Channel Four

One tends to concentrate on the Bitchy Boys because of their air of smug lefty superiority, but of course Channel Four is just as bad and its news presenter, Jon Snow, learned his trade at the Bitchy Boys - notably during the Bitchy Boys' finest hour, when they broadcast information designed to help the Argentines during the Falklands War - and then went forth to set new standards of supercilious bias at C4.

The C4 press release for tonight's Dispatches reads as follows:

With the spending review edging ever closer, Britain's unions are preparing to take advantage of the public's discontent. They have spent the past few decades on the back foot, while the population often never had it so good. So now that austerity measures are set to bite, do these organisations have the mandate to fight back?

How remarkably revealing. Since it makes clear that the unions are apart from "the population", what "mandate" could there possibly be? And, outside of the state sector, where is this "public discontent" that the trades unions are supposed to exploit?

But finally, "on the back foot" really does not come close to adequately describing what has happened to trade union membership. See ONS graph to 2006. Less than a third of the working population is still unionised, practically all of it in the state sector, with membership declining even as the Labour regime privileged its clientele over those who work for a living whose taxes pay their wages.