Just Mick Lynch terrorising Tory MPs and dismantling the anti-strike bill in a Select Committee
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- Somebody thought it would be a good idea for Tories on the Transport Select Committee to ask Mick Lynch what he thinks of their plans to limit the right to strike.
Not sure any of the Tories in the room thought it was a good idea.
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Do you keep cutting this half way through so it repeats the same points over and over again ?
tories: lower than vermin
Privatisation was always a con. We're spending as a country more in subsidies to rail firms in the 2020s than we ever did when it was British Rail and we've, arguably, got a more expensive service and in recent times a much worse one.
Well yeh, of course it's MORE expensive now than then!! 👍🏾
Now, we've also gotta carry the weight of paying off, the Billionaire class, who are now sitting on top of the corrupt political class & the management/administration class...
It's worse than that. Most experts reckon we're spending four times in real terms what we spent on the railways pre privatisation.
Mick amuses me. He's just a guy who understands his job and what he's talking about and that alone is enough to embarrass the current government. Pretty dire indictment of politics today.
Anti strike bill 🤔🤔😡 these Nazis need to go to jail
I love how terrified they are asking him questions because they know he will make them look as stupid as they are. Love him.
Supporting Mick Lynch and ALL the UK striker's ✊ Enough is Enough
Lying Tories OUT 🤬
I stand with Mick Lynch and we ain't moving an inch !
Good man! I'm just an old fart, but I'm with you, as, I am sure, are the general public. I've never seen such an erosion of our liberties than under this government. Please run for P.M.! 👍
@@skysurferuk Good man Sky I am with you on this. By the way, this old fart knows there is no such thing as "Just an old fart"Good man Sky. Together we can beat them!
@@skysurferuk They really aren't ask someone in the tourist industry how they feel about Mick.
@@denzel270 😂😂😂😂😂😂there's always one
So is the general public when they can't get a train because of strikes.
Mick Lynch continues to outclass Conservative politicians
its not a particularly difficult challenge though it is?
He outclasses most politicians but he does not play into the Tories hands (and the media). He really is a breath of fresh air.
Yep he is upper class but Tories think the reverse
But WHY are they still there?
Conservatives have NO class.
They had one job.... decided to rob is instead. These conservatives should be in front of a judge and jury.
Mick is so relaxed and confident in his answers, completely unfazed in telling the Tories where they are going wrong.
The Conservatives are not the ones going wrong and along with Mick, not the ones losing pay.
It always looks easy when you tell the truth
He has the facts and tell them like it is.
someone please wipe that smirk off his face.
@@denzel270 have you seen the faces of Hancock, Raab, Patel, Braverman and Sunak? They are Dictionary definitions of smug smirks
Mick really shows up UK MP's. He out argues them every time without breaking a sweat.
Fact: Tories have spent more money (by funnelling tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money to private train operators for every day there was a strike) than it would have taken if they met the strikers' demands. Which goes on to show, dragging this process along was always a political choice, and not an economic one. Same can be said of the way they're not even negotiating with junior doctors. They simple don't care if patients come to harm or doctors leave the profession or move to other countries.
Absolutely. After years of watching where money flows and under what conditions, a conclusion might be reached that a wrecked country is simply easier to loot. Mick Lynch and more like him understand the issues, both currently and historically, and are making it clear just who the wrecking crew is.
I'll let you in on a little secret; no Tory policy is based on sound economic thinking. Not even one.
They are fine with that though, cause the money goes to their rich mates and not the workers.
They have to avoid fair wages for workers at all costs to keep their ‘superiority’.
@@jonsmith5058 True. Money represents Status to some, so plundering public funds, whilst gleefully withholding them for the proles is a big thrill for them.
£30MILLION A DAY
Could you imagine how good the country could be if we had politicians as smart as Mick
I honestly stand with Mick and Unions in general but the fact he STILL thinks Brexit was a good idea blows my mind considering its directly affect his union!
he has integrity
They are plenty smart but they don't play for Labour, they work for Capital.
Mick is a legend and would make the greatest PM and turn this country around, but instead we have rich, arrogant, out of touch Tories stealing from the poor to feed the rich..
@@stefanc4520 there was a left wing case for leaving the EU. Unfortunately all the bad actors were in charge during and after
This government is truly creating a dystopian state.
Love how Lynch tells them their policies are unconservative, brilliant!
I stand with Mick Lynch ✊🏾
Amen
I stand with HM The King.
@Stephen Baxter Chuck da t'urd, wouldn't let you anywhere near him. You're just a face in his crowd, and a mere pleb.
@@stephenbaxter3369 What's that got to do with anything? This government aren't working in the best interests of the Royal Family or Britain... Just themselves
I too stand with His Royal Mickesty the Lynchking
Enforced employment - Arbeit Macht Frei ... as they used to say in Germany.
Imagine having someone this sensible in Government
Ain’t going to happen. He’s too intelligent.
The media would never allow it
Instead we have people like James Cleverly.
Well there is Rees-Mogg for a start.
Too much of an imaginative leap for me, I’m afraid.
Fully support Mick Lynch
He's just so quick thinking. Literally runs rings round the lot of them.
Mick for prime minister what a great country this would be
Mick tells the truth, unlike the tories
Sadly unlike both sides of the isle.
If only this man was the labour leader.
What a great idea.
But was he born in a toolbox? Was his father a pebble dashed semi? Can he do senisble centrist things forensically?
You would be behind in the polls.
They's strom in!
@@BENTWOONEZERO no chance
Mick Lynch for Prime Minister.
His direct,intelligent informed approach is refreshing unlike these vacuous MPs.
Titus a true people’s man
Not another Brexiteer, please.
@@hovefactually7505 The complete opposite,but I do admire knowledge of a situation and honesty.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@hovefactually7505 huh wtf?😂😂
Mick Lynch is one of the most articulate men I've heard for a long time. The RMT are very fortunate to have him.
But I am an age that remembered what happened with Triumph motorcycles and Leyland ,they had some slick union negotiators
in their Unions ,but like many other British unions they priced themselves out of a job .At the time I worked in the biggest foundry in Europe in Sheffield as a Engineers Union rep. and the people above kept saying "it"s O.K. we will win" and the company sold to an American business and the main man came to the factory ,stood on some steps and told us straight - "are you going back or shall I
close the place down"? and the place is now Meadowhall Shopping Center ?. My eldest son worked at Keeton"s steel in Sheffield ,similar story ,but the longest strike in history which lasted over 7 years ,they closed that place too ! . Railway tickets are already at a silly price ,so you can bet ,in a few years our Railways will be so much scrap metal . Will Mick Lynch still be revered - then ?.
@@yorkiegilly4355maybe you should blame the bourgeosie and not the striking workers? You can see that they’ll do anything to avoid workers owning their own workplaces!
@@yorkiegilly4355also there’s no way that rail can just be replaced by other modes! People travel rail to avoid the hassle and pollution other forms bring. And no one’s gonna hop on a plane, like the US’s local flights as its not economical. The companies have artificially inflated train prices!
Tories are just the absolute worst.
Mick lynch is a national treasure Intelligent articulate taking on this greed is good conservative ideology cheers mick from one of the silent majority 🤷♂️
The Tories simply have now no understanding of the concept 'service'. Public service, political service, civil service, national health.... it's all a foreign language to them. Their own self-service perhaps, but that is another word for 'greed'.
Yeah they’re not the conservatives they’re the SELFservatives
The unions are greedy.
Yep, they put a price on everything but a value on nothing.
Same with Labour. Look beyond the two party system
The tories have destroyed our country.
I stand with Mick Lynch 💯
Crazy. As a Central European in London I’m very concerned that the trajectory of the Tories seems to be aligned with the pursuit of authoritarianism of the GOP in the US. What are you doing?
Trying to cling on to power, even going so far as to disenfranchise people. Every other word out of their mouth is "freedom" and "freedom of speech" yet they've done their utmost to curb freedoms and silence any opposition to their way of thinking.
Holding onto the tail of a tiger, and spinning rapidly . . . you cool? 😎
@@beachcomber2008 i dunno it's spinning wildly down here
The Democrats are waging coups and wars and inditing people for arguing for peace (10 year jail threat) . What are you doing?
I’m outside the UK looking on on everything going on and it’s baffling…it’s like a drama show it’s madness , you swear it was being screen played by HBO
Mick Lynch really is a delight to watch in full flow. Hats off to you sir. 👏 Keep doing what you're doing!
I stand with Mick Lynch ✊️✊️
But he supported Brexit and still thinks it is a good idea!!!!!
@@davidforbes2795That’s not his field of expertise, so his opinion on that doesn’t matter.
@@davidforbes2795 Why does that matter?
@Magic Steve It's just a "squirrel".
@Magic Steve Because brexit is the greatest act of self-harm this country has committed and has had and will have a devastating effect on the lives of working people. That's why it matters!!!
The torys don't want any rebellion from the "serfs "!!!!!
What a f*cking man, you could see and hear the fear of the Tory MPs asking questions knowing they were about to be handed their asses on a plate. 😂
Mick Lynch is always excellent value. He knows so much more than the politicians do.
Along with my cat.
He's a moron determined to ruin the country. Rail workers already earn more than they are worth
😂😂😂😂
Yeah, how to destroy the economy so a few greedy well paid rail workers can have their way.
“I’m sure Guildford and Maidenhead will still get a service” 😂😂😂 Mr lynch I salute you
Yes, so am I sure...No doubt at all.
Another example of novel industrial action comes from Japan...where the bus drivers all still went to work and did their shifts...but refused to charge any passengers.
I saw a Mick Lynch interview last year he explained the government made that practice illegal years ago
That's already against the law over here sadly
@@olliegrant205 when they make striking illegal, its time to break some laws frankly.
same applies to the protest bill
@@att6484 it's time to break some windows......
Why are our politicians so thick that Mick has to explain the basic principles?
A baboon wearing a blue rosette could get elected in a safe Tory seat.
They’re paid not to understand
They are hoping he will tire out with all the questioning
They’re educated to be corrupt.
Many of them exist inside little bubbles of privilege and have never struggled a day in their lives.
Each time I watch a select committee meeting I am nearly always struck by how unintelligent and incompetent the tory MPs are.
Not sure any of them would have lasted long in any of the private sector organisations I have worked for.
It's as though they're children, just fucking around with things.
Yes, it's quite eye opening.
Correct
Which is a delicious irony considering how much they lionise the private sector. But after being an MP they can’t get jobs outside of dinner speeches, financial lobbying, and other such jobs which just require talking at fancy meals rather than office work
They hop from place to place, never lasting long anywhere, but once you're at a certain level you stay there regardless of incompetence.
Right now tory MPs & activists will be considering how to frame Mr Lynch with accusations of fraud, arson, drink driving or child abuse... Why? Because they are desperate. Power to Mick😊
Michael Mouse; Ain't that the truth.
I'd vote for Mick!👍
Everyone in the country should watch this
Ross Davison; Everyone in the country should take time out now and again to watch Select Committees, but most would rather watch pap served up by the Beeb etc and take no notice of what's happening (then a lot of them vote Tory or don't bother 🤷)
Sadly, you are correct.
Mick Lynch 🤩🙌🤩🙌
This guy should be prime minister… he has that rare quality of common sense.
I used to be in the RMT and I have to say we wouldn't be in the race to the bottom if more Unions were like the RMT.
I'll say something else that would have The Daily Mail and the less than average Tory MP spitting in their Tea and calling me an enemy of the Nation or whatever; Banning Industrial action NEVER stopped Industrial action. It actually makes it more likely, less predictable and potentially more damaging and even violent to have legislation that denies the right to withdraw Labour. As Mick Lynch suggested in this committee, people can get very creative when faced with legal obstacles to Industrial action.
I remember the flying pickets 🙂
@@cdean2789 Yes, not 'Only You', a wide repertoire!
Mick Lynch is my hero
I don't understand why they don't try to keep him away from them as much as possible
Every time he's on the screen he makes the government look like children
Would love to see Smugg Rees-Mogg effortlessly dismantled by Mick Lynch. Rees-Mogg doesn't have the cohona's for that though, far too lily livered and cowardly.
Rees Mogg mentions very often the word snowflakes he is very much a snowflake and would stand no chance be it verbal or knowledge with Mick.
Mick would enjoy a game of English dictionary with him.
@@lindacurrie8817 Absolutely. A measure of Rees-Mogg was his crowing over getting one of the longest words in the Oxford English Dictionary into Hansard. Cannot recall the word but it went something like floxynoxycillification or something equally nonsensical. The guy who pushed for Brexit only to repatriate his hedge fund into Europe 😂. Yet some still refuse to believe what a self-serving hypocrite he is.
Mick Lynch has more integrity in his little finger than the whole of the Tory party has !
He earns more money, but no one is bothered about that
@@johnou.k.3780 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Do your homework and check out the second and third “jobs” that MPs on both sides are doing. Many serving vested interests too.
@@Andyreally good luck to them, that’s what you lefties don’t like people with money, stop benefits for those who can work
@@johnou.k.3780 than who?
@@johnou.k.3780. So tell us exactly how much he earns, o wise one.
50:00 The committee want the unions to tell them how to make union suppressing legislation work. What a cheek!.
Head master takeing the slow learners .
A very smart minded man. If only he were in charge of the country right now, maybe we'd actually get somewhere.
Not a single decent point made against Mick. Scandalous proposal, won't work, can't work. Silly to boot.
On top of the intellect, extent of knowledge and relaxed confidence of this man, I think I also sincerely admire his humility. Always putting the focus on the ideas, the people involved and what is right. As much of a man of the people as you can get. I feel like history will look back kindly on the legacy he is creating here.
Christ, imagine him instead of Sir Kierth.
Imagine him instead of PM Sunak.
How could you not love it,it’s has mick educating the railroads,Enough is Enough 👍👍
These politicians should do a weeks work on the trains or in the NHS etc. I worked in the NHS, when Hunt was minister, invited him just to do one12hr shift. 4hrs A&E, 4hrs in Theatre & 4hrs on ambulances. Coward replied, thanks for your letter & thanks for your service! Tw*t!
Mum O; A week? More like a year, minimum, with no access to their old bank accounts or rich friends. Jermey *unt, the current Chancellor (sickening isn't it)
I bet the tories sitting on that committee absolutely hate mick lynch……..brilliant😂 this guy is an absolute legend there is nobody he can’t run rings around😂
I stand with Mick Lynch 👊
Mick is a class act, end of !
Man Of The Year contender.💪🏼❤
Stick with it brother, the country is at a watershed moment. Your stance is giving heart to others who are in a similar struggle.
If mendacious Boris was still at the helm he would have invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill when he sent the army to subdue the Welsh miners.
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
Charles de Gaulle
The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.
James Bovard
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
A very eloquent and knowledgeable speaker
Agree with you. Mick is the man with many years of experience and yet he has to endure this onslaught of Torie questions from MPs that could not lace his shoes.
Mick has to school them every time but they never listen he knows Tories are looking for openings to destroy unions not work with them.
The anti-strike and anti-protest bills are fucking wild, the fact that they're even being considered is a dystopian prospect. How can you get away with something like that? It's unbelievably authoritarian.
Their doing it, not considering it.
Brexit showed that politicians don't have to convince the nation, they just have to convince a few right wing journalists who will gladly beat the drum for years, driving the narrative ignoring reality. Whether it's brexit, protest rights, personal freedom, trans rights, climate denialism etc.
See, if you hadn't voted to Leave we could the government in front of the ECJ. But you lot thought to know better! And the UKSC is worthless and toothless.
Well they’ve gotten away with murder,robbery so this is a piece of cake to them. We could stop all this shit they come up with if we all wanted to. But that won’t happen because everyone will just walk around shuffling there feet moaning.they can and will do anything they want because we let them!
Then we all strike.
The hitman. 😂
The insanity of the Tories laid bare by Mr Lynch !!!
Tory anti strike laws should be reversed if Labour forms a government but it will not happen, of course. Just like Blair did not reverse them 1997- 2010. Weak unions are key to the neoliberal project precisely to keep wages down so the rich can prosper at the expense of the workers. Yet even if they were reversed in some parallel universe there is so little solidarity in many sectors of the UK economy and many unions are so poorly led that it would be unlikely to make much difference to wages and conditions of service.
80s Music; It's more concerning that there is little solidarity between people (except for our 'betters' ofc). Instead there is more division than ever and it works, just how the Tories and the rest of the Establishment have manipulated it - for centuries, not just the past 44 years. Only people, en masse, can make a difference by standing up for each other so, probably won't happen in my lifetime but that's no excuse not to try and keep trying.
@@secondtimearound2539 I have believed in solidarity for most of my 53 years but I see no point any more in that it is like pushing water uphill and those that the left wants to help often do not want that support, instead choosing to believe the lies and propaganda of the right via (anti) social media and the right wing press. The problems do go beyond the last forty three years without doubt but the pernicious effects of neoliberalism as a tool to widen and entrench inequality in the interests of the rich are the result of a systematic policy that is an ideological crusade to wipe out any alternative political positions that do not accord with its precepts. Plurality of thought is the enemy of neoliberalism- it is just as dogmatic as adherence to communism was in the twentieth century. The workers have been sold out by the Labour Party, most of the unions and each other. Thatcher converted Labour to neoliberalism and described 'new' Labour as her greatest achievement. We are living in the dystopian future the left predicted in the 1980s- the tragedy is that she was right in her claim about Labour.
Since when was it like this under blair why are you bringing blair into this argument .this is the tory guv .labour said they would reverse in fact if they were in now then all this shit wouldn't be happening anyway
Sir mick , always stand your ground ❤
Eloquent, challenging, sensible, realistic, measured, impressive. Commands respect.
Some guy oor Mick. Knows his stuff n runs rings round the lot of them.
Good old sensible Mick!
If Mick Lynch had an RP accent he'd be Prime Minister by now
Go on Micky lad. FT Tories
👍👍👍
P O LEFTY TAWT
@@johnou.k.3780 300+ ranting comments on this channel alone. Get outside and find a hobby Johno, the weather's getting warmer
@@Jonbombs get a job , like decent people, not bloody striking like this waster wants everyone to do
@@johnou.k.3780 gammon
As a youngster in the 1980s I was naive in my understanding of unions and democracy and my own experience of unions and membership wasn't entirely positive. Now, and being the same age as Mick, I'm grateful for the education. He's a clear communicator and a bit of a hero. Just wish he hadn't supported the Brexit disaster though.
Free movement from the European Union was a wetdream for big business and the oil 🛢 for the Gig Economy
it wasn't your fault, we were all brainwashed at the time!
@@silondon9010 dont get me wrong, the EU was a capitalist economic union. but free travel and other benefits that were bestowed upon us by the EU were valuable things to have.
Free movement would make strike action pointless, as there would be a ready supply of people to replace the strikers.
I don't see how his position on brexit has any bearing on what he says on this subject. Mick Lynch wasn't responsible for the absolute horror show that was the referendum or the subsequent c0ck-up by government of all the details of taking us out. You might just as well say "I'd support Mick Lynch if only he wasn't bald."
That bloke is sharp
"Uncle Mick"...as on the ball as ever!
The UK has some of the most talented and intelligent people on the planet, yet, not one of them sit in government 🤦♂️
Rite honourable mick lynch 100%
Absolutely brilliant- they all had their mouths open- thinking he's hit everything on the head- what are we doing 😅
If only we had someone half as articulate and switched on as Mick Lynch. Our government is an embarrassment, both nationally and internationally.
Tories doing the blame thing and then punishing people for standing up to the incompetence and corruption
Man of last year, this year and any other year ✊
Yes. All stand for Sir Lynch.
Mugs
@@johnou.k.3780 Salty tears 😂😂😂
Yes and lets have SAFE staffing levels in the NHS and on the ambulances, all the time.
I could listen to Mick Lynch all day, such an intelligent man.
I hope somone's painting a little blue rosette under Micks car window (like the ww2 pilots) each time he kicks a Tory butt into touch,
Mick lynch knows his stuff.
He seems to bring an energy that can only be followed by those surrounding him, leadership skills abound.
I wouldn’t talk to the MP’s as this only gives them ideas on how to alter their proposed law.
I absolutely stand with Mick and his colleagues.
Bugger me Brother Lynch is very good.
Working class hero. A voice for workers is very much required and Mick and others carry that torch. Wonderful to watch Mick in action against the heinous powers that be.
RISE RISE RISE 🤟🏾🇬🇧💪🏽
So calm and never stuck for words a joy to watch, wish he was the leader of the Labour Party
Managers need union representation too - they also need protection from this madness!
(Assuming they don't already have representation)
It is incorrect to assume that Unions are always necessary.
When working people want to be treated fairly, history suggests that unions are absolutely necessary*
I've been very lucky in my career in that I have worked for some good companies, and decent managers/owners - even so, I would support union representation for all levels of workers because I think it can be beneficial in good times, and in bad (if done properly)
I am disabled. Dont use me as a poltical excuse to crush a union.
Solidarity✊🏻
Mick Lynch is an absolute hero, if only he was leader of the labour party instead of Starmer the country would be on the right track (pardon the pun).
SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKERS, DOWN WITH THE FASCISTS ✊
Watching Mick pointing out the obvious* made my day. *apart from the elephant dung.
Given the fact that P&O this week found out they will suffer no consequences whatsoever after their literal breaking of the law. Even after all the promises the likes of Schapps and Bojo made - be under no doubt, this bill will pass
John Clark; Yes, that was disgraceful but not unexpected. Shows the lack of care thse criminals have for our country and its people.
Love Mick Lynch, make him president after getting rid of the royals
Superb 👏👍
Basically we'll see you in court tory government