Are the trade unions about to save Britain?

Today's Telegraph on how the UK trade union movement could save the UK from decline. The only way this would be possible is to begin some all out attacks on the bankers and elites who profit from the destruction of the wealth of the UK.
The levels of inequality in the UK are unprecedented, as is the growth in the wealth and assets of the richest 0.5% Britain is in terminal decline, and the Unions may know this how they combat this is another issue.

Part of the article:


In the demonology of public life, trade union leaders can claim a lofty rank. Where Ancient Greece had the Cyclops and the Gorgon for monsters, post-war Britain possessed an array of flat-cap giants named Arthur or Vic or Reg, with the power to twist the country to their will.
Derek Robinson, otherwise known as the British Leyland scourge, Red Robbo, would curse the plight of his successors. With union membership down by half in 30 years, the rump of 300 delegates attending the annual congress are gathered this week not at the seaside, as is their wont, but – for the first time since 1902 – at the TUC’s London base. Those who once ruled Britannia cannot now command the price of a whelk supper.
Sic transit gloria. In this post-titanic age, the union barons, like the feudal barons before them, are anachronisms shuffling into history, or so their enemies hope. The recession has, however, offered hope to cannier TUC operators aware that erstwhile critics have found more obnoxious hate figures.
The Vickers Commission, in recommending that the retail function of banks be ring-fenced from the investment wing, offered a reminder of the risk still posed by bankers whose folly helped bring the country to the brink of ruin. A study from the Institute of Fiscal Studies, published simultaneously, gives a warning that George Osborne’s austerity measures will cut families’ living standards by an average of 10 per cent over three years. The less well off will be worst hit, while the richest will lose just 4 per cent of income as a result of tax and benefit changes. And that’s before any alteration to the 50p tax rate that the Chancellor seems set on scrapping.
Rest at the telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8757600/Are-the-trade-unions-about-to-save-Britain.html

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