On Aug 20, 9:19*am, John B wrote:
On Aug 20, 9:08 am, MIG wrote:

Tim Parker sacked, RMT accepts almost the same offer it rejected
before. Coincidence, I'm sure...

http://www.johnband.org/blog/2008/08...piracy-theory/

So Tim Parker was there doing his job for TfL, and then the RMT hired
Bob Crow to bash TfL?

Eh? I'm suggesting that the RMT might have agreed to call off the Tube
Lines strike despite no significant improvement in pay offer, on the
condition that Boris sacked Parker from TfL.

I understood that, but the implication was that the initiative was
from the RMT, rather than Tim Parker being hired in a blaze of
publicity to bash the unions.

Maybe it was a slightly more complicated discussion on the lines of
BC: "This idea of publicly intending to bash us is making us nervous
and to mistrust every deal. This isn't helping London is it?" BJ:
"Good point; I'd like to reconsider my dismissive attitude and talk to
you directly instead of via my hit man."