Union leaders set to push us over the edge

AS we approach the December budget, the cries for “fairness” from the cosseted classes get louder and union bosses gird their loins for the mother of all showdowns with the Government.

The very people whose rampant benchmarking destroyed any hope of competitiveness in the real world are now prepared to defy logic and push the country over the edge.

Union leaders have been at best unhelpful and at worst dangerously misguided, and the so-called social partners have prevaricated and delayed, probably by years, a return to full economic recovery.