Actually it's better to think of the members as shareholders.
Each one has seen their pay and benefits increase above inflation. Which makes him a successful Union leader.
He uses the fact that he has a powerful and rare rescource at his disposal to increase the value to his shareholders. When he does it he's "Holding london to ransom"
But when say a gold mining company puts prices up, or the petrochemical companies, or the energy companies, to make massive profits for their shareholders... There's a big double standard here.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 10:13, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Double standards indeed.
He claims to be a communist and should therefore surely not command such a huge salary - why hasn't he shared it out amongst 'the workers'?

Clue: because he isn't one at all in reality.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 10:26, Reply)

And why didn't lenin live in a 1 bed flat.
You can't live as a communist in a capitalist country. The state and the politics go hand in hand. Your argument's going off on a tangent to justify your hatred of a guy, who is doing exactly what he's employed to do.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 10:28, Reply)

Neither did Stalin or Kruschev
and they DID live in a communist country. Communism doesn't work because people are too selfish. Time to move on, hippies.
( Kroney, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 10:33, Reply)

Communism works perfectly
until you introduce real human beings into the system - at which point it collapses instantly.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 10:44, Reply)

I quite agree
and I have strong socialist leanings. Communism's a noble theory, but the only people that communes work for are soap-dodgers and you can't run a country with a bunch of crusties.
( Kroney, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 10:48, Reply)