As I write this, news is emerging across the country of further illegal strikes against the use of foreign contractors.
Clearly any industrial action which is contrary to the law of the land is wrong and I have no hesitation in condemning it.
But this is a crisis – and make no mistake, for it is now a crisis – which has is a direct result of Gordon Brown’s grossly misleading promise of “British jobs for British workers.”
By saying what he did, the Prime Minister deliberately raised expectations which he knew he would never be able to deliver.
Indeed, what Gordon Brown was advocating was every bit as illegal as the current strikes.
But yet again, it was headlines that he was after and he has certainly got plenty of these.
Unfortunately for him, they are definitely not of the kind he was hoping for.
Clearly any industrial action which is contrary to the law of the land is wrong and I have no hesitation in condemning it.
But this is a crisis – and make no mistake, for it is now a crisis – which has is a direct result of Gordon Brown’s grossly misleading promise of “British jobs for British workers.”
By saying what he did, the Prime Minister deliberately raised expectations which he knew he would never be able to deliver.
Indeed, what Gordon Brown was advocating was every bit as illegal as the current strikes.
But yet again, it was headlines that he was after and he has certainly got plenty of these.
Unfortunately for him, they are definitely not of the kind he was hoping for.
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