Mick Lynch's time is up

[steveseagull]

I don't actually think his time is going to be up for a long while.

I get a massive buzz off Big Mick Lynch high energy.

So I thought he deserves a post on here.

 

[tim]

He may be suffering from terminal Galloway Hatitis.

 

[steveseagull]

He may be suffering from terminal Galloway Hatitis.

I don't know. I am a big fan of the hat.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I don't actually think his time is going to be up for a long while.

I get a massive buzz off Big Mick Lynch high energy.

So I thought he deserves a post on here.

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[NoXion]

I'm quite fond of his appearances on TV. For some reason the media lapdogs love to try and go for him, but he just ends up making them look like huge fannies in the process. The country needs more people like him.

As the proud owner of a cowboy hat (good for keeping the sun off, btw), I don't feel the need to comment on his choices of headgear.

 

[steveseagull]

Offering to roll his sleeves up and kick the fuck out of Grant Shapps.

I can go with this message

 

[steveseagull]

Disclaimer: I met him at Durham Miners and had a chat with him for a bit. Hence the Mick fanboy thing.

 

[steveseagull]

Fan man actually. I am 53.

 

[two sheds]

young whippet of a thing

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I don't actually think his time is going to be up for a long while.

I get a massive buzz off Big Mick Lynch high energy.

So I thought he deserves a post on here.

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Definitely deserves his own thread. Nice one Stevie.

Every time I hear him I like him more.
Straightforward presentation of complex ideas is a real skill and he does it unbelievably well. Down to earth. Working class. Bullshit free. Proper trade unionist: member focussed. Sticks it to posh Tories and schools them. Working class men like him doing that really gets under their skin.

I would say ‘hats off’ to him but that fucking hat though…

 

[Smokeandsteam]

This should be required reading.

Lynch “Working people, who may not even call themselves working class, have got to find a way to organise. The unions have got to go back to basics and show workers how to do it, show them that it’s no good just being upset or pissed off. You’ve got to say, ‘I’m going to turn that into an organisation with a set of demands and a way to fight for them and get to the table.’ Because most people don’t know how to get a pay rise in this country. They’re not in a company where they can say, ‘We are at the table with you as equals.’ Because there’s no union, there’s no table, and there’s no forum.”

“unions have got to go where the people are. We’ve got to go into working-class communities”

Mick Lynch: ‘It’s No Good Being Pissed Off – We Need Organisation’

Tribune sits down with the RMT's Mick Lynch to discuss the national rail strike, his viral television appearances – and how workers can come together to topple Britain's super-rich elite.

tribunemag.co.uk

 

[Dom Traynor]

He may be suffering from terminal Galloway Hatitis.

Tbh the hat is the only decent thing about Galloway, Mick's hat is sound.

 

[wow]

Mick Lynch is an absolute G

 

[krtek a houby]

Random info, he used to holiday in Ireland as a kid, according to RTE interview some weeks back

If he irks the establishment, and inspires people more power to him

 

[bellaozzydog]

Mick Lynch is an absolute G

Eddie Dempsey will politely explain reasons why the union is taking strike action but also ask you “where’s your tool”

 

[steveseagull]

This is a great interview with Iain Dale. For all Dale's faults, he always does good and fair interviews with union leaders

 

[steveseagull]

Edited: Double post

 

[Doctor Carrot]

This interview is really worth a listen.

 

[magneze]

Interviewed for the Guardian. Cogent, as ever:

Mick Lynch on strikes and Britain’s crisis – Politics Weekly UK

The Bank of England is predicting a recession, while energy bills are soaring and parts of the country could be brought to a standstill again by strikes. John Harris is joined by the RMT’s Mick Lynch and Miatta Fahnbulleh of the New Economics Foundation to talk about how to tackle this social...

www.theguardian.com

 

[William of Walworth]

I cab't for the life of me see any obvious date! on that Guardian link -- how up-to-date is it?

 

[ruffneck23]

I cab't for the life of me see any obvious date! on that Guardian link -- how up-to-date is it?

Wed 10 Aug 2022 05.00 BST

 

[platinumsage]

It’s funny how some people in the public eye can’t resist speaking outside the scope of their professional role and areas of expertise:

 

[The39thStep]

It’s funny how some people in the public eye can’t resist speaking outside the scope of their professional role and areas of expertise:

Especially if you disagree with them

 

[TopCat]

It’s funny how some people in the public eye can’t resist speaking outside the scope of their professional role and areas of expertise:

I think he is offering a considered view, a rare one in the deluge of propaganda.

 

[platinumsage]

I think he is offering a considered view, a rare one in the deluge of propaganda.

Why though? Should we seek his considered views on Israel, Love Island and the Mar-a-Lago raid too?

 

[The39thStep]

Why though? Should we seek his considered views on Israel, Love Island and the Mar-a-Lago raid too?

He’s the sort of bloke I’d listen to on just about anything tbh . He puts his points across in a calm and thoughtful manner that you can engage with imo .
I don’t have to agree with everything he says and neither do you however the idea that somehow he’s left his designated lane because he’s not speaking about railways ( which if you’ve followed his activity will come as no surprise ) is patronising nonsense . Funnily enough his trade Union RMT have a policy on Ukraine and on other issues as well . Nobody played the ‘shut up Mick ‘ card when he said he was a Connolly supporter or when he talks about the need to build a working class movement .

Dunno if you have read the interview itself but if you have the terrain is ground that has been argued on here as well .

 

[RD2003]

There was a time when political/union activists had views on a whole range of subjects, usually aligned with the political current they adhered to. I wasn't aware it had ended.

 

[Karl Masks]

I think he is offering a considered view, a rare one in the deluge of propaganda.

Has he considered that this is putin propaganda?

 

[platinumsage]

I suppose it is revealing about his political currents, his China whataboutery in that article is quite something: Salam Hussein and slaves in Leicester.

 

[TopCat]

I admire him and his delivery. I love the RMT. I think the indignation expressed here at his lack of adherence to gung ho capitalist driven war just make you look like dogs.