No, no, no, no, no!

What is wrong with the Conservatives? Where does this incessant desire to appease our enemies come from? You'd have thought we'd have learnt from Neville Chamberlain's day but it seems that some within the Party still wish to appease our enemies.

The Times says that the so-called modernisation fund - in reality taxpayer subsidy for trades' unions - will possibly not be abolished by an incoming Tory government after all.

If this is true it is a disgraceful decision. The unions are almost single-handedly to blame for the decline in Britain's manufacturing sector and now they are wanting to destroy the public sector and, in time, the financial services sector too. If you want to read about the pernicious nature of trades unions, go to Tesco and pay a tenner for John Prescott's autobiography. It will confirm every prejudice that you might have ever had about trades' unions and trade unionists.

Tories need to campaign hard for smaller government, lower taxes and less spending. The country simply cannot afford to piss away money left, right and centre. We must look for savings and ways to incentivise innovation and commerce before it's too late. We don't need to appease. It's no longer what is required at a time when the public know in their hearts that we need to cut taxes and cut spending.

The NUT - dinosaurs

Jurassic Park is alive and well: welcome to the National Union of Teachers, led by class warrior and bigot Bill Greenshields. The latest madness to come from the NUT - whose members gleefully indoctrinate our nation's children with leftist, politically correct filth - is a call for all independent schools to be brought into the state sector.  

Usually all we get from the NUT conference is a threat of strikes over pay, conditions or testing of students. This year is no different: NUT members will be balloted to strike over class sizes and inadequate pay. 

But the idea that our independent schools - which dominate league tables and offer a superior education to the overwhelming majority of state-run schools - should be run by the state is moronic. There's a reason that parents will make sacrifices to send their kids to the best schools: it's because these schools are full of teachers who care passionately about the kid they teach and they invariably find a child's talent and help him or her develop it to its full extent. All too often state-run schools fail the children they should be educating - and the blame for that lies with too many indolent teachers who are more interested in fighting the class war than in providing kids with a well-rounded education. 

My Two Cents...on the postal strike

Today is the first of two 48 hour postal strikes. The unions tell us the dispute is over pay, pensions and jobs. Normal service will not be resumed until next Thursday and in the meantime individuals and businesses will not have any post delivered whatsoever. The Communications Workers Union has made it clear that if their demands are not met, a series of weekly rolling strikes will begin.

Have these militant dinosaurs not learned anything from the 1970s? Their behaviour directly led to the collapse of car manufacture, mining and ship building in Britain.

The sight of over 100,000 usually overweight, cigarette smoking postal workers hurling abuse at any of their colleagues who dare to cross the picket line in the next few days, their ruddy faces contorted with rage, will not be an image that Royal Mail customers easily forget.

There is a simple reason the Post Office is not the force it once was. In part it is because of the Neanderthal approach of the unions who resist change. But it is also because businesses in particular have given up on the unreliability of the Post Office and instead choose to use either private courier companies or email.

Many individuals do so too – but this will be of no comfort to those individuals and businesses whose very survival depends on the regular receipt of income, correspondence or orders through the mail.

The one justice that may result after this series of Marxist inspired strikes is that many of the cretins taking part in it will lose their jobs anyway. As they sit contemplating life on the scrap heap maybe they will have the time to reflect on how their selfish, unnecessary and disproportionate actions directly led to them losing their jobs rather than saving them. Or maybe they will continue to fail to face up to reality.