RMT chief 'optimistic' about possible Labour government

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Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the RMT union, today said he is "optimistic" that a Labour government would deliver a better working situation.
He said he hasn't "met a government minister since January", adding that employers involved in the disputes have also stopped talking to staff.
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@terracewalker8919 Год назад

Public services are just that, they provide a stable base for society to grow and prosper. They must be brought back into public ownership. At the moment we can see money being creamed off to mostly foreign CEOs and shareholders holders while the services are becoming a national disgrace.

@supernoodles91 Год назад

Couldn't agree more!

@garygalt4146 Год назад

Well said. Maggie stole what belonged to us.

@ChrisPatrick-q6k Год назад

Highest paid rail workers in the world.

@enigma7791 Год назад

Glad someone is! As an ex member of the Labour Party I now wouldn’t vote as none of them represent anything I want sorting.

@anshumanjaiswal5787 Год назад

Greens?

@MrRight-hn5pq Год назад

Reform UK 👍

@ChrisPatrick-q6k 6 месяцев назад

The Free Money Club?

@kiriakoz Год назад

This was almost close to balanced for Sophy Ridge's standards. Wow, the tables are turning.

@timwoodger7896 Год назад

Maybe they have realised that Mick has a history and a skill in showing up their silly games for what they are and have just given up trying?

@jake751 Год назад

She's leaving and being replaced with right wing labour member trever philips.

@thejigantics2641 Год назад

But Mick goes on to tell us all the things Starmer isn’t doing

@DavidGetling Год назад

Sadly, we would just be swapping one wunch of complete bankers for another.

@LukaszStolarczuk Год назад

Well done Sophy! finally some interview on SKYNEWS without a bias. Always good to hear from Mick. I'm wondering why he is not our PM....hmm

@karlwilliams2703 Год назад

😂😂😂😂

@martinchantrill8922 Год назад

God help us all of he ever is

@Talboy-d7g Год назад

If we had people like Mick As a leader for ordinary working people More chance winng On this moment can't spot the difference between the two party's Street wise TAL.....

@T5Zplayer Год назад

He represents very few actual working people. He is a hater and his politics is driven by spite.

@sydnorth5868 Год назад

Don't get me wrong, I actually quite like Mick Lynch. As a union leader he comes across as far more articulate and reasoned than many before him. However, there is no way that he would win a General Election as leader of a political party (whether that be Labour or otherwise). The British electorate tend to gravitate to the middle ground (2019 was an exception, but that was entirely about Brexit). That is why Starmer is polling so well. Don't forget, only four Labour leaders have EVER won a general election.

@Talboy-d7g Год назад

@@sydnorth5868 yes it true I meant he good for working class To be honest the labour would be scared of him ☕

@mrnice7570 Год назад

There is no labour party any longer, just two tories

@keithrobert5117 Год назад

He's an intelligent person. But he still thinks politics is about Westminster. When Brexit has, clearly, proved power has moved, is moving and will to continue to move away from London.

@grayssportsalmanac85 Год назад

Since when can anybody trust a word Keir Starmer says? ..Fool me once...

@DavidManifield Год назад

Country has been fooled by the Tories, so time for them to go, if that means Labour in power then that's what the present government Deserves

@leetaylor5350 Год назад

I think he is deluded to think Kier Starmer is going to magically improve Britian

@jjefferyworboys8138 Год назад

Agreed and even Labour now realise there isn't a magic money tree !

@Noel-ji8nm Год назад

@@jjefferyworboys8138 The magic money tree exists when it comes to Ukraine.

@MrRight-hn5pq Год назад

@@Noel-ji8nmdon't forget the illegal hotel occupiers plenty of money spent there.

@leemace9638 Год назад

I could listen to Mick for hours 👍🇦🇺

@markdavidson5379 Год назад

How sad

@jake751 Год назад

Me too. So intelligent and speaks the truth.

@bobbydazzle1937 Год назад

Jeez

@karlwilliams2703 Год назад

😴😴😴😴

@italifacts1461 Год назад

_I imagine a lot of people will be thinking which party they distrust the least._

@user-bu9nb8wr6e Год назад

We need a political party that is 100% for the people of this country. We need politicians who put what's best for the country first, not what's good for their donors or themselves first. We have a lot of the wrong type of people in parliament, and they need to be removed. Any politician who is an honest politician would want it to be a crime to lie to the public if an MP. Any MP who wouldn't sign up to that needs removing from office. If they were honest themselves, they would have nothing to fear.

@LEE-ty8vq Год назад

There is party's like that but the majority snub them before educating themselves.

@ralphmaver1489 Год назад

We need a completely new system. Parliament has to be demolished.

@zoltan-zq3xe Год назад

@@LEE-ty8vq Reform UK?

@pauleaton3578 Год назад

Well done Mick. Keep it up.

@slynskey333 Год назад

Mick lynch in the morning is a great cure 👌

@fredscratchet1355 Год назад

If Mick Lynch thinks a Labour government will solve all our problems then he really is away with the fairies 😅

@captainshakenbake5101 Год назад

Well he thinks Brexit was a great idea so I’d say he’s not the best judge of things 🙄

@jonathanfell688 Год назад

Absolute support. It's utterly ridiculous not to be negotiating. Unless they see the RMT as Thatcher did the Miners.

@ChrisPatrick-q6k Год назад

Highest paid rail workers of the G20.

@lesmarsden2058 Год назад

So refreshing to hear someone speak with honesty and openness on a politics show. Mick made a very telling point about Labour needing to put some clear red water between themselves and the Tories. I no longer know what, if anything, the Labour Party stands for, other than to be slightly better than the Tories. Labour seem to be firmly superglued to sitting on the fence over most issues, which is totally unacceptable to their traditional core voters like myself. Unless Starmer starts showing some boldness and clear principles, Labour will be in for some disappointments at a general election.

@ObsidianMeridian Год назад

Well said Mick. Glad to hear that Labour have offered to repeal the anti-union laws. A better deal for everyone is what will grow our economy.

@Syndra-iz3in Год назад

🤣

@grayssportsalmanac85 Год назад

One slight problem. Starmer is a compulsive liar.

@lord.of.veracity Год назад

Starmer is a poundland tory who has reversed every pledge hes ever made . i hate tories but even sunak has more sense than starmer

@richardextall2002 Год назад

Can't wait for Cultural Marxism to be rolled out across the country.

@ObsidianMeridian Год назад

@@grayssportsalmanac85 I agree, he and his party do seem to be a dodgey bet. I suppose the proof of their actions in the first term will be what we will inevitable judge them on.

@XxTheAwokenOnexX Год назад

Labour will hold a second Brexit referendum, and Uk, and Europe will be back playing happy families again 🙄

@T5Zplayer Год назад

Half of Liebour voters voted for Brexit so how is that going to work

@mw01908 Год назад

OH God!

@stephenjon3502 Год назад

That would be fantastic as it’s been a complete cock up. Only the full on cult members still think it’s a good idea.

@timwoodger7896 Год назад

The honesty of this man is such a breath of fresh air in amongst the verbal pollution we get force feed by the media and politicians alike👍

@T5Zplayer Год назад

he is a liar and a hypocrite

@quentinjalapeno1344 Год назад

@@T5Zplayer 😂 Do explain

@T5Zplayer Год назад

@@quentinjalapeno1344 These strikes are political nothing to do with pay and conditions. I watched the extreme left like lynch in the 70s destroy our industries and he gives two fingers to the people of this country. Hope that helps, I tried not to use words that are too big.

@stephenjon3502 Год назад

⁠@@T5ZplayerThe RMT aren’t affiliated to Labour anymore. How is that political?

@T5Zplayer Год назад

@@stephenjon3502 TUC filth they are

@Fraz725 Год назад

Mick Lynch is always worth listening to.

@MrBurtonshaw Год назад

Good on him.

@lynnhickinbotham3784 Год назад

Mick is a legend not only standing up for rail workers but for all working class

@karlwilliams2703 Год назад

😂😂😂😂

@Mike_5 Год назад

Station Announcement 'The Train at Platform 1 will be delayed waiting for a Labour Government'

@macjim Год назад

Red Tories.

@danjames4086 Год назад

I really think Labour need to take Mick Lynch on as a special anti-bullshit advisor. They could fit their MPs with earpieces, and have him talking common sense into their ears in interviews.

@earnestequivocation6250 Год назад

Don’t agree with his views on Brexit but he’s far more competent articulate intelligent and decent that ANY Brexitory Minister we’ve had inflicted upon us.

@archiemcberry7102 Год назад

Labour will get us back in the EU. The UK will be saved by EU regulations and guidance. Time for the UK to get serious about a further move to socialsim.

@jake751 Год назад

Yes we need a new party 🥳

@simonaragon1992 Год назад

Labour are Tory!

@LEE-ty8vq Год назад

@@simonaragon1992 Then vote for other partys that are snubbed and suppressed by all mainstream media. There is more partys than Labor/ Torys and Green.

@davidty2006 Год назад

Not back... But for sure closer. Like holding hands distance.

@hazelwray4184 Год назад

EU rules require €14 billion in spending cuts next year. EU policy is the privatisation/marketisation of Europe's railways.

@hazelwray4184 Год назад

He's a skilled communicator, but that isn't a winning formula/strategy.

@amazoniaamazonia7225 Год назад

Wish there were more people like Mick Lynch.

@bensherlock6237 Год назад

Micks right we just go round and round in circles 97-23 nothings changed it’s the same I won’t go out and vote next year because I can’t tell the difference sad really now I did in 2017 as I new the difference with may v corbyn I voted labour as at that stage there was difference not now

@lololol112 Год назад

legend

@iantanner7579 Год назад

It would be great for the country, but somehow I don't think anything will change, - most of the think tanks the Tories are using are already very Left leaning...

@MaestroPlaymaker Год назад

We stand with Mick!

@killip88 Год назад

Sophie ridge might as well be wearing a badge saying 'I Love Tories'

@nigelbenn4642 Год назад

Every man and his dog is optimistic about a Labour government. Has to be better than this crap.

@Noel-ji8nm Год назад

Better for who?

@jake751 Год назад

Speak for yourself and not others and certainly not my dog. 250 thousand people have left the red tory starmer party.

@jake751 Год назад

@@Noel-ji8nm exactly 💯% certainly won't be voting for starmer.

@lubobys7139 Год назад

council houses for the masses

@albertbell7120 Год назад

He means our friends the boat people who will also take his members jobs … bet Mick ain’t lost a penny during all these disputes and will have a nice golden handshake when he retires unlike his members

@dukemaximus1639 Год назад

This guy would be a better Labour leader than the current one.

@andymrkipling Год назад

Anti union law = Actually provides minimum service levels so people can get to work.

@stephenjon3502 Год назад

What happens if staff go sick on a strike day?

@seamuspadraigsanders431 Год назад

Another Iraq, and a chance for Labour to buy 5th and 6th houses at our expense.

@johnnorth1961 Год назад

He along with his colleagues speak not just for members of the RMT but for every worker no matter what union they belong to, unions in Ireland pander to the companies and government instead of representing their members, I wish Mick would come to Ireland and represent us 👍

@kriskalpa Год назад

I support keeping ticket office staff, but I also think that the govt aren't going to give pay rises of more than 5%. Take what they offered, it's not as though they said no. The govt will just ignore the RMT from now on. The public don't support greed.

@Mr29Kevin Год назад

Wages up, taxes up, prices up, back to square one for the lucky. Homeless, unemployed will get the worse but more of em. Well done Lynchy

@willjennings7191 Год назад

If I were an aide to some coalition, I would think that the prosocial function of 'Independence' washes ashore as legal concept new to the United Kingdom. As opposed to realms, a resource model composed of many worlds in the electrical grid might distribute a system of charges in a cyclic counter for billing. In essence, the Prime Minister could vary the price of electricity by street address, and then use the revenues to pay the workers.

@ralphmaver1489 Год назад

Independence from what? Hat does billing have to do with the 'PM'?

@ralphmaver1489 Год назад

There is more to the country than the electric grid.

@barneypaws4883 Год назад

A shame Keir Starmer wasn't on Sky Sunday morning as he was on the BBC as more people could have heard what he had to say.

@ChrisPatrick-q6k Год назад

They treat the railways like their own special club. The highest paid rail workers in the world.

@emmahammond4338 Год назад

Labour and green but NO Starmer

@kriskalpa Год назад

I think Mick would like Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the LP.

@kriskalpa Год назад

So Mick wants a socialist society. Venezuela style?

@wonkygustav4457 Год назад

Good for him but I have no confidence in starmer

@robertmann9286 Год назад

Mick Lynch should be prime minister

@richardextall2002 Год назад

What about Blaire's illegal war in Iraq?

@danielcollinson4456 Год назад

He's more optimistic than me then! 😢

@mrnice7570 Год назад

Press make me sick these days

@Mark-oy9lw Год назад

That must be why they’ve paid for it

@johnwall8862 Год назад

Another leaving the tory sinking ship

@C.Steamer Год назад

To think labour is any different is extremely naive. I can't believe someone as smart as Mick Lunch actually thinks labour is any different. Just the other wing of the establishment, that's all they are.

@silondon9010 Год назад

The Royal Mail workers were sold out by their union, terrible agreement with brutal workloads

@jake751 Год назад

🥱🥱

@thethirdman9493 Год назад

It was a terrible deal for delivery staff, that is true 👍

@albertbell7120 Год назад

The miners were sold out the shipyard lads sold out the only winner is the union leaders Vote Reform 🇬🇧

@digitalT83 Год назад

ha all working from the same hymn sheet, the illusion of choice

@johnstephenson757 Год назад

Labour are finished

@JohnJohnson-by9dp Год назад

Should be talking about a REFORM GOVERNMENT that is for the people

@stephenjon3502 Год назад

Don’t be silly. Brexit party 2.0

@michaelrose891 Год назад

Then we will be in deep poopoo

@marekburniak1997 Год назад

We ARE in deep poopoo for last decade 😅

@michaelrose891 Год назад

it will be a lot deeper

@user-ki6ui9jj1p Год назад

Micks a class act ‘look at the state of me sophy’ 🤣

@karlwilliams2703 Год назад

😂😂😂😂😂

@jackart011 Год назад

Mike Lynch for PM

@roycampbell5605 Год назад

Just remember it's these people who fund the Liebour party

@jameslynch2611 Год назад

No it isn’t - the RMT haven’t been affiliated with the Labour Party since 2004

@normandunford5747 Год назад

@@Borderman47the BBC!!!

@Noel-ji8nm Год назад

@@Borderman47 The same donors who fund the Tories now fund Labour

@roycampbell5605 Год назад

@@Borderman47 the tories are funded by all of us they will steal your money any way they can

@jake751 Год назад

Mick lynch works for RMT Union and does not fund the Labour Party whatsoever. Unite Union with sharon Graham funds the Labour party. KEEP UP

@Androgen321 Год назад

He’s after Starmer’s job 😮

@CM-jo6vn Год назад

Common Mick Lynch W

@jjefferyworboys8138 Год назад

During the current dispute what has he actually achieved other than increasing his own profile ? The reality is when it's eventually settled his members will never recover the wages they have lost. Even Labour have worked out there isn't a magic money tree !

@Noel-ji8nm Год назад

Taxing the rich and borrowing is the magic money tree.

@bereal6590 Год назад

@bigstu2821 correct, if people don't stand up they're walked over, the tories would have people in the workhouse on bread and water

@jake751 Год назад

Absolute twaddle.

@margaret3606 Год назад

What has he and the workers he represents achieved? Since June 22 he has prevented thousands of people being made redundant and prevented ticket office closures. He has stopped people's terms and conditions from being eroded. He is stopping the rail companies from making thousands redundant stopping driverless trains and cutting down on the catering service. He has won free travel for TfL 5,800 cleaners and won free travel for 5,000 approx sub contracted cleaners at TfL plus 800 cleaners including those working at MTR Crossrail and on London overground have the same rights. Cleaners are being employed directly now instead of being subcontracted. He is stopping the government from taking risks with passengers safety by trying to keep trains staffed and ticket offices open.

@michaelhoward5333 Год назад

Labour in Government would do a Kristallnacht event on Jewish community in London.

@jake751 Год назад

Why?

@ATHLDN Год назад

cut the crap

@kammy205 Год назад

Can we have Mick for PM?

@abhi739 Год назад

uk govt shud focus on bringing down recession if wage increase isnt possible

@archieneill2773 Год назад

What happens if Labour win the Election and RMT can’t reach agreement with the newly elected government? Are we back into the same litany of Industrial action we’ve suffered for the last year or more? The public purse holds the same amount of money no matter which party’s in power. Or does he expect the government to raise taxes and borrow money to satisfy their greed? Mick Lynch is the last person I would want to shake hands with. More like I would punch him on the nose for the disruption and damage he has wrought on the populace and country. The Railways won’t recover from the damages his Marxist Union has delivered.

@matthewwalker2281 Год назад

Mick Lynch for PM!!

@normanstratford9329 Год назад

Labour is more content with taxing people for climate change. Their priority is have less carbon, but more pollution with energy farms and taxing people for carbon. This hit the poor more than the rich as Sunak can still afford to heat his swimming pool.

@Phil-bc2sd Год назад

That should tell people all they need to know labour will give in to their paymasters the train drivers wages will go over £70k and we will all have to pay increase ticket prices and this will not only happen with the railways but many other public services A VOTE FOR LABOUR IS A VOTE FOR SEVERE PRICE INCREASES ON THE WORKING CLASS .

@jake751 Год назад

First of all mick lynch does not represent train drivers. Jeeeeeeeeeez

@silondon9010 Год назад

ASLEF IS THE TRAIN DRIVERS UNION , DO SOME REASERCH

@stephenjon3502 Год назад

Caps lock Karen.

@davegallagher4084 Год назад

I'm a huge fan of Mick's and I love his plain-speaking style and the crystal clarity of his message delivery, but I think he displays a political naïveté that doesn't suit him when he talks about what Starmer's "got to do." Starmer's got ONE JOB at the moment and that's to win power for Labour at the next general election, which is what his Realpolitik is laser-focussed on. If he were to start saying all the things Mick suggests, (a) the Tory Client Media would slaughter him for it, and (b) the people who will actually decide the outcome of that election (ie swing voters in the key marginals, many of whom believe what they read in the pages of the Sun and the Daily Mail) might be scared off and you'd likely begin to see a narrowing of the gap in the polls, which would threaten to make our well-overdue delivery from Tory clutches less certain. That will be what Labour's private polling is telling them, or else Starmer would be saying something different. Never mind what the Labour leader SAYS, look at what the Labour Party DOES when they win power.

@tommaxwell7643 Год назад

Mick Lynch top man.

@TheBigears1 Год назад

Sophie is moving from this regular Sunday show and it is being taken over by Trevor Philips. So that is yet another viewer that Sky has lost on a Sunday morning. Philips is the sort of presenter that send people to sleep within the first sentence! Mick Lynch is just amazing.

@jake751 Год назад

Trevor Phillips was thrown out of the Labour party for racism and starmer let him back in. I refuse to watch a racist red tory like Phillips.