A potent Tory tag team in the Sun today, as David Cameron and Boris Johnson join pens to
take on the unions. The tone of their article is as blunt as anything we’ve
heard from them on the matter, particularly the Prime Minister. “Let’s call these threats what they are,” it says about the prospect of strikes during the Royal Wedding and the Olympics:
“nothing more than headline grabbing to score political points”. And it continues to deliver a warning to union bosses: “you can try to drag this country back to the 1970s, to a time
when militants held our country to ransom, but you will not succeed.”
It’s not all frontal assault, though. There’s a subtler vein of divide-and-conquer in all this. BoCam make an appeal to “union leaders who are … willing to engage in sensible dialogue” – which presumably refers more to those who recently shared
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