But the Royal Wedding is going to be a bank holiday, isn’t it?

@1 – I’m not from round them London parts. The trains, buses and trams up ‘ere run on bank holidays too. In which case they could strike then I’d have thought.

Is this just an ‘easy win’ way of Red Ed fulfilling his promise not to simply toe the union line after the manner of his election? Pretty simple to be against something thats not happening anyway. Much harder to take a stand on something that might.

Yes – though that would inconvenience rather fewer people.

Different people – not neccesarilly fewer CJCJC

It is very likely that in comparison to a normal non-working say – the royal wedding will draw in significant tourism from non-londoners. They will mostly use public transport to move around the parts of the city they are coming in to see.

Don’t know numbers at this stage – but it is not implausible that the fall in workiing day rush our traffic would not be made up by heightened visitor travel.

Ed knew there were no plans for strikes on the wedding day but it is a victimless crime to denounce something that isn’t going to happen. The whole story was a Daily Mail/CCHQ propaganda piece.

The tories and liberals are g-ing up the trade unions, they want to make them a scapegoat for any economic problems. They been going after benefit claimants and to a lesser extent migrants so far but public sector unions will be their target soon enough.

I’m all for strikes at the time of the royal wedding. Or indeed any other time.

“There is a simple response to the question: there are no strikes planned during the Royal Wedding.” Maybe we should change that then….

Although my sympathies are with the unions – consider this; When Princess Diana and Prince Charles got married to such an overwhelming show of public rejoicing – the adoring crowds actually booed ( a kind of Mexican boo) one VIP as she made her way to the ceremony, in a horse and cart along the Royal Wedding route. We all remember who that was don’t we? Don’t we? It was Grantham’s finest- Booed by a nation united – all along the route! Let us not endanger such a worthy tradition – be sure to take your earplugs Dave and Nick.