RMT general secretary Mick Lynch speech to London consultants rally

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Комментарии • 266

  • @nickroach2791
    @nickroach2791 11 месяцев назад +21

    Absolutely legend of a man- so much common sense

  • @pippoplfc
    @pippoplfc Год назад +57

    Great speech, bringing hope to the country for the first time in years. Mick Lynch and people of his ilk should always be backed by the working classes.

    • @noelfleming3567
      @noelfleming3567 Год назад +1

      There isn't enough like mick lynch to stand up to bullies in government

  • @iskrajackal9049
    @iskrajackal9049 Год назад +35

    When medical consultants cheer to the rafters an ardent trade unionist passionately urging them to fight to defend their industry (the NHS) it is a sign of true change in Britain! So let's support all workers in their struggles against exploitation and defend all vital services against profiteering. If a service is important enough to be depended upon then it's important enough to be in public ownership and run on a not-for-profit basis.

  • @kevarsa
    @kevarsa Год назад +70

    Absolute hero of a man...go on Mick!! From one lynch to another 💪 big love here in Ireland 🙏

  • @alicebuckley1261
    @alicebuckley1261 Год назад +82

    I’ve been watching Mick Lynch from Ireland for a number of years.He is a tremendous advocate for truth and fairness.Politicians in England both Conservative and Labour need to listen and represent people with honesty and integrity.

    • @denzel270
      @denzel270 Год назад +2

      You're welcome to him if you want him?

    • @mairethompson2552
      @mairethompson2552 Год назад

      AND. HE'S. IRISH

    • @paulherlihy9290
      @paulherlihy9290 Год назад +2

      I believe his father was from Cork and his mother was from Armagh. There is a very strong Irish connection with Mick💚

    • @pauldoherty6413
      @pauldoherty6413 Год назад

      @@denzel270who would you rather have? Sunak and Starmer ffs

    • @genghisthegreat2034
      @genghisthegreat2034 Год назад

      Of course the Irish, Catholic background that formed his social conscience, and that valued education in his home, gets written out of the rightly indignant and lethally capable advocate that he is.

  • @josephbloggs2179
    @josephbloggs2179 Год назад +12

    Governments hate people like Mick because he talks the truth...Our society is screaming out for change...

  • @andrewmaccallum2367
    @andrewmaccallum2367 Год назад +18

    Go on yerself Mick, excellent as always 👏 👏👏
    Solidarity with all workers, and f**k the tories! ✊️

  • @RoyceMunday56
    @RoyceMunday56 Год назад +38

    It's always a joy to listen to Mick's clarity and wisdom when he speaks passionately about the rights of working people.
    Well done Mick, and well done BMA

  • @hilarybarker1386
    @hilarybarker1386 Год назад +35

    Brilliant speech! Telling it like it is and no prompt sheets needed! Thank you for giving us some hope in this corruptly governed country. ✊

  • @markwildphotography
    @markwildphotography Год назад +55

    Straight truth.

  • @stephenholmes1036
    @stephenholmes1036 11 месяцев назад +7

    Im a 30 year RMT man Mick is a real leader he like me comes from nothing.
    The establishment are terrified of him Lab, Con, LD and Green
    We need new politicians, real people who care

  • @SM-if7rm
    @SM-if7rm 5 месяцев назад +2

    Mick is a brilliant speaker and trade union leader. Solidarity to all workers who continually have to fight for justice! ✊

  • @lkyuvsad
    @lkyuvsad Год назад +26

    Good to see the middle class mobilising.
    I'm a senior software engineer and my salary has not tracked inflation. I'm paid less in real terms than I was in 2008, despite another 15 years of experience and a notionally more senior role. My peers tell me they are in the same position.
    Personally I'm still materially secure and I'd be comfortable with lower pay if it was a result of higher taxes being used to fund public sector salaries. But it's not- it's a result of an ever-increasing wealth transfer to the already exceptionally wealthy.
    A large chunk of my salary also now goes on private medical care. My son narrowly avoided facial paralysis and complete hearing loss because our underfunded NHS took a year to diagnose a problem that we eventually had to go private for, in the nick of time according to our surgeon. I also have Ehlers Danlos, for which there is very little care within the NHS, and that has also cost me four or five figures a year on private care since I was diagnosed.
    They came for the working class, they're coming for the middle class. We need to unite.

    • @Skylark_Jones
      @Skylark_Jones Год назад

      Great comment. I'd be very happy to pay more tax if I knew it was going on the most important services like the NHS: without good health and access to healthcare free at the point of use, we are nothing. Gary Stevenson, wealth economist and campaigner against wealth inequality said they're coming for the middle classes: your pay and your homes. Now you know what non-middle-class people have had to put up with for decades. It's so ironic. We must not allow this corrupt government to use its divide and rule tactics to pit us all against each other: its how they win.

    • @user-qx3gb8di7j
      @user-qx3gb8di7j 10 месяцев назад

      Don’t wait too long…….

  • @robertstraw9881
    @robertstraw9881 Год назад +49

    The best public speaker in the country right now.

  • @mikeenright8793
    @mikeenright8793 Год назад +7

    Brilliant!!!! What a brilliant speech thank you Mick.

  • @Draminos321
    @Draminos321 Год назад +42

    Outstanding speech by someone standing up for us all. A real working-class hero.

    • @Berlitz81
      @Berlitz81 10 месяцев назад

      Strike is the only answer,
      Everyone, including the Unions, the government, the opposition, the army, the entire medical profession, the over staffed civil service and the police should all go on an indefinite strike.
      No one to administer benefits, pensions etc. *GREAT*
      We could all lie in bed breaking wind all day, eating pork pies and sinking pints.
      Yes siree Bob, let's bankrupt the country and let anarchy run its course.
      Clever strategy, eh Einstein?

  • @jaynemacklyne1462
    @jaynemacklyne1462 Год назад +25

    Great speech, hope many get to hear it

  • @alansdorsetfossils4028
    @alansdorsetfossils4028 Год назад +49

    What an impressive speech. Why only 30 comments??? Mick Lynch is so right about all of this. Who would have thought he'd be invited to stand up in front of the BMA.

    • @grahamcook9289
      @grahamcook9289 Год назад

      He's an unrepentant 70s marxist throwback. He needs to be debanked and consigned to dustbin of history like marxism and all marxists.

  • @silondon9010
    @silondon9010 Год назад +7

    I wish he was the leader of the CWU and we wouldn't have been thrown the wolves 😢

  • @rowancrew2934
    @rowancrew2934 Год назад +47

    Good man.great speech Mick . COMETH THE HOUR COMETH THE MAN.

    • @rowancrew2934
      @rowancrew2934 Год назад +9

      @2aph0d_b33blebr0x what a screwed view you have, This industrial action is about the saving of jobs.

    • @ziptink1710
      @ziptink1710 Год назад

      @2aph0d_b33blebr0xboot meet licker

  • @XelaMa
    @XelaMa 6 месяцев назад +1

    This speech should be on the curriculum in all schools!! Never heard such an eloquent, infirmed, and decent & true speech in my (long) life!!!

  • @russellcoppack4742
    @russellcoppack4742 11 месяцев назад +4

    Regardless of whether you agree with his campaign and approach to negotiation, you cannot help to be blown away by Mick’s authentic, grounded intelligence and inspirational oratory. I’d love to go for a pint with him. A modern day Jimmy Reid. Oh to have a single MP who could generate this degree of passion and inspiration.

  • @sphughes01
    @sphughes01 Год назад +51

    This man is a legend. He has brilliant communication skills that are not taught by an expensive PR firm charging the earth. He is not like those rubbish MP's and the PM who stage manage every interview and photo opportunity. Rishi Sunak could never stand in front of a group of people and speak from the heart unless someone wrote him a speech. This guy can and why? because he is intelligent, honest and what he says makes perfect sense.

    • @noelfleming3567
      @noelfleming3567 Год назад

      Well said

    • @genghisthegreat2034
      @genghisthegreat2034 Год назад

      Yes, he learned at a dinner table with a Cork father and an Armagh mother, and both arrived in England with an Irish, Catholic education.

  • @patriciacollier128
    @patriciacollier128 11 месяцев назад +4

    Well said Mick! Solidarity ✊ with all workers

  • @r__b6095
    @r__b6095 Год назад +27

    I fucking love Mick and it's great to see him joining with the doctors

  • @revpadma
    @revpadma 10 месяцев назад +3

    Brought tears to my eyes ... tears of sadness for what has already been lost, for all the millions of people who are suffering poverty while a few grow obscenely rich, sadness for all our forebears who fought for democracy and peace ... and tears of hope that the change Mick speaks about can really happen because we need it NOW. God bless Mick Lynch and everyone who is standing up to these disgraceful thieving bullies.

  • @maryburke2680
    @maryburke2680 10 месяцев назад +3

    Good on you Mick you're for all workers. God bless you for what you do.❤

  • @Michael-gf7mh
    @Michael-gf7mh 11 месяцев назад +3

    Wow just watched again… powerful stuff! We need more people like Mick running the country! Give em hell mick!

  • @kevinfarrell523
    @kevinfarrell523 Год назад +5

    I am deeply in awe of Mr Lynch!

  • @raymonddick3119
    @raymonddick3119 Год назад +24

    as Mick said, who would have thought. We cannot lose our grip on society

  • @pauldoherty6413
    @pauldoherty6413 10 месяцев назад +2

    He always speaks sense, keep up the good fight Mick you legend ✊

  • @Gph0367
    @Gph0367 10 месяцев назад +1

    SOLIDARITY TO THE DOCTORS. YOU ARE ALL AMAZING✊❤

  • @dianap6264
    @dianap6264 Год назад +17

    Totally agree, if only the majority of the population could open their eyes to what's going on

    • @jmshrrsn
      @jmshrrsn Год назад +1

      So long as they’re glued to the legacy media - from the hamstrung BBC to the Establishment right wing press, they’ll never get to see speeches like this. That’s the problem at the heart of so many issues in this benighted country.

    • @ardane1956
      @ardane1956 Год назад

      Oh, I believe people Are waking up big time - with Tory corruption and cost of living impoverishment.

    • @user-qx3gb8di7j
      @user-qx3gb8di7j 10 месяцев назад

      And their ears…….

  • @jackmcgregor308
    @jackmcgregor308 Год назад +30

    We love you Mick, you always tell us the truth

  • @aleccap5946
    @aleccap5946 Год назад +16

    The labour leader should be demanding to know, why Mick is NOT on mainstream TV

  • @EMidMSO
    @EMidMSO Год назад +9

    A moment of sympathy for the next speaker? Follow that!!!!!

  • @user-qx3gb8di7j
    @user-qx3gb8di7j Год назад +3

    Well done, and well said Bro.Mick - I need you, you need me, - we are all inter-dependent,
    Solidarity to you, RMT, ASLEF, and all TU’s in disputes & on strike.
    You are spearheading the fight not just for yourselves, but for all decent working poor members of public.
    Don’t falter, you have assumed the mantle that used to belong to the NUM.
    Remember also, that though the Tories purport to be pro NHS, Churchill’s govt voted 21 times against it’s formation. Remember they are still Tories today, with the same ideology………

  • @mairethompson2552
    @mairethompson2552 Год назад +5

    Mick. For. Pm. A. BRILLIANT. Speech

  • @ghengis430
    @ghengis430 Год назад +17

    Really great speech, drawing people together. Keep fighting!

    • @blod141
      @blod141 Год назад

      He'll need to. This ain't the 1970s when we all thought about our colleagues and neighbours. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee Lynch.

    • @ghengis430
      @ghengis430 Год назад

      @@blod141 I suppose we could , given the amount of current strikes.

  • @davepb5798
    @davepb5798 Год назад +5

    Truth.

  • @ardane1956
    @ardane1956 Год назад +2

    We're at a truly watershed moment right now, when people are uniting across the country, across classes, industries and professions, to create a decent society.
    Please, lets see it through to the conclusion, get Labour in and then make them accountable for every decision until the rot is rooted out of our country and society.
    United We Stand ! RCN striker, myself.

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 Год назад

      The RCN did not meet the threshold for more strike action recently. Its members have hoisted the white flag in surrender. Yes, the threshold of fifty percent is outrageous and there should be online ballots but it is not difficult to post a letter. Lynch is right about transfer of wealth but it has been happening since 1979 by design. It is what neoliberalism set out to do and it has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams with the connivance of the voters, including most of those who identify as Labour given its capitulation to Thatcherism under Blair. This is not a watershed moment because neoliberalism is so embedded in UK society that it has a long way to go before anything changes, if ever. The Labour Party will copy Tory policy and nothing will change. I saw Corbyn give a similar speech to Lynch in Manchester Cathedral in 2015 and nothing changed despite the hope his rise engendered. Too few people care for anything to change.

  • @MrBurtonshaw
    @MrBurtonshaw Год назад +30

    Had the honour to meet a consultant who was organising my treatment for a health problem. He knew what I did for a living and was aware of my admiration of the Labour Movement and obviously the NHS. On my last visit, after the job, we found ourselves bantering about the conditions us 'workers' are having to suffer at the hands of the political wing of the very wealthy who currently rule via Parliament. We both chuckled at sitting in the same boat, a fantastic feeling of solidarity.

    • @user-qx3gb8di7j
      @user-qx3gb8di7j 10 месяцев назад

      We ARE in the same boat, but the social structure is exactly the same as it was on the Titanic…….

  • @PsychedelicGoo
    @PsychedelicGoo Год назад +5

    I think the term "working class" should simply mean anyone who has to work in order to pay the bills... which is most of us.

    • @petyrkowalski9887
      @petyrkowalski9887 9 месяцев назад +1

      I agree….or an an alternative… didnt go to private school.

  • @mickp222
    @mickp222 11 месяцев назад +1

    Well said Mick , Spot on.

  • @lindacurrie8817
    @lindacurrie8817 Год назад +3

    Brilliant speech Mick Never thought I would see citizens from all walks of life coming together as in lower working class to upper middle working class. Wonderful.
    We need to stand together. Not pit worker to worker against each other that is the Torie ideology as in scapegoat.
    Follow where the distribution of wealth goes and who too there lyes the humongous greed for the few. Latter greed has brought this country to its knees. Let's take them on and continue to fight
    Keep you nerve hold your nerve and use it. The use of the word nerve is from Sunak arrigant unelected PM.

    • @user-qx3gb8di7j
      @user-qx3gb8di7j 10 месяцев назад

      Good you said so, but you sound like a snob……..

  • @cheesepuff455
    @cheesepuff455 Год назад +6

    💚💚💚

  • @topsyfulwell
    @topsyfulwell Год назад +3

    I'm Australian and fucking love Mick too.

  • @bjgranger5834
    @bjgranger5834 Год назад +1

    Just watch this speech just don't understand british people just blind to it all
    Your are an amazing man Mick lynch please keep up the good work and truth

  • @davehoy2104
    @davehoy2104 Год назад +10

    Mick, you are a national hero and if only we had you as our PM!!!

  • @johnlander3164
    @johnlander3164 Год назад +11

    Excellent speaker 🔊 👏

  • @noeldunford4955
    @noeldunford4955 Год назад +4

    Spot on mick lynch we need to stop feeding the richest

  • @seanmacleod1724
    @seanmacleod1724 Год назад +11

    Well said sir.

  • @joetritone3944
    @joetritone3944 Год назад +4

    Arise Sir Michael Lynch.But would he accept it.

    • @lindacurrie8817
      @lindacurrie8817 Год назад

      Would he ever be offered it? Should be Mick certainly deserve it.

  • @paulheaton154
    @paulheaton154 Год назад +2

    Well said

  • @federicoprice2687
    @federicoprice2687 2 месяца назад

    ❤ brilliant speech

  • @philipburke1708
    @philipburke1708 Год назад +2

    A genuine orator, clear-spoken, engaging and inspiring. I wish Sir Keir Stamer was as genuine as Mick Lynch. People are crying out for a change from the sickening corruption and inept management of thisTory government.

  • @tonysuley4306
    @tonysuley4306 Месяц назад

    You can clearly see that Mick wasn't reading this from a pre script because he spoke from the heart.Well done my son.

  • @rodneycooperLMSCoach
    @rodneycooperLMSCoach Год назад +10

    Everything this man says would result if implemented a progressive and successful country and every citizen living in the knowledge they would be living in a fair country. Can't say any more.

    • @user-qx3gb8di7j
      @user-qx3gb8di7j 10 месяцев назад +1

      Mick Lynch for PM

    • @rodneycooperLMSCoach
      @rodneycooperLMSCoach 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@user-qx3gb8di7j If only. Just imagine if Mick teamed up with Rory Stewart you could get the best for the country from both ends of the political spectrum.

    • @user-qx3gb8di7j
      @user-qx3gb8di7j 10 месяцев назад

      If I could take you out for a beer 🍻 to reinforce those sentiments, I would do so gladly. Keep the faith, comrade, and influence as many as you can to vote “wisely” when our chance comes to punish the Tories…….

    • @rodneycooperLMSCoach
      @rodneycooperLMSCoach 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@user-qx3gb8di7j Well thankyou and I would do likewise. The Tories won't get many seats next time but it's going to be a coalition of some kind. That's going to be the problem.

    • @user-qx3gb8di7j
      @user-qx3gb8di7j 10 месяцев назад

      @@rodneycooperLMSCoach good on you Rodney - until we get Proportional Representation, we can’t achieve much.
      Huge, radical changes are clearly needed, - can you see that happening with the guy holding the Ming vase?

  • @roderickbrown97
    @roderickbrown97 Год назад +1

    Brilliant truth

  • @mrsmiggins9465
    @mrsmiggins9465 8 месяцев назад +1

    Wow ❤

  • @Michael-gf7mh
    @Michael-gf7mh 11 месяцев назад +1

    Mick Lynch for PM! The hero this country needs!!!

  • @Muzikman127
    @Muzikman127 Год назад +6

    No punches pulled, love it. Refreshing to hear someone speak with such honesty and candour

  • @fabriziomua2631
    @fabriziomua2631 Год назад +4

    Mick for PM!!!! NOW!!!

  • @urmixbyaagkool1863
    @urmixbyaagkool1863 Год назад +23

    Mick would be the best PM - excellent

  • @FeckArseIndustries
    @FeckArseIndustries Год назад +1

    Legend. Next Labour prime minister for me👍

  • @4952dob
    @4952dob Год назад +6

    Utterly outstanding as always from Mick Lynch. How he does this without notes is just incredible.

  • @suew-g4992
    @suew-g4992 Год назад +7

    Wonderful speech from the man who speaks truth and fights every day for what is good in our society. Thank you Mick

  • @debbiemanley2867
    @debbiemanley2867 Год назад +7

    I have such respect for this man. Everything he says is so obvious to me. This is the sort of passion which the leader of the opposition should have, but clearly doesn't. 👏👏👏👏

  • @sabahtally
    @sabahtally Год назад +1

    Totally agree. that what i said in the past but no one listens to me

  • @train4905
    @train4905 Год назад +1

    Awsome😊

  • @marcellowoodford4048
    @marcellowoodford4048 7 месяцев назад +1

    Please Mick Lynch and Jeremy Corbyn BACK as Our Leaders! x M

  • @desmondhull5778
    @desmondhull5778 Год назад +1

    This man should be running the country.Working class people would have a happier life.

  • @markcole5187
    @markcole5187 10 месяцев назад +1

    This man for Prime Minister.

  • @ChrisHUTTON-zc4br
    @ChrisHUTTON-zc4br Год назад

    Wow! Powerful, deep & so right. Its fight now or never. Its fight for fairness & equity or return to Dickensian days of destitution for the majority, obscene wealth for the few. Thats what it is all about.

  • @maxinehowells3535
    @maxinehowells3535 2 месяца назад

    great speech

  • @robertmann9286
    @robertmann9286 Год назад +3

    Mick Lynch should be prime minister

  • @philipliptrot9860
    @philipliptrot9860 Год назад +3

    Mick Lynch for PM

  • @ewoodrailway
    @ewoodrailway Год назад +1

    Another great speech. Doesn’t mention the words billionaire, thief, corruption. Amazing

    • @AndyThompson1606
      @AndyThompson1606 Год назад +1

      Corruption 5min in and we'll said

    • @ewoodrailway
      @ewoodrailway Год назад

      @@AndyThompson1606 missed that, not to worry at least you got the gist

  • @junky360
    @junky360 Год назад +15

    Mick for PM

  • @spotable2
    @spotable2 Год назад +1

    We need to find a way to protect ourselfs from business "men" women and shareholders.

  • @peterwhitaker4038
    @peterwhitaker4038 Год назад +1

    you have to listen to Mick don't Ya!

  • @TashaBhm
    @TashaBhm Год назад +1

  • @neillscan
    @neillscan Год назад +5

    Brings a tear to my eye with proudness. Gwan Mick you're the best

  • @williamorchard16
    @williamorchard16 Год назад +15

    Inspirational, Mick

  • @AJGossTrains
    @AJGossTrains Год назад

    👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @Sharon-777
    @Sharon-777 Месяц назад

    Why isn't this man running for prime minister hes awesome the uk needs him

  • @abigailweir7287
    @abigailweir7287 Год назад +8

    Amazing and all true.

  • @plsm5882
    @plsm5882 Год назад +1

    Lech Walesa 2.0. Mick Lynch for PM!

  • @leemace9638
    @leemace9638 Год назад +8

    Mick ur a legend 👍

  • @tinceor4665
    @tinceor4665 Год назад +9

    Mick Lynch hit that nail right on the head. He's right and I wish the tories would go now. I don't want another 18 months of these non elected incompetents calling the shots. Good man Mick, keep up the good fight, you're keeping the hope and the will alive.

  • @doyoumind.atall.stopspying5572

    I agree

  • @safeyah9729
    @safeyah9729 10 месяцев назад +1

    Mick lynch is such a G

  • @michaeltagg492
    @michaeltagg492 Год назад

    Nailed it

  • @danskkr
    @danskkr Год назад +6

    If the bbc itv etc actually let people listen to this guy we might be few inches closer to a fair society. Instead, they write him off as a 'firebrand'.

    • @lindacurrie8817
      @lindacurrie8817 Год назад +1

      The same applies to SKY news worse than BBC when it comes to being biased

    • @user-qx3gb8di7j
      @user-qx3gb8di7j 10 месяцев назад

      And a “TU Baron”
      Truth is, “establishment” are shit scared of him…….
      And they should be

  • @tomhermens7698
    @tomhermens7698 Год назад

    He is Sooooo right.

  • @nigelandrews5617
    @nigelandrews5617 Год назад

    👍👏👏👏👏👏

  • @stanwilson8089
    @stanwilson8089 10 месяцев назад +1

    A general strike would be too disruptive,but planned Boycotts would work. I take my hat off to you Mick.

  • @DavidHerbert-gm4bf
    @DavidHerbert-gm4bf Год назад

    Brilliant

  • @suzyqualcast6269
    @suzyqualcast6269 Год назад

    Keep On Keeping On Boss.
    Even the first time out orig Skins was proper working class - Stand up, (representative), Joe 'Awkins, coal sack upon th shoulder

  • @gerardcrilly3598
    @gerardcrilly3598 10 месяцев назад +1

    I agree with Mick that the tories are corrupt and rotten and need replaced.. But what’s the alternative?? I can’t help but feel that a Labour government would prove themselves to be no different. I think Mick should run for government. That’s the only answer.