The greatest Prime Minister we never hadLetter from Sarah Gale
Possibly the greatest Prime Minister we never had, is retiring. Mick Lynch, the working class lad from Paddington, left school at 16 and then proceeded to eloquently perform common sense verbal gymnastics with those who brazenly lie (see here) and who, when they fail to outsmart him, then resorted to slander and the proverbial grasping at straws.
Mick amplified the voices of poorly paid and precariat workers everywhere and not just his RMT union members. I was fortunate to meet him twice, once at an ‘Enough is Enough’ rally in 2022, and then on the march to save the ticket offices in 2023, where I saw many hopeful faces proudly holding up placards saying, “Mick Lynch for Prime Minister.”
You couldn’t meet a more authentic bloke; he looked chuffed when I gifted him a copy of Tressell’s ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ and informed me, “that’s my bible.”
Mick, like all Left Horizons readers I’m sure, refuses to believe that a fairer society is impossible – a society where everyone can and does thrive. Mick epitomises the celebrated quotation from the Welsh thinker and writer, Raymond Williams: “To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.”
I wish Mick a well-earned retirement and hope he lives to see the words of another great man, albeit a fictional one, come to fruition:
“’The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.’ Cpt Jean-Luc Picard.”
[Feature photograph from RMT website, here].
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