Gobshite pram- pusher Angela Rayner spouting her usual bile by opposing the deployment of emergency laws in case of future strike action, hoping instead for a throwback to when Unions could cripple the entire country and keep it in a grip of fear.
Because apparently keeping essential services running, as well as educating a generation whose education's been already heavily disrupted, is a bad thing, under the pretext that Labour care about your average worker *chortle*
Labour really 'Labouring it up' and looking to truly balls up any realistic chance of getting into power, by causing yet more animosity and division - their forte.
"Education, Education, Education" my arse
Well when everything else has failed, what else does the average man or woman have left to them as a course of action than the threat of withdrawing their labour, and if that doesn't work, then to actually go through with it and withdraw their labour? (Y'know, labour, Labour Party, there's a clue in the name.)
Workers organising themselves and going down the route of collective bargaining is the only reason we have stuff like holiday pay, sick pay, maternity leave, two day weekends, paid lunch breaks, maximum working hours, minimum rates of pay, sensible retirement ages, meaningful health & safety legislation, and so on.
Those who know their history, will know that the lives of the working classes in the 1800s and early 1900s were incredibly brutal and poor, marred by illness, infirmity, and early death, thanks to a system that neither cared about them, nor represented them.
Looking into the detail of what Labour are proposing with the 'Minimum Service Level' legislation, they're just after the chance to analyse and debate it properly, and at least see some impact assessments in terms of the consequences, before it gets rushed through parliament without proper scrutiny. (I thought one of the big BREXIT BENEFITS was restoring the primacy of the UK Parliament, so why are the Tories trying to rush shite (quite possibly illegal) legislation through it at a million miles per hour? The last time they did this, if you'll recall, was the amazing Brexit trade deal, and look how that ended up, with monumental turd-for-brains IDS declaring there was no need to debate it because everyone knew everything about it already - LOL, good call Iain, you giant thick twat.)
Ultimately goaty, I'm wondering what it is you're advocating for here, because once workers lose the right to strike, they lose the right to defend themselves, to fight for themselves, to draw a line in the sand and say 'no more'. We're talking about workers that have in some cases lost 20-25% of their income in real terms since 2010, what do you propose they do, just lie down and take it?
The point they're making is that services are already crippled and on their knees, they're already not doing what they're supposed to do, thanks to thirteen years of chronic underfunding, people are leaving these services in droves, the vacancy rates in services like Education and the NHS are appalling and only getting worse, the strikes are intended to focus minds on the wider problem. Nurses and teachers are not loony militants, they're decent, hard-working people who have been pushed, and pushed, and pushed - every worker has the fundamental human right to say, 'No, no more, I will not work for you any longer, until you improve the conditions under which I work. And if you refuse, I will withdraw my labour'.
The path we're going down has an endpoint, we've been there before, it's called feudalism. Spoiler alert - It's not very nice for normal people.
... might as well called it stormzy avenue or rashford road, though I'd love to know the other names they did consider, even corbyn crescent has a nice ring 
