RMT leader says Truss is out to crush the unions!

 

Liz Truss 

People hold varying views about the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. She's either one of the "dimmest-seeming" people in politics, or the next 'Iron Lady'.

Peter Oborne, the highly respected Conservative author and journalist, thinks that Truss is "horrifically out of her depth" and that she used a recent trip to Russia, to stage a number of Margaret Thatcher-style, photo opportunities. When up against the formidable Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, Truss didn't seem to know the difference between the Baltic and the Black Sea and she said that Britain didn't recognise Russian sovereignty over Voronezh and Rostov, which are two regions within Russia. She was then rebuked by the Foreign Office, when she said that she was in favour of British citizens going to fight the Russians in the Ukraine. The Foreign Office had to issue an urgent statement calling on people not to go. Two British citizens are now under sentence of death for fighting in the Ukraine and could be shot.

Liz Truss, is a member of the Free Enterprise group of Conservatives who wrote to book 'Britannia Unchained'. In their book, the group described British worker's as feckless and "among the worst idlers in the world " They described Britain as a country that avoided risk and rewarded laziness. The authors of the book wrote: "The average Singaporean works two hours and 20 minutes a day longer than the average Brit." The group praised China for its rigorous educational standards and its intense spirit of competition and Dubai, is lauded for its lack of regulations.

Polly Toynbee, the Guardian journalist, said that many of the views expressed in the book, seem to have been derived from conversations with "industrious London cabbies."

In the leadership race to become the next leader of the Conservative Party and consequently the next British Prime Minister, Truss has said that she's in favour of regional pay boards to set the rates of pay for public sector employees. She seems to think that rates of pay should reflect the differences in the cost of living across the regions. Less pay if you live in the north and more pay if you live in the south, for doing the same identical jobs. She also announced £30 billion in tax cuts that critics say will fuel inflation, increase borrowing, and drive interest rates up to 7%. One thing we can be certain of is that her tax cuts are likely to benefit the highest earners. The tax cuts would give a bare 15% to the bottom half of earners. The top half gain by 85%, while those at the very top, get 28% of it.

Trade Union leader, Mick Lynch, of the RMT, thinks that Truss is out to crush the trades unions and to make strikes illegal in essential services. He says that if she goes down that road it will provoke a general strike which is now illegal Britain along with secondary action.