Now I know why Thatcher disliked unions

I CAN’T say I ever thought much of Maggie Thatcher, but I am starting to understand her dislike of unions.

One Irish union leader whimpered the other day that his members were not responsible for the mess but were being made to suffer. With a 5% or 6% drop in income? About 250,000 productive workers who were also not the cause of this shambles have suffered cuts of 70%- 80% by losing their jobs.

Get out of cloud-cuckoo union land and into the real world. The bankers, with the roaring incompetence, if not actual connivance, of a certain finance minister, have put us far up the creek and the unions are trying to throw the paddle away. And while I’m at it, I might ask who was mostly responsible for pricing Ireland out of the world’s production market? Come back, Maggie. I think I understand at last.

Richard D Barton

Tinahely

Co Wicklow