IN HIS ‘View from Westminster’ (Opinion, November 12), Mark Garnier clearly shows his support for the Tory Trade Union Bill.
He refers to trade unions and the ‘general public’ as though they are not one and the same, and then concludes with patronising sentiment.
In describing the Bill as though it is some bastion for democracy, he omits to inform the reader of its draconian clauses, especially those on picketing.
Such clauses that even former Tory Home Secretary David Davis compared them to laws passed by fascist Franco in Spain.
Trade Unions, especially since the Victorian era, have played an enormous role in securing some of the democratic rights ‘the general public’ enjoy.
It would appear that the struggles of that era are needed again given that diseases from that era are again soaring.
NHS statistics reveal that 7366 people were given a diagnosis of malnutrition in 2014-2015, a rise of some 40 per cent during the term of Mr Garnier’s government.
Just how democratic is that Mr Garnier?
Tony Raybould Bewdley
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