant the tories who have just had the biggest liar ever In 10 , Downing St.
@@scooby1992 nope the dole dossers are definitely the Labour voters, sorry boy but that’s the facts 😂
Love this guy. Just wished there were more like him.
Thanks, Eddie. Clear and truthful.
Could listen to Eddie and Mick putting the elite in their place all day! 👌👌
Yea absolutely me too. He doesn't fuck about with these assholes he gets right to the bastards. We could do with more of Eddie. Good on ya Eddie
Pay is
Ask them what they take home a month your be surprised
Ask rishi sunak and his mates what they take home a month Terry. I think Eddie and Mick are giving good value for money. Without union leaders like them we wouldn't have sick pay, rights in the work place, maternity leave etc etc.
Me too!
Great fella, knows his stuff and takes no shit. I work in retail, minimum wage, worked throughout all the lockdowns, called a key worker (what a joke) and the GMB Union have just negotiated us a 10p per hour pay rise. Fucking pathetic. The GMB needs people like this that stand up for their members.
"when we're all wearing the same trousers, then you can tell me to tighten my belt"
Mark Blyth
I have so much respect for Eddie and Mick. They remind me of the old trade unionists from the 70s who weren't afraid to speak up on behalf of the workers. It is sad that most of the media class treat people like Eddie and Mick like oikish upstarts and treat tories and industry leaders like demigods.
Yes I remember when the left had balls and did not doff their cloth caps to the landed and industrial gentry. The tide of Thatcherism is going out.
This man is brilliant absolutely spot on.The greedy rich are a disgrace.
I'm pleased you managed to shut up that old bat Ann. I can't stand that mad woman.
She is a complete nutcase!
@@martinmcdonald4207 Ikr.Why did the TV station have her on ?.
@@TheWatcher369 A bit of Monty Phyton comedy?
Yes - that was a joy to watch
Former Tory, now member of the defunked ukip party!!
BRAVO 👏👏👏 well stated. Thank you. I'm Canadian but seeing this gives me hope for my country.
🙏🕊️☮️❤️🙏
Eddie and Mick - absolute legends. Telling it how it is, calling right-wing ideology out and, crucially, keeping their cool. They know they're right.
“No one is worried about pay at the top” This every f*cking time 🔥🤙🏻
It's guys like Eddie and Mick Lynch who should be running this country
100% !! Great union leaders
You want to take us back to the 1970s, where anyone old enough to remember them does not want to return.
@@ArtyEffem No, I just want to see workers given a fair deal after 12 years of getting poorer in real terms. It's not a big ask in apparently the fifth biggest global economy in 2022
@@ArtyEffem Were the food banks in the 70s. We're there people who had jobs and relied on UC. Were the families who had to take two jobs to survive, that meant other people looking after there children????
@@ArtyEffem UK conservatives want to take you back to the conditions of the 1870s.
We need people like this.
Fantastic. Love Eddie Dempsey. He talks sense; tells it how it is. That's what we need! 👏
“Wage price spiral” is a total fallacy. Same as “trickle-down”. Just a complete con. Wage price spiral would only make sense if workers’ pay was ahead of inflation; in fact they’re only asking to catch up. We’re at 10% inflation with wages trailing miles behind prices; you cannot blame that on workers.
Dempsey and Lynch are doing a fantastic job of explaining these issues and fighting for their members. More power to them. ✊🏼
So true, funny how "wage price spiral" only comes up when the Unions ask for a pay rise.
Fucking inflation has been going up regardless of wages going up. Typical Tory talking point thats demonstrable bullshit but they parrot it constantly to keep us working class plebs in our place.
Well there is a supply price spiral right now. The Tories have shown no way to control it. Truss is promising tax cuts which without huge productivity performance improvements will also increase this spiral, guess what there are no details on how they would increase productivity. So how else do they plan to temper (note that I don't say reduce) inflation, they make people take real pay cuts. This country is on a very fast track to recession with high inflation. Still the Tories will go with Truss, what a mess.
The moment someone like the ECB's Christine Lagarde says "wage price spiral" is a major danger and needs to be averted, that's when I understood it was yet another attempt to screw the working people. She is a corporate stooge.
Look to to the US. Minimum pay bring risen across the board. Thats the most anti unionist west nation
A man representing working people, a man giving you the factual truth
Love it, fucking love it
My favourite bit, which I 100% agree with, was when he said, "that there is plenty of money in the transport industry but it is leaving the industry and the profits are going to tax havens and no tax is being paid on it." This is one of the major issues in the UK and it needs addresed immediately.
Just watched this twice. So phukking good to see somebody standing up for the ordinary people of the UK. For sure the UK needs more people such as Eddy and Mick Lynch. God bless them both.
I love the look on Anne Widdecombe's face, priceless! But she couldn't counter his argument hehe!
Last time I saw over-acting like hers was in WWE.
Nothing to love about that old hags face.
It would be nice if someone could find Anne Widdecombe's horcruxes and destroy them to rid the world of that evil monster.
They cut the video
@@involuntarilychad4048 I see.
Labour HQ need to give the RMT a call, they’ve gave more hope to lower and working class people than Starmer has ever-done
I could listen to him all day long every day. He chops these bastards right down to size. Just 👏
Starmer isn't interested in working class people alas.
Starmer will not stand with the unions they are not fashionable enough for him
You're right Labour need these people with them, talking sense not politics
There's not been a Labour party since Blair, only Tory-Lite.
As a nurse, I hate it when we are used to drown out the cause/fight of another profession.....every job should be paying a living wage and if an employer tells you the money isn't there they are probably lying . Or it's being siphoned off at the top.
Anne finally met her nemesis, someone she can't just talk over and expect to be right.
"They're having a disco!" 😂. That line killed me 🤣. Eddie you are brilliant. Keep up the great work. You along with Mick Lynch, are a national hero. Please set up a "Workers Political Party". You'll get my vote along with millions of others I'm sure. Power to the people!
I would imagine they're either already in TUSC... probably socialist patty of England and Wales
It's a genius line! Short, simple, hilarious and bang on.
I am from a family, that we work hard, we pay for our own house and way of life and the cost of living is unfair. We have nothing to save or give our kids fun experiences as a family. This is the worst UK life has ever been. I was born in the 80s and life today under the Tories is awful for working class people. Eddie is totally right.
I'm a skiver, a scrounger, a lazy bastard, who can't work following a "life changing" accident. People didn't like people like me "living a life of luxury" on benefits, because the Daily Mail, Government, BBC (same thing) and Channel 4 told them they didn't. They voted for benefit cuts, they applauded benefit cuts, well here's a surprise, if they need help now or in the future, it isn't going to be there. If people have "life changing" accidents or suffer serious illness (1 in 2 or 50% of us are going to get cancer) who's going to support them. We can't afford to save because outgoings outstrip income, there's no point sitting there, thinking "it will never happen to me" statistically, yes it fckng will. They've voted away, not only my safety net but also their own, if or when it happens, not the smartest of moves really. You see, this lazy, scrounging, luxury living piece of shit worked for over 40 years. So I thought I would get splattered across the road by a large lorry, then I wouldn't have to work anymore!!!! Anybody, absolutely anybody can find themselves in my position, tomorrow or the next day or whenever. Then we can welcome them into the "life of luxury" club. We can all sit on the sofa, eating takeaway pizza drinking beer and watching sky TV. Because that really happens, in the minds of people who will never wear their brains out thinking for themselves. The temptation is to say "fuck them, it's what they wanted" but the reality is, I don't want to see anybody else going through it. It's time to stop shooting ourselves in the foot, over 150,000 people have died under the current system. They've done the sick, they are doing the low paid, then it will be moving on up the food chain. They have tried it once before but it didn't work, so watch out for the restart of the generation war. Why should those bloody pensioners be rich while you work full-time and can't afford to live. Don't fall for it there are very few rich pensioners. These divisions hand everything to the government on a silver plate. How many times are we going to keep handing it to them and get fck all back when we most need it, whether by accident, illness or unemployment?
I remember the 80's under the Tories... way, way worse than today.. much worse..
@@krytonsbeast No they weren't
@@krytonsbeast Na, we had good music then 😛
@@pseudonayme7717 Yeah, we did have good music 😜
Couldn't agree more. Nice one Eddie!!
Good on you Eddie. I hope your dad's well. Victory to the RMT. Damo from the Marquis.
I was in a Union for years, its not all about pay its creating a fair workplace so generations coming through will walk into jobs that offer good pay, work life balance, just rewards etc
"Was" enough said.
@@The_Phoenix_Saga Stop counting money greedy spook
@@The_Phoenix_Saga the skunk hasspoken im alright jack the type of person who would rob a beggar and give it to a snivelling eton boy with offshore accounts we[the people]know
@@neilwilliams1518 care to rephrase that with articulate vocabulary? Or has national education paid for by the tax payer been wasted on you?
And before you rant on - I'm no Eton toff nor a supporter of them, but I'm no pretencious want for nothing, bleeding heart either.
I like you, was a Union member till I retired. I am dismayed to hear the rhetoric being banded about nowadays. Things are going back to the 1920’s and we all know where that went.
Absolutely loving Union leaders at the moment. Informative, eloquent, and taking down reporters left right and centre. Keep it up gents. We need this
They are UK's last hope.
Most union leaders have always been like this. They get a terrible press because it's in the interests of the press owners and big corporations to give them one.
Very well said.
@@ceecee130847 because press dont want their big payments to stop and they twist the engender to the general public/trade union that we are the problem and we have to pay for other peoples mistakes higher up. Covid could have been prevent better…if the government took it seriously sooner. No they kept travelling to and from the uk with minimum care of the virus borders should have been open to only returning citizens and all citizens should have had a two week mandatory stay at a covid centre where people would isolated and slow down the spread giving the country more time to act. Would have cost less to run that for a few months (the time it would take for majority of citizens to return home from abroad) …instead of furlough for 20x the amount of people returning
@@ceecee130847 and yet ironically they prop themselves up in exactly the same way.
Legend. Absolutely smashed it.
Total legend. At last, a strong advocate for workers 👍👍
We need guys like this running the country - someone who cares for the people they represent - the general public - not executives and billionaires.
We won’t get that voting Conservative
Don’t forget the tax dodger Gary Lineker or King Arthur Scargill who stole 5 million pounds from the miners while they were going to the soup kitchen.
@@timcoakley5498 Let's not forget the parasites in the city and the government front bench millionairs who have shares in the energy companies !!!!!!!
Big up Eddie, Solidarity to all workers 🙌 General Strike now
Eddie Dempsey and Mick Lynch should be running the Labour Party.
@@martinmcdonald4207 and the country!
Mick and Eddie are just incredible.
Finally a straightforward talking expert on politics with all the right views and logical thinking. Why can't we have more of these people in political parties...
Top bloke, knows his stuff running rings around these tory clowns 👏
He represents everything the Tory Thieves hate. An honest decent man of the people.
He put that dinosaur in her place,game over Anne
@@daveduck4315 Her place is six underground. Fingers crossed.
@@daveduck4315 don't put on your jackboots just yet.
@@The_Phoenix_Saga polished and ready
What an absolute legend! I wish our union had leaders like this.
Side note: why is that old trout Anne Widdecombe still on TV?
I've just had a phone call from the trouts and they are not happy that you compared them to Anne Widdecombe.lol
Old trout is the perfect description of her.
That's a bit unfair on old trout.
Side note: why is that old trout Anne Widdecombe still on TV?
You may well ask. Hardly decorative, but entertainingly confrontational while in receipt of a verbal pasting... She lost the argument when she started to become rude. (not that she had a chance from the outset, though)
I know that Diane Abbot and Michael Portillo used to pitch up on Andrew Neil's show "This Week" as often as they could, at a rate, per appearance, I read once, of £900 + a car to get them to the studio, and return the home. So that may explain why she was there, the attraction of money for toffee. The real question though, is why she was invited, no?
And... Was Eddie Dempsey equally well remunerated for being the star guest? I could watch him confound Tories for several hours every day. I don't think I'm alone in that, am I?
@@robertlawson8572 You most definitely are not alone in thinking that.Cabinet Ministers have been pulling out of interviews and appearances so maybe that was why she was asked to appear.As you said "The attraction of money for toffee" would have been her incentive.
Peace be with you 🕊️
All facts, blessings from an American here. We need more people like Eddie in America, in the UK, and internationally.
Absolutely! He and Mick Lynch are the breath of fresh air that the US also needs!
Eddie and Mick national heroes, they give me hope for our future.
That's wonderful working class taking a stand at last.
Always found it odd that poor down trodden working class folk vote Tory all the lives for generations and keep going back to the ballot box and voting them in again. When does the penny drop that the Tory toffs are laughing at them?
Still not enough :(
When Eddie starts giving hard nosed facts they are completely clueless.
This man needs more airtime.
Never heard of Eddie Dempsey, but my word does he speak some good stuff. Also, I thought Mick Lynch was head of the RMT?
Every now and then I come back to this video when the tories get too much for me to take. There are bright people in this country and they should be leading. I'd vote for this Eddie Dempsey as our Prime Minister!
I love Eddie Dempsey and Mick Lynch. Real life heroes.
You and mick are different class keep it up , we’re with you!!
Well said, keep saying it !!
I love the likes of Eddie and Mick finally saying the unsayable on MSM.
They are skinning these corporate shills alive.
He's just absolutely brilliant absolutely
Yea it's fantastic to listen to them both. Just a breath of fresh air. Beautiful music to my ears.
And not once have the lost their cool...
The reason they invited Eddie is because Mick showed them for the clowns they are, so they thought "let's get someone else, we can't keep up with Mick". Well, Eddie is as good as Mick so that didn't work for them either. I suspect they won't invite anyone from the RMT soon and will only talk to the Tories.
Eddie and Mick agree with the degenerate corporations cultural war though don't they.
This all makes sense and under the Tories this won’t change. Ann looked astonished at being corrected. Love it.
She needs to get back on strictly.
@@victorformosa228 she needs to keel over.
@@rainbowevil She wouldn't be missed, like the rest of the self serving 🐷 pigs.
If I was to see this man on the streets, I would assume he's an unknowing geezer. I have really got to widen my mind. This guy knows his stuff and how to give that information.
Absolutely spot on 👍
He's such a top guy
In 1962?
What a LEGEND. Speaking 100% truth. Any working class Tory voters out there looking at their feet after hearing that..? Come on, what have you got to say about it?
Not much then, ….
Not a peep.😠
They never have a good reason to keep voting Tory. At best you get “Labour would be worse” without ever explaining why. They are literally voting against their own interests and are too stupid to see it.
@@00pugsly48 welcome to little england & the working class Tory's who voted them in.😠😡
A large Conservative fridge?
Having worked for a private company that was previously a nationalised company, it blows my mind that governments don’t employ the bosses/businessmen and pay them well enough to run the companies on behalf of the government to keep the profits for ourselves. The company I used to work for had 5 shareholders and none of them British, their official office was based in jersey too so we weren’t even getting tax on the profits!
It's how lots of state enterprise is run in countries with proper governments like Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Finland etc.
Well done for seeing off Widdecombe (I suppose a lot of people have posted that).
Finally a Union representative who talks sense. Well said my man god bless.
Apparently MPs 'aren't allowed' to call other politicians liars and say they're arguments are rubbish... Did you see her reaction when he said that? It's time for us to tell MPs it straight, just like Mick and Eddie have done.
We're sick of being poor and told we should be happy we've got a job. I want nice things for my family too! I want my son to grow up in a better position/country than me.
I’m afraid none of our children will be better off than us. Brexit and the tories have seen to that!!
Well said. Well as I call them PLOT TICIANS, they can't call each other LIARS because that would be HYPOCRISY.
I have nothing but admiration for this man.
He's really impressive. He's so well briefed and knows his facts and industry
💯right behind this
You've said 100% more than the MP wankers that should be supporting the working class and I'm talking about the so called labour party. Good in ya mate. 👍👍🇬🇧👍👍👍👍
What about the party in power for the last dozen years ffs?
Labour aren't in power. They're the opposition party so don't have any say in how the country is run. Surely you understand this or are you a Tory stooge.
The Labor Party is MIA. How sad the working man has no one looking out for them.
@@diavoloucraino well the tories aren't going to support the working class now are they
@@mikeyoung8293 Can't dirty their shoes on common soil let alone support us peasants
absolute legend!!
Never heard of this guy before but Eddie is an absolute legend
Seems like more of an heirloom.
Every interview you see “journalists” asking them the same old questions to make them look like selfish jerks. It’s also “aren’t you being greedy?” It’s never asking how it’s come to this or about their struggle. It’s absolutely shameful they are so on board with turning people on each other.
Usually the same "journalists" who simper and nod whenever some swivel eyed Tory is lying right to their faces.
Shell made 70% more revenue in the first quarter of 2022 than in the last quarter of 2021.
70% more!!!
Nobody is asking them are they greedy but the bloke who fights for the unions members to get few pounds extra an hour is being greedy.
WTAF!
This is what's wrong with the UK today.
Rotten from the inside.
@@almiromeragic9341 I completely agree mateZ it’s absolutely disgusting.
Absolutely. Where tf do they get off? All the media immediately take the stance of nurses dont get this or that? Wtf has that got to do with it? Why do they take the side of the tories?
@@David-cm4okJust to compare nurses salaries in UK and in Denmark where i live...
Danish nurses got 5% pay rise last year agreed with the government and as that was not satisfactory (because last time salary was reviewed was more than couple of years ago), they went to strike untill they agreed on better terms.
When I've heard that British nurses got only 1% after the whole Covid shitshow, it felt like UK government just gave them a middle finger. This is "de facto" a pay cut for the people who were fighting pandemic for almost 2 years!
I can tell you, if this was happening here in DK there would be riots on the streets.
The man's a legend. On my list of top 10 Id love to have a pint with
Love this guy -❤❤ 100% spot on!!
Eddie Dempsey and Mick Lynch telling it as it is! The media don’t know how to handle them it’s brilliant! 😂😂
Need people like these guys shutting the media and toads like widdecombe up!
Well done Eddie. Too many times the reporter/host of the show tries to talk you down which is plain RUDE!
Thank you for telling it as it is.
Well said Dempsey
There’s a limit
There is a LOT of wealth out there that needs to be returned
Well said🤟
Why are the majority of the british public so dead set against the unions? What he says makes perfect sense. The power of the press and the establishment is what keeps people from realising they're being screwed
Because the red top newspaper barons told them to be!
I'm not sure they are. We're told that, by the press. And you can hear some people for yourself when you're out and about, but how do we know the actual percentages, for and against. Also, unusually, this time around some of the tv media is actually quite favourable, and they're acknowledging that there is public support.
Because many working class people are more interested in what is happening in Love Island than what goes on in the real world.
They aren't dead set against unions. People care what happens in their workplace, and the workplaces of their families and friends. They care about being able to get transport, healthcare, education, etc. Union-busting managers staff hamper efforts for collective bargaining. Agency staff are dismissed if they try to organise. Tories, New Labour trying to win Tory voters, tabloids and media outlets striving for balance over accuracy shape it differently and make you think no one cares. People do care. It's their faith in getting change that's been damaged.
The same story for the past decades.
Worker: "What about a unio-"
Manager: "Your productivity dropped by 0.5% last week. Bye!"
*rinse repeat until workers come together outside the workplace*
Workers: "Union, we need representation."
Union: "Our members need better conditions."
Bad Employers: "Hmm. I could do, but let's pretend it's Bargain Hunt instead. You asked for a fair wage, but I won't be beaten, so how about I reduce their pay cut from 6% to 3% and they work more hours?"
Union: "Uh, no."
Bad Employers to Press: "It's unaffordable."
Bad Employers to Tories: "Ahem?"
Tories: "Militant unions are out of control. Clamp down now!"
Press to Union: "Some other industry are paid less than your members."
Union to Press: "They should be paid more."
Tories: "With what money tree?"
Union: "The profit."
Tories: "Profit isn't a bad thing."
Union: "I didn't say th-"
Tories: "This is all just militant unions propped up by Marxists."
Union: "Employer is refusing to budge. Tories are being Tories."
Workers: "What do we do? Do we strike?"
Union: "That's a last resort. There are several things that can be done ahead of considering strike action. Work to rule and such."
Workers: "Alright, let's try that."
Bad Employers: "..."
Union: "Still not working."
Workers: "What now?"
*repeat a few times*
Union: "Unfortunately they're unwilling to improve conditions."
Workers: "But we can't go on like this."
Union: "Before your workplace collapses, they need to see what it would be like. They need to understand that this is a serious issue. Do you want to accept their latest offer, or strike?"
Workers: "Their latest offer is unacceptable. Strike."
Service: *slows down*
Workers: "Support the strike!"
Public: *beep* *cheer* *tea*
Public: "I hope it gets fixed soon."
Press: "This is still going on with no end in sight."
Tories in "committee": "Who's to blame?"
Bad Employer: "The union." + *unfounded claims*
Union: "The employer." + *evidence*
Tories: "The union's to blame."
*continues in more industries*
Tories to Press: "Everyone's in the same boat. Things are really tough and we have to make difficult decisions."
*cut services, reduce quality of life, increase nihilism*
Public: "People should have good conditions but we're all in the same boat now. No point trying to change things, they don't care."
Workers: "Support the strike!"
Public: *beep* *cheer* *tea* "I can now only dream of things getting better for any of us."
Press to Public: "How much disruption are these strikes causing you?"
Public: "A lot. It's been going on too long. It needs fixing."
Bad Employers to Tories: "Ahem?"
Tories: "New anti-union laws on the way"
Workers to Union: "What now?"
Union: "They've made striking more difficult. We need to ballot again."
*ballot fails*
Workers: "We can't go on like this"
Bad Employers: "I'll hire some staff"
Bad Employers to Agency: "Give me some temp staff"
Bad Employers to employees: "We're reducing the size of this section and renaming the department. You can apply through agency."
Former employees, now agency staff: "wtf?"
*workplace continues operating with low conditions, high turnover of workers*
*continues for years*
*pandemic*
*energy crisis*
*tories keep trying to be tories*
Workers: "Fuck this."
Union: "Fuck this."
Public: "Fuck this."
Bad Employers: "This is great!"
Tories: "Getting trashed in the polls though..."
Bad Employers: "Not to worry, saturate the news with whatever you have available and they'll forget about it"
Tories: "The electorate aren't stupid."
Bad Employers: "... ... You had me going there for a minute!"
Tories: "Gotcha! Haha. Economy's fucked anyway, we'll throw the next couple to Labour and let them take the flack. Toodles for now!"
Yes Eddie you’re spot on 👍
All these companies need to go back to our own country like LNER
Same with water , energy which are essentials
Can't teII you how much it means listening to a man that isn't on the take!
By the people.For the people.
Top man. He has clearly outlined the reason why so many are peed off; wealth divide (and no talk of wealth tax).
Eddie and Mick are an inspiration, and give some hope to some real change in our broken country
This guy, Eddie Dempsey is one of the best leftwing leaders i have seen in a goodly while.
Excellent orator, great communicator, working class...love it!👍😉
Absolutely well said !!!!
I have been loving hearing from the union leaders.
Legends all of them
Mick lynch and Eddie Dempsey are a danger to the establishment, I love it.
This man is so far above anyone in parliament at the moment...Thank u Eddie Dempsey .
“They’re ‘avin a disco!” Ha ha
Yes! We need more people like Eddie Dempsey! Very well said, this country needs to wake up!
Tories keep telling us we don’t deserve extra money despite the huge profits of corporations. We work and earn profits for the corporates. It’s disgusting, they want us to argue between ourselves who deserves more ie nurses and rail staff wages while they continue to profit. We can’t let them carry on. Full transparency is needed and tax havens need to disappear.
This man is talking sense, he played a blinder on this channel talking with Mick Lynch recently and as an older citizen it is great to hear a London accent. The thing is the British public are now taking notice after finally being given impossible demands, on inflation, energy, public services and such. We are seeing interest rises to curb inflation. Raising interest rates will not calm down inflation if that inflation is not being caused by excessive consumer demand but by global economics. It will harm business but it is good for people who already have lots of money. The majority of working class UK consumers are at breaking point, they don't have £1000's saved for a rainy day but they do know that any Government money given to them will be borrowed resulting in more misery later on. The answers are under our feet, the North Sea and on the benches of Parliament. People of the UK. We may need to have a General Election sooner than you think and there are alternatives to a two party system.
Absolutely! Well said!
Several years ago I heard a multi millionaire warn those with excessive amounts of money that unless they shared their wealth, the people would come after them with pitchforks. He asked for fair wages, if people were paid a fair salary, they would instantly improve the economy by spending more....makes sense.
Sounds like a smart man and he's likely to be absolutely correct if this carries on.