I can understand why Theresa May should want to toy with the idea of having ‘workers’ representatives on board’. As with Tony Blair and his promise to be tough on crime, and David Cameron and gay marriage, it has become a tradition in modern-day elections that a party campaigning from a position of strength makes an audacious raid behind the lines to plant a flag in some prominent place in enemy territory. It creates the impression that you are not merely trying to pitch for votes at the fringes of your opponents’ traditional homeland – you are confident enough to present yourself as a government for everyone.
May’s proposals are, however, highly tokenistic. She has not really converted to the TUC’s dream world, where companies are run by bosses in association with the workers. Her promise for workers on board, made when she entered Downing Street, has been watered down for having a ‘worker’s representative’ on the board, which isn’t quite the same thing.
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