BritinAfrica......George Galloway goes on about the miners, the steelworkers and the printers who were hit by Maggie. Now I am old enough to remember when Harold Wilson was PM and he levied so many taxes on the business side of things that he proudly stated he would squeeze them till you could hear the pips squeak. Then you had the above Unions turning up at 10 Downing Street laying down policy and having what the press labeled tea and sandwiches meetings, but they also got what they wanted.
And of course there is also no mention of the Old boys networks, and the hundreds of years worth of deals done on a personal level between the barons of big business and those in power, where the the "fat cats" always seem to get what
they want.
It's no different, it's just that you seem to think that the wage earners living in "two up two down should be squeezed, and the blue collar workers, thinking that those who live in landed country estates driving around in their "Rollers" should be paying their fair share to those who actually make their money for them.
Big business is not set up as a charity just to provide subsistence living for those who actually do the hard graft, it is about big profits for the owners and shareholders who at some stage almost certainly came by their money and privileged positions as a result of the work done by the blue collar workers.
All the workers want is a fair share of the spoils, because with the coming of education for the masses, they have learned that the Worker/employer relationship is in fact a symbiotic one, where neither side can succeed without the other, and workers are not so stupid as not to realise this. The days of uneducated workers who couldn't write their names let alone understand the Stock market, are long gone and anyone with a bit of nous can see where the money goes.
A classic example being Warren Buffett one of the wealthiest men in the world who stated "I'm paying a lower Tax rate than my secretary" There were numerous attempts at discrediting this story by those with vested interests, however he stated it again this year after his tax rate was raised.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secretary-taxes/index.html
Although he is an American, the same is true in England where almost all of the wealthy who are able to set up Tax evasion schemes and hire high priced tax accountants, pay far less in the pound than those who work for them on PAYE.
All I can say is that anyone who derides unions has never had to reallyraise a sweat or risk their lives to
earn their living.