We seem to live in days when, whatever one's opinions of an individual, one is expected to become a hypocrite when they die.
I've said it before and will repeat it now: I did not personally like Bob Crow – in eye-to-eye contact (the closest I came) I thought him surly and with an aggressive demeanour. People who knew him say that that was not the case, but that remains my opinion (ie subjective) based on my rather limited encounters with him and what I heard from some others.
However, he did exactly what his members elected him to do and paid him for: he defended their jobs and incomes – and it is no coincidence that, unlike in most other sectors, they have not lost ground in the income stakes in the last 12 years.
It's possibly only a coincidence that membership of the RMT increased on his watch.
Perhaps Redboy dislikes democracy and dislikes ordinary workers who are not prepared to lie down and be hammered by their employers?
