Lock-’em-up Conservatives competing noisily to bash workers the hardest reveals a terrifying hostility to grafters, families, the retired or even most businesses.
Expecting men and women desperate to protect their plummeting living standards to grovel like Oliver Twist, politely begging for more, please sir, while cuffing them with the anger of a Victorian master is 21st-century bully politics.
Transport strikes might be nearer resolution if hectoring Grant Shapps spent five minutes meeting trade union leaders – Micks Lynch and Whelan and Manuel Cortes – instead of the Transport Secretary bellowing scandalous threats to shackle them in work gangs on the railway.
