...might be my new favourite person.
https://twitter.com/mettlesome_teri/status/1539168
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I do get pretty tired of journalists making blatant accusations then whining that they are only repeating what they've heard when called on it.
I wish Lynch had answered, yes, I am a Marxist, so what? when asked though. Still, it's been most uplifting seeing him take interviewer after interviewer apart.
I put this in the FAT thread on politics but it can go here too.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/22/t
his-rail-strike-is-also-a-battle-for-public-opinion-and-no-10-is-fighting-dirty
I wish Lynch had answered, yes, I am a Marxist, so what? when asked though.
Even though he's said he isn't?
Yes, I wish he was.
Hah!
I'd pay good money to watch that.
Brilliant that Lynch used both interviews to make the important point about the government's role in creating this problem
Its the thing the estbalishment (including the media) fear the most
being mocked.
I like the way he's so cool and they just get more and more comically angry because he's not playing the game.
Its so much more potent than anger
It so is. Humour is often the best weapon of the oppressed.
I like the way he's so cool and they just get more and more comically angry because he's not playing the game.
Absolutely this. Let them get rattled while he sticks to the same story. He's an elected representative representing his members. He's doing his job. And doing a fine job too.
Brilliant that Lynch used both interviews to make the important point about the government's role in creating this problemYes - he's not blaming the train companies, he makes common cause with them
Yup! Great tactic. And industrial disputes are all about tactics.
The Spectator wades in...
In a somewhat surprising fashion...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-praise-of-mick-lynch