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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tube strike: more backbone, Boris!

Harry Phibbs in the Mail:

One basic principle should guide the Mayor. However difficult and painful it may be, this present strike must be defeated. Of course Boris will be desperate for it to end - we all are. But not by the grotesque capitulations of his predecessor.

As well as taking inspiration from [Ronald] Reagan over the air traffic controllers, Boris might remember the words of another US President, John Kennedy: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

After that he quotes Enoch Powell. What, no Churchill?

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