A lot of thtat's true Dave - but the real blame when things get out of hand like that isn't the "left wing militants", it's the people who sit back and don't bother to ploay an active part in something they own. To use aniother analogy, if you have a dog and it attacks passers by, or fouls the pavement, you can't just blame the dog, and say it's a nothing to do with you. And dogs are very useful creatures.

And in my experience the people who pull those kind of tricks in unions very often aren't particularly political at all. They are thinking in terms of making the most of an opportunity to maximise short term returns. Typical bloody market economy caopuitalists in fact. No wonder so many of them found it so easy to adjust to New Labour's Thatcherism-with-a human-face.