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Old Aug 12, 2005, 12:00 pm   #11 (permalink) (top)
Nono
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I presume you were not a traveler stuck in the airport.
Yeah I knew somebody would make a remark like that. (As it happens I'll crossing The Pond on Sunday and will be plenty pissed if I get held up, as people invariably are when Number One gets inconvenienced.)

Maybe you're right that it's tactically stupid, i.e. that it 'angers the public'.
But what would be tactically clever? What would win the public over? Nothing, of course, because worker bargaining power has been so whittled down that withdrawal of labour is about all that's left when it comes to making a point to Boss Hog.


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