- Joined
- Jun 13, 2016
Speaking of professors, I had one at university who would have been a Tumblrina had he been 40 years' younger. Enter Professor Keith Ewing. Scotsman, and relic from the 1970s which was the last time militant trade unionism in the UK was still a relevant political force.
(Incidentally, Keith Ewing's been in the media recently shilling for Len McCluskey and Jeremy Corbyn.)
Professor Keith Ewing taught me employment law. Like many academics, he'd written a book on it and then set it as the book for his class. To be honest, he was extremely knowledgeable about it, but in terms of what he was like during lectures / seminars... well, 80% of his class, easily, was him flailing the bladder about trade unionism and how it works and how unions of today are pathetic and moaning about how Maggie Thatcher (piss be upon her) cucked them hardcore in the 1980s. Reportedly, he set the same essay every single time, and that was on whether or not the right to strike is a human right. This was then followed by revisionism and tired old talking points about the miners' strike of 1984-5 and the Wapping dispute and how if only this and if only that, Thatcher would have died in shame and we would have a harmonious Socialist society.
Yeah. He really liked militant trade unionism. All out forever tomorrow etc.
Anyhow. That year, Kettle Chips were apparently trying to dissuade its workers from joining the trade union Unite, who are coincidentally the union that Len McCluskey leads, and he spotted that I had my lunch on my desk and a bag of Kettle Chips in it. Cue massive tangent about how I deserved to choke on them for supporting such an anti-union company.
Next week, everyone brought in Kettle Chips.
There was much reeeeeeing.
(Incidentally, Keith Ewing's been in the media recently shilling for Len McCluskey and Jeremy Corbyn.)
Professor Keith Ewing taught me employment law. Like many academics, he'd written a book on it and then set it as the book for his class. To be honest, he was extremely knowledgeable about it, but in terms of what he was like during lectures / seminars... well, 80% of his class, easily, was him flailing the bladder about trade unionism and how it works and how unions of today are pathetic and moaning about how Maggie Thatcher (piss be upon her) cucked them hardcore in the 1980s. Reportedly, he set the same essay every single time, and that was on whether or not the right to strike is a human right. This was then followed by revisionism and tired old talking points about the miners' strike of 1984-5 and the Wapping dispute and how if only this and if only that, Thatcher would have died in shame and we would have a harmonious Socialist society.
Yeah. He really liked militant trade unionism. All out forever tomorrow etc.
Anyhow. That year, Kettle Chips were apparently trying to dissuade its workers from joining the trade union Unite, who are coincidentally the union that Len McCluskey leads, and he spotted that I had my lunch on my desk and a bag of Kettle Chips in it. Cue massive tangent about how I deserved to choke on them for supporting such an anti-union company.
Next week, everyone brought in Kettle Chips.
There was much reeeeeeing.
