May 2010 Archives

HAS there ever been a more blatant disregard for the loyalty of customers than the strike action being proposed by British Airways' trolley dollies?

The airline's deluded, badly advised cabin crew are poised to launch a programme of spring misery that is designed to foul up the holidays of thousands of passengers.

Led by their belligerent union bosses at Unite, workers are set to down ice-cube tongs and perfume testers for a total of 20 days.

The protest is aimed at stifling BA's cost-cutting plans - plans the airline must introduce if its jets are to remain in the skies rather than corroding on the Tarmac.

During the last nine months of 2009, BA made a pre-tax loss of £342 million. It made a profit of £70 million for the corresponding period in 2008. It's in big do-do.

Something has got to give if the company is to survive in the face of low-cost competition from budget carriers such as Ryanair.

And the cash-saving changes BA has implemented - including a pay-freeze and jiggling with shift numbers on long haul flights - are no different to those being introduced by other major employers as they, and we all, wrestle with the recession.

Unite should cancel the strike, tell workers to buckle down and win back some customer respect - while it's still got some.

JOAN Collins is to appear in panto in Brum.

At the age of 76, she should be tucked up under a blanket, doing word searches, not playing Queen Rat at the Hippodrome.

Gentleman of a certain age will remember the nubile actress whipping her kit off in The Bitch.

Why ruin it now - and trample on our dreams? When it's over, love, it's over.

THERE has, quite rightly, been a frenzy of Labour-baiting.Deluded Socialists have been the dim-witted victims of the most audacious election con in British political history - and they didn't see it coming.