Bob Crow.

The leader of the RMT is obviously living in a parallel universe, where there is no credit crunch.  In BC-land, no businesses have undergone complusory redundancy programmes and everyone has received a healthy pay rise this year.  Why else would he be pressuring London Underground for a 5% pay increase this year and an assurance that there will not be any compulsory redundancies?

The firm I work for (like many in the City) has lost around 10% of its workforce to redundancy, and has enforced a pay freeze this year. Bonuses are but a distant memory.  Yes, it’s tough.  But we endure.  And the last thing we need is some militant arse-wipe holding us tube-users to ransom.  And I know I’ve just started the last three sentences with conjunctions.  And I don’t care (see – there’s another).

I’m sure that fact that England are playing at Wembley tomorrow night is merely coincidence…