Mick Lynch tells Andrew Marr: 'We're sick and tired of being exploited'

Mick Lynch tells Andrew Marr: 'We're sick and tired of being exploited' | LBC

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Union leader Mick Lynch joins Andrew Marr from the Labour conference in Liverpool. The head of the RMT says he's been 'encouraged' by what he's heard so far, insisting that Sir Keir Starmer's party must form the next government in order to 'rescue working-class communities.'
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@cathlaurs9754 7 ай бұрын

What a fine man Lynch is. Love him.

@reeling-in 7 ай бұрын

Labour and their ‘policies’ have always attracted the flies!

@susansantapola 7 ай бұрын

@@reeling-insour grapes.

@cathlaurs9754 7 ай бұрын

@@reeling-in : haven't a clue what you're talking about.

@OneDaveAtaTime 7 ай бұрын

Really? Wow, another gullible person.

@julianshepherd2038 7 ай бұрын

How can wages keep up with inflation when shareholders are very greedy ?

@MiningForPies 7 ай бұрын

Because we have a minimum wage but not a maximum. That leads to inflation.

@chatham43 7 ай бұрын

....inflation created from quantitive easing to fund the furlough sure you would agree.....

@PaulK-ve1pu 7 ай бұрын

You're right. Big shareholders are a cancer on our society. They contribute absolutely nothing; they simply own. I would take every single share of our infrastructure back into public ownership and pay the shareholders f*ck all. Shares can go down as well as up, so you lose. And if you wish to pursue it through the courts I would make doing so a criminal offence with prison time attached, in that you are wasting the Crown's time. This is what Tories have been doing to us every time they get power.

@marumaru6084 7 ай бұрын

It simple we keep immigrating more "workers" on low wages of course bosses don't have to pay more, it simple supply and demand!!!!

@PaulK-ve1pu 7 ай бұрын

@@marumaru6084 Brexit was supposed to solve this. That went well. And it's not simply supply and demand. There are 100,000 vacancies in the NHS and social care. We don't see their salaries rocketing.

@alundavies1016 7 ай бұрын

Not only the working class, the middle class have been suffering too. The only people who seem to be doing alright are the upper classes, who would have thought it!

@chatham43 7 ай бұрын

...the better they do...the more tax they pay to support those less fortunate...you obviously have a problem with that....😊

@alundavies1016 7 ай бұрын

@@chatham43 if only they paid some tax

@kier1568 7 ай бұрын

@@chatham43the middle class and the working class are in the same boat. Divisions like this won't help. There's not enough people earning between 35-80k to fund the treasury. It's capital owners who should be holding the bill.

@chatham43 7 ай бұрын

...but they do...sadly for your narrative...😊

@kier1568 7 ай бұрын

@@chatham43 no they don't. The middle class don't make up enough of the tax receipts to be considered holding the burden and the capital (upper) class avoid most tax through reinvesting it or donating to their own charities. The working class are actually paying the highest proportion of their income in tax, closely followed by the middle class. You clearly haven't done any research to support that statement.

@robinwitting2023 7 ай бұрын

Over the past 40 years jobs have been levelled down rather than "levelled up." There used to be decent jobs but these have been gradually dismantled, even professions such as nursing and teaching have been diminished. Robin Witting

@ZombieWoof794 7 ай бұрын

The restoration and protection of workers' rights is perhaps THE most important thing a Labour government can implement. I am in no way advocating a return to the days of constant battling between employers and unions, but a fair deal for both. It is impossible to be properly productive without job security and a sense of being valued. The provision of a healthy, well-educated workforce, with proper transport infrastructure can only benefit the whole economy.

@juliegregory3900 7 ай бұрын

Well said.

@KenPassey-hd2mc 7 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👍👍

@noelfleming3567 7 ай бұрын

👍

@eightiesmusic1984 7 ай бұрын

They are not going to reverse the Tory anti trade union laws Blair failed to reverse precisely because red Tories are Tories. Logical.

@Toubabou 7 ай бұрын

There is no Left left. In the english speaking world and continental Europe , the left has sold out the workers. The only consistence is the uber rich voting right without change. The Left is now the refuge for the educated « thinking class » while the right has been able to garner the working class for its benefit by feeding the resentment of those people that have been abandoned by that ruthless system of ours. The right need to activate its dog whistle, perpetually find a scapegoat. They know that if the uneducated mass realize how much they are getting shafted, whom is shafting them will meet the same fate as Marie Antoinette. I have read Thomas Picketty book Capital in the XXth centaur , spending the best part of a month trying to justify why the guillotine should not be brought back. I have just finished Austerity by Yanis Varoufakis, my sharpening tool are on order, I am ready to volunteer.

@lordelpus2297 7 ай бұрын

Anyone who *has* to work is working class.

@granddadmark7639 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯% spot on out sourcing has failed people who work but lavished £'0,000,000s on the 1% riches in society 😢

@gavinsmith9564 7 ай бұрын

Brexit was a race to the bottom of standards, the lower our rights and standards go, the higher for the profits for the rich. Brexit was by the rich for the rich.

@chatham43 7 ай бұрын

....that certainly ticks all the right boxes....you'll do well here....😊

@paulgibbons2320 7 ай бұрын

It was literally stated we would rather be poorer than controlled by Brussels. I'm not rich. The whole basis for remoaner arguement has been financial. So your saying the 80% remoaner media are not rich ?

@alexanstey1742 7 ай бұрын

@@paulgibbons2320you think that 80% of the media were pro remain? That's just delusional. Which pro remain media outlets were you thinking of?

@paulgibbons2320 7 ай бұрын

@@alexanstey1742 BBC , CH4,Guardian. Literally 80% They are still working on it . Believe me.

@LtColBy 7 ай бұрын

"by the rich for the rich" The mantra of all conservative parties in Aus, US, Can, NZ, UK, etc. The Cons use culture wars as tools to get some voters, but the real purpose is, as you say, by the rich for the rich.

@silondon9010 7 ай бұрын

Royal Mail has declared war on its own workforce with brutal workloads and attacks on terms and conditions, 😢, I wish Mr Lynch was our leader

@reeling-in 7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@samsonlovesyou 7 ай бұрын

Lynch is a hero.

@middleman9183 7 ай бұрын

zero

@bwilliamson3887 7 ай бұрын

Why are the working class so obsessed with class.

@RileyWritey 7 ай бұрын

Because it affects them more than anyone else. You sound privileged.

@bwilliamson3887 7 ай бұрын

@bradleygreen5327 Yep I am, and so are you.

@maxpowerii7368 7 ай бұрын

because working class people have unity and loyalty to each other because of shared struggle. it’s hard to explain and to understand if you don’t already sort of thing.

@bwilliamson3887 7 ай бұрын

@maxpowerii7368 Not in Australia, a bloke is just a bloke. It's the English who are obsessed with it and many working class have a chip on the shoulder.

@PaulK-ve1pu 7 ай бұрын

We need, for the sake of the planet and our immediate futures, to lay to rest the idea that things can go on as before. There are solutions through technologies, ideas and sheer will and there are Attlees, Bevans and Bevins out there to envisage a future where all thrive. Haven't seen it in Liverpool though.

@petefl1818 7 ай бұрын

People are going to have to be extraordinarily patient as 40 years of attacking working people's wages and rights will take some time to reverse.

@keithparker1346 7 ай бұрын

Why? If there are say 10 laws that have been implemented that deal with the majority of hassle surely it wouldn't even take 1 term in parliament to repeal amend or supercede those laws?

@kevinwilde 7 ай бұрын

end zero hours and two bob jobs working within the junk food industry. déjà vu 1979 thatcherism urinating on British manufacturing.

@denzel270 7 ай бұрын

Thatcher stopped the Unions urinating on manufacturing and in doing they made us the poor man of Europe.

@glynjones5280 6 ай бұрын

Labour must return to socialism, but first they need to remove Starmer from the party

@1258-Eckhart 7 ай бұрын

I do believe that one of the (probably many) components of the British "low productivity" malaise in international comparisons is Britain's tendency to treat employees and so-called "contractors" as burdens and not as assets. Employees are made to feel like unfortunate necessities to be dispensed with as soon as some automation technology becomes possible. The unions do nothing to correct this, and insist on perpetuating a culture of confrontation. Lynch can attack the EU all he likes, but we have and support the spread of works councils which have served us well in Germany for 60 years and are a contributory factor to stronger employee motivation, leading to better productivity. I speak from personal experience.

@paulgibbons2320 7 ай бұрын

Totally support what your saying.

@drunkengamer1977 7 ай бұрын

Minimum wage Minimum effort

@Scottie444 7 ай бұрын

Low productivity is a lie.... a false statistic.

@gav1nwood 7 ай бұрын

Great interview. Well done both. Relying on Marr and like journalists continuing to highlight new deal for workers - whoever is in power.

@ianship5058 7 ай бұрын

We are all working class

@chatham43 7 ай бұрын

....the middle-class are suffering too as most here can testify...😊

@andypeutherer4218 7 ай бұрын

Everyone I know that voted in the by-election in Scotland voted Labour to get the tories out but are snp. Has to be done, means to an end.

@MiningForPies 7 ай бұрын

The tories are the second party in Scottish elections.

@reeling-in 7 ай бұрын

Labour and their ‘policies’ have always attracted the flies!

@sueyourself5413 7 ай бұрын

What does the iron clad chancellor mean? Is she too about to take inspiration from Thatcher? I thought that we were talking about Labour..

@thefastandthedead1769 7 ай бұрын

Red Tories!

@tompearce3610 7 ай бұрын

She's doing what she needs to attract businesses that we need to work with Labour and reduce the risk of the right wing media attacks that helped sink Corbyn...

@sueyourself5413 7 ай бұрын

@@tompearce3610 It's great that Labour policy is based on what Murdoch and the rightwing want. It fills me with joy and truly provokes confidence in the de facto mainstream LEFTWING party. Do us a favour.

@SlowhandGreg 7 ай бұрын

@@tompearce3610Corbyn sank Corbyn he was unelectable to large swathes of the population His popularity when he handed an 80 seat majority to the Tories on a plate was at Truss like lows

@tompearce3610 7 ай бұрын

@@sueyourself5413 I guess we can agree that Labour in opposition can achieve nothing and that we'd both like the policies Labour implements to be a lot more left wing than currently being discussed openly. Personally I think, worst case, Starmer will be more leftwing and socially responsible than Sunak or the headbangers that will try to replace him. Hopefully a lot more leftwing than people think. Unless he appeals to the swing voters that determine the election, he won't be elected. Bashing Starmer and turning off voters will reduce the votes Labour achieves and may mean fewer MPs. We need electable Labour with a big majority then PR and a big move to the left.

@Slumberesque 6 ай бұрын

Sir Keir Stammer - TAKE NOTE!!

@alridd7038 7 ай бұрын

Can’t fathom why they can’t find the funds.we/i pay way more tax than ever.almost everything has tax and the profits must be astronomical.

@AncientHermit 7 ай бұрын

Shame it's out of sync in places. Timing for audio and visual belong together guys.

@Alex-cw3rz 7 ай бұрын

Hope they don't dilute it

@paulgibbons2320 7 ай бұрын

Labour have supported most of the motions put through by the Torys. Could not pass without cross party support. How you think they will make a difference is a mystery to me. Changing your socks will make more political difference.

@johnrussell3961 7 ай бұрын

We can’t solve the problem in isolation. If we try we just replicate Zimbabwe.

@SuperTonyony 7 ай бұрын

Workers must own and control all the means of production. Anything less is slavery.

@johnrussell3961 7 ай бұрын

Meanwhile in China….

@kevoreilly6557 7 ай бұрын

Then go buy the means of production and set up a co-op

@selfpreservationsociety 7 ай бұрын

British Labour Party just a middle class hobby,

@chatham43 7 ай бұрын

....they lost the working class when they chose to adopt "progressive" policies which alienated many of them...simplistic slogans may attract them back...we shall see....

@anthonymcnamee6297 7 ай бұрын

Blue Labour

@user-fk5qg6fd3e 7 ай бұрын

I do think Lynch is a genuine man, but I find it difficult to forget that he voted for Brexit despite the damage he must have known it would cause.

@julianshepherd2038 7 ай бұрын

Anti union laws were anyting to do with the EU.

@noelfleming3567 7 ай бұрын

Don't forget to blame d eu

@johnmulligan912 7 ай бұрын

I think what he’s saying is that being in the EU didn’t stop anti union legislation. Not that the EU passed anti union legislation.

@andrewneil6027 7 ай бұрын

Almost night and day 🙃🤟

@pureblood1980x 7 ай бұрын

You want the working class back...make it so going to work is worth it. That means Higher wages and NO taxation on those wages. Enough taxes are paid on everyday goods...why tax people on income when those who won't work don't contribute? Until then Labour will NEVER get my vote. We're currently looking into moving home... we're talking about what's needed from my wife and I and to afford it we're looking into paying around £600 per month each for everything. At the current rate of pay that's around 50 to 60 hours of work. It's not acceptable to have both parents having to work 30+ hours each weekly to live "just about managing".

@chatham43 7 ай бұрын

....paying income tax whilst on the minimum wage.....what will Sir Keir do about that...?

@MiningForPies 7 ай бұрын

@@chatham43 of course people on minimum wage should pay income tax. Stop leeching so much.

@johnmulligan912 7 ай бұрын

I’m working class. I go to work, I pay taxes. I’m happy to pay tax. It obvious that you listen to the right wing media,the people who don’t contribute are the richest people in the country. Not the small % who are on benefits and not working . The vast amount of people claiming benefits are in work. Unfortunately you’re directing your frustrations at the wrong people. Punch up ,not down .

@kevoreilly6557 7 ай бұрын

@@chatham43the threshold should be increased to $20,000 - that would be effectively 0 tax on minimum wage for 35 hrs per week (close enough) Shouldn’t be taxed on what has been effectively declared the minimum to live on

@kevoreilly6557 7 ай бұрын

That said 50-60 per week for two people is over 50k a year (10.40*50*50)*2 = 26k*2

@jhwheuer 7 ай бұрын

Sadly enough, the margins necessary for higher compensation are being eaten by Brexit Benefits.

@lestrem11 7 ай бұрын

We are the friend of business …..what about the unions?……don’t mention them please.

@SlowhandGreg 7 ай бұрын

What's your point? We need growth and efficiency gains unions don't invest businesses do you can create a level playing field for both not do what the Tories do play everyone off against each other

@kevoreilly6557 7 ай бұрын

@@SlowhandGregunion pension funds are one of the biggest investors on the stock markets, so absolutely they do invest in the growth of business

@keithparker1346 7 ай бұрын

@@SlowhandGregtell me Labours plans to grow the economy without raising taxes or investing. It ain't going to happen

@SlowhandGreg 7 ай бұрын

@@keithparker1346 Cut the trickle down Cr@p Last budget alone 8 billion to bankers 6 billion to fossil 2 billion millionaire pensioners Match private and public funding on infrastructure projects such as GBEnergy, If you processed All the Asylum claims you'd deport 20,000 a year and have 60,000 extra working in the economy generating taxation and reducing spend by 2 Billon If you raised the minimum wage + 20% tax threshold you'd reduce in work benifit if you empower housing associations to build social housing you'll drive down rents boosting money circulation in the wider economy etc.

@pianoflat 7 ай бұрын

🇬🇧🔚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

@shiraz1736 7 ай бұрын

Thatcher was the beginning of the end for the most productive people in the country.

@reeling-in 7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@denzel270 7 ай бұрын

The country was on it's knees due to the Unions when she took over. The Unions made us the poor man of Europe and companies closed due to their strike and militant rules.

@robertbolsover2397 7 ай бұрын

Writing a new human rights charter would be a start.

@thefastandthedead1769 7 ай бұрын

Fine words, except Scottish Labour voted to not give the Scottish Government those powers to enact the better employment laws. So Scottish Labour has just maintained the Thacherites status quo! Scotland could have lead this improvement in workers rights and rUK could have caught up as they wished. So much for Liebours progressive words!

@KenPassey-hd2mc 7 ай бұрын

Blah,Blah.

@sueyourself5413 7 ай бұрын

@@KenPassey-hd2mc Facts, eh?

@KenPassey-hd2mc 7 ай бұрын

@@sueyourself5413 don't blame Labour for 13 years of total incompetence. That's a fact 😂😂👍👍

@thefastandthedead1769 7 ай бұрын

@@KenPassey-hd2mc Labour has to be blamed because they have voted against a number of progressive policies. Labour have voted with the Blue Tories. Not only that 70-80% of what is instituted in Scotland is controlled from WM. So that would be the Blue Tories. In Scotland Red or Blue Tories means the same!

@daviestewart1725 7 ай бұрын

Labour will do exactly what the Tories do. Tell the public a pack of lies, make promises they have no intention of keeping, make lucrative deals with private companies to secure their own financial futures and claim as much on their expenses forms as they possibly can!

@chatham43 7 ай бұрын

....nope ....new new Labour promise a newer future...why don't you believe them.....!😊😀

@paulgibbons2320 7 ай бұрын

Exactly. It's like changing your socks. No more significant than that.

@petersmith6678 7 ай бұрын

He's correct 👍

@sarahtooldtocare8561 7 ай бұрын

Unfortunately the unions will be sadly disappointed as Keir starmer is a conservative in red. And if the Labour Party renege on word then the unions should stop supporting them and offer the financial support to the Greens as they support environment jobs and technologies for the future generations to come.

@patriciaoreilly8907 7 ай бұрын

Mr. Lynch is absolutely right but why has it taken labour now to do something? This is not a labour party the people want

@MiningForPies 7 ай бұрын

According to the polls it is. We tried Corbyn and he was utterly rejected.

@oneoflokis 7 ай бұрын

@@MiningForPiesYeah. By Murdoch and Paul Dacre! 😏 And IF you are delusional enough to believe, that any highs in the polls for Labour (Starver's approval rating is low though) have ANYTHING to do with "the people" loving Starmer's Labour, rather than the total implosion of the Tory party.. Well. Delusional is the word!

@johnrussell3961 7 ай бұрын

As the Rolling Stones said…. You may not get what you want…but you get what you need.

@SlowhandGreg 7 ай бұрын

The working class voted UKIP BREXIT BORIS And that trend accelerated during Corbyn's tenure most of those votes are permanently lost, Labour are doing what the Democrats did over in the states appealing to the middle class and younger educated vote + women in general

@reeling-in 7 ай бұрын

Labour and their ‘policies’ have always attracted the flies!

@DeadPaul1996 7 ай бұрын

We need a right wing alliance we need The Tories to team up with Reform UK to prevent a woke Britain and to prevent a radical left wing Britain. MAKE BRITAIN GREAT BRITAIN AGAIN 🇬🇧

@terryloftus3207 7 ай бұрын

The left wing will make sure there are better wages,terrible for you eh?.Decent NHS you must be beside yourself with rage,decent public transport,you must be crying,well TOUGH

@RabbiMalahkYah 7 ай бұрын

LBC Liberal British Commies

@user-lx1kd2ui1l 7 ай бұрын

Andrew grow up man ,this guy could have taken you apart you were lucky

@DrMontague 7 ай бұрын

tired of been exploited, lynch voted brexit and bojo!

@patbutcher5836 7 ай бұрын

He doesn't work for the working classes 😂 have you seen how much these people earn?

@user-fw2pp3wm2k 7 ай бұрын

Can you ALL stop referring to the U.K. as A country it’s not, you making those of us outside of England feel alienated

@paulgibbons2320 7 ай бұрын

We all know what they should be about. But unfortunately we also know/suspect what they really are about. They are more interested in rescuing Hama's and Palestine.

@stretfordend2103 7 ай бұрын

Know / suspect / believe / imagine / get from Facebook / do my research and other weasel words .. Dullard.

@reeling-in 7 ай бұрын

Labour’s conference never fails to entertain! The bull, lies and empty promises. But Starmer’s best and most interesting moment was the Gary Glitter impression!😂

@KenPassey-hd2mc 7 ай бұрын

Far more interesting to us than the Tory party Conference of pure drivel !!!!

@BLUESKY-zt1nv 7 ай бұрын

protection of workers' rights is not going to go well with the working classes who vote Tory

@weareone910 7 ай бұрын

Yeah mate get back to GB NEWS you'll feel more at home there

@cathlaurs9754 7 ай бұрын

@reeling-in: Ah, there you are again. Now I understand your reply to my message - you're a right wing Tory supporter. That's OK, some people are but I don't understand how you can possibly support thieves and crooks - beggars belief.

@denzel270 7 ай бұрын

@@weareone910 Keep putting your head in the bucket of sand.

@mitchmichaelcoburn1577 7 ай бұрын

When it comes to the working class, everybody is too cowed by the threat of accusations of racism to point out the elephant in the room - mass immigration. Working peoples wages, ability to negotiate better conditions, buy decent property at a reasonable price are all undermined by the importation of cheap low skilled labour. We need re-migration and our elites to treat working people fairly for once.

@gburns671 7 ай бұрын

Not voting for a Tory Reserve Party, they offer the working class and middle class absolutely nothing but more Tory Austerity, every policy they suggest I see another backtrack by Sir Kid Starver and Company, if they promise things they need to honour not throw them back out later down the line.

@Perchpole 7 ай бұрын

Working class and middle class? What’s the difference these days?

@robinj6137 7 ай бұрын

"Waah, waah, waah! If the Labour party doesn't hold every single position I have, then I'll just let the tories ruin the country more. I don't care what the electorate may vote for". "I'll even make a little epithet , Kid Starver, even though he's never been in power and y'know starved any kids'. Self-indulgent, immature, fundamentalist posturing with no understanding of political reality and no real care for improving the lives of people, however incremental. Tory enabling in the current circumstances is unforgivable

@eightiesmusic1984 7 ай бұрын

The red Tories can be relied on to continue neoliberalism. Starmer is the establishment pick to maintain and further entrench the status quo. Nothing will change and an extremist nationalist populist ( a lot of ists)Tory resurgence is on the cards owing to the likely Labour failure if it continues with business as usual.

@johnmulligan912 7 ай бұрын

Most people who consider themselves middle class aren’t they’re at best upper working class.

@SennaStar 7 ай бұрын

THE LABOUR CHANNEL

@SlowhandGreg 7 ай бұрын

Marr is pretty much a centerist the current Tories have moved far right into Ukip territory He's given a fair shout to Conservatives its not his fault they won't be interviewed by him

@keegan773 7 ай бұрын

And we’re sick and tired of Lynch’s 1970’s Union policies.

@elboobio5920 7 ай бұрын

Who's 'we'? The Tories? Are you Gillian Keegan?

@keegan773 7 ай бұрын

@@elboobio5920 1) The people and 2) no.

@elboobio5920 7 ай бұрын

@@keegan773 If you're working class you are never tired of a unions fight for workers rights and fair pay. I will never understand anyone who doesn't want those things.