Wow, nice discovery, he looks a joyful striker. My how things change…

I am pretty sure this would only be hypocrisy if he opposed trades unions.

Given that his excuse for writing criticism of Ashcroft was that he was ‘paid to entertain’, I’m sure he’s got some lame explanation for the photo (take your pick from ‘Photoshop’, ‘I was young and needed the money’, ‘Did I tell you about my evil twin brother…?’ or ‘…it was either this or they’d drown my puppy’)

“‘…it was either this or they’d drown my puppy’”

I knew the NUJ used underhand methods…

It could of course have been he was at the time in dispute with his employers? A strange reason to go on strike, considering at the time he must have known he would be some twenty years later the education spokesman for a party making political hay out of a totally unrelated and different strike Mr Gove does not appear (assuming he agrees with party statements) to believe to be justified.

For those incapable of not understanding life is not black and white lets look at it this way. You can support some strikes and not others, on a case-by-case basis. A strike is not right by virtue of being a strike, but rather may have a case. Considering the sector as a whole, I would find it very difficult to support the BA strike, although I accept that this is a democratically-mandated decision.

People are going to have a hard time recalling when the Tory party last supported a strike in the UK.

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Nah. He’s a closet lefty.