On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:27:30 +0100
Tony Polson wrote:
The same woman had the great wisdom to know who to stand up to, and who
to humour. She chose her battles well.

True, but I suspect she would have done something about the RMT by now even
if was only behind the scenes manouvering.

She knew enough not even to attempt to privatise the railways, for
example. That was left to the weak leader who succeeded her, and who
gave in to the rampant free marketeers in his own party.

Yes, the tories did go through a rather unfortunate privitise everything
we own phase. Pity labour seemed hell bent on continuing the tradition.

B2003