Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill
Debate between Karl Turner and Charlie Elphicke
Charlie Elphicke (Dover) (Con)
Does my hon. Friend think that now is the time to be passing legislation to make it easier to strike, when we need to pull ourselves out of this massive recession the country has had to face, thanks to the shambolic economic policies of the Labour Government? At another time in the future, when the country is perhaps doing better—
Charlie Elphicke
It is not nonsense; it is accurate. It was Labour Members who caused the recession and now they are trying to make it easier to strike. That is not a fiscally responsible thing to do.