London mayor Boris Johnson, travelling through Gatwick Airport on return from holiday with his family, experienced British union incompetence and indifference firsthand:
Mr Johnson said his nightmare started when he got through passport control with wife Marina and their four children. The family-had just returned from a week-long holiday.
He said: ‘It did occur to us to wonder why there were so few passport controllers, and so many hundreds of exhausted travellers shuffling round the ox-pens, like inmates of some Victorian penitentiary. By this time, I knew we stood in hell.’
He said the baggage hall was full of people — some who had been waiting more than two and a half hours.
‘Some sat and stared at the barren carousels; some tried to cheer themselves up by pretending to be their own missing luggage, sitting on the conveyor belts and taking pictures of each other with their mobile phones,’ he said.
‘It is a measure of the extreme cowardliness and cynicism of the airport authorities that there was no one from BAA in that baggage hall.
‘In their contemptuous indifference, the airport authorities remind me of the 1970s, and the trade unions of my childhood.’
It's this sort of rudeness and incompetence that will guarantee a Tory goverment the next time elections are held in UK.
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