A fine lesson in arbitration

I'm delighted to see that the cheese-eating collaborators have finally learned how to deal with striking labour unions - set highly trained killers on them. If Margaret Thatcher taught the world nothing else, it's that the only way to deal with these malingerers and wastrels is to let them feel the sharp smack of firm government.

I only wish that the university here would employ a similar policy. It seems that every time I walk across campus some group of ancilliary staff or another is staging a picket in demand of extra biscuits with their morning coffee. It's completely counter-productive, by going on strike they only demonstrate how efficiently the university can run without them, but of course the gutless management won't do anything.

When money gets tight here it's the faculty that are fired, not the unionised bean-counters.