“what a bunch of idiots. it is clear that you're all gullible enough to believe the propoganda that rm put around about unions being against things like use of machines etc, when these new machines are already being used! the fact is that the royal mail management have provoked this dispute by their aggressive stance towards frontline low level employees saying things like we're over paid and underworked when our wages barely cover the basic costs of living and they pay them selves huge bonuses. either educate yourself to the real facts surrounding this dispute or get off this message board and take your ill informed opinions to a discussion about some other issue you know nothing about”

“Whether the CWU is Marxist or not is beside the point. It is unfortunate that unions are necessary in the present day otherwise employers would have few checks on their activities.

Employers are employers to make money for themselves and, if they have any, their shareholders. They are not, in the main, charities and their ideals are not philanthropic.

As my father-in-law often said,;

"Every employee should be in a union, the secret was to choose one that was going to sell you down the river in the longest possible time"

And he was a docker .......”

“personally my post hasn't been affected, I'm still getting my bills! I think you should be grateful you have a job. Everyone wants maximum benefits for minimum effort these days... there are plenty people willing to work, afterall, how hard can sorting/delivering post be??”

“I'm not Mike Ford, Mr Logic.

Sorry to hear about Anne's husband's unfortunate medical ailments but what the hell has it got to do with this current postal dispute?

Is this day time TV?”

“So as usual the 'real' posties who do the legwork and deliver tonnes of post door to door each year are working, but the idiots who sit around lobbing a few bags around all day are on strike. Big deal - we all hate you and your job could be done in hlaf the time for a fraction of the cost by a machine - like in any other company/country. Get over yourselves and see that the Union are taking you all for a ride on the back of their expense accounts...”

“Yawn, whats with this strike thing, i havent had a missed delivery, if your going to strike do it properly, everyone out untill its sorted.”

“So says Pat,direct from Conservative Central Office,well done.”

“Pat,when you say the CWU is a Marxist Union,are you seriously suggesting that all the members of this Union are Marxist, I suggest to you that if you spoke to all their members,90% would not have a clue who Marx was,or what he stood for,this Trade Union,as are the rest is made up of the workers in that particular industry,if of course you meant those full time officials,each one of these is elected by secret ballot,those voting having read the programme of each would be official.
As regards your term Liebour, this present Tory Government is correctly accused by the real Tory front bench,of continually stealing,and implementing their policies,so if I were you I would not hold my breath on any change in the near future,as I see it the Great British public at the next general election will have the clear choice of new Government,Tory,or Tory.”

“Michael, Bath. A fair point, but nevertheless an issue which is not simply answered by suggesting I 'refuse' any future pay increase 'won' by the union.

As more or less alone (though I suspect becoming less so) in refusing to support this Marxist union I have to accept, good or bad (and they are not always good) the results of any future negotiations between the union and RM.

Furthermore, as a non union member I also run the potential danger of having no union representation should I come into any disagreement with RM, so my dropping out of the union is perhaps not so clear cut as maybe you like to think it is. But that is the price I pay for, as you say, my strong principles.

And yes, I could request to have my contribution stopped to the Liebour party, but that still leaves the small matter of the union itself, which I detest almost as much, and for the very reasons I have given in my two posts.”

“I didn't write the comment at 17:09, its another Anne Paul.”