EU Elections
Posted on June 4, 2009
Filed Under General
So, on Tuesday I was in London and coming out of Kings Cross station, I encountered a number of people handing out leaflets, blocking the forecourt like pins on a Plinko board. They were asking commuters not to vote for the BNP, which is sensible enough, but I was curious why they were all wearing RMT jackets. Why should London Underground workers be telling commuters who to vote for?
Then on Wednesday, we got some leaflets through the door and I found out that the head of the RMT, Bob Crow, is campaigning with the No2EU party. Ding! So he’s selfishly competing for the anti-Europe vote as opposed to altruistically warning about the dangers of electing racists who exaggerate. (The leaflet stack had one from the BNP claiming that the main parties want to “give 80 million Muslim Turks the right to swamp Britain”. A) There are 72 to 75 million Turks and B) I doubt all of them want to come over here.)
But is that really kosher? Having your members, who work for a public body, go out and picket on behalf of their shop steward? Shame the elections aren’t next week – they could have handed out the leaflets during their planned strike instead and saved themselves a day of holiday.
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