Brimstone wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 15 Dec 2004:

Paul Weaver wrote:
But do they? No! Of course they dont. Instead they get a few
millitants to brainwash members and bully those that want to work
(and those that arent members of the mob)

Not forgetting the apathetic ones who won't get off their arses and attend
branch meetings and influence what goes on.


I did hear that the militants sometimes - and I'm sure this can't be
true in all cases - cause meetings to spin out for hours and hours until
all the moderates go home in despair and boredom, and the militants take
control.... intimidating any remaining moderates off the committees....
I don't suppose this is still true today, but it may well have been in
the days when the unions held the nations to ransom!
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