With the inflationary spiral ramping up fast and with interest rates predicted to hit 10% by the end of the year the unions are now flexing their muscles, starting with a most devastating of transport services and a national rail strike. This will have an immediate affect on those who have to commute to work by train. Businesses will become short-staffed and cities in particular will have less tourists and shoppers. The economy will nosedive again.

Boris is not Maggie, and he is now politically wounded. The strike is between the rail workers and their employers, not with the government but the unions are going to use it as the tip of the iceberg for all other public service employees. Then we get the parity argument where they want a raise based on how important they are in respect of rail workers. There will be no zero settlements, they will all get something, and more than the government can afford.

Boris is not likely to last another year anyway, but Labour would be unable to hold back the unions who are their paymasters. A rainbow coalition would be even worse with the smallest party wielding the greatest power because of its threat to bring down the coalition.

What we need now is a right-wing government to give us energy security, enforced borders, stop decarbonisation and allow us to make steel again and make cost effective fertilizer for farms being encouraged to become more productive. Stop the land set-aside and re-wilding nonsense and return to 3 or 4 field crop and livestock rotation. 

What we need now is another Maggie.

Antony Nailer

UK Independence Party - Spokesman for Transport