Arthur O'Leary

Hannah Spencer said in her victory speech that ordinary people are now 'working to line the pockets of billionaires'. She says they are 'sick of our hard work making other people rich' ''Working hard used to get me something. 'It got you a house, a nice life, holidays, it got you somewhere. 'But now, working hard, what does that get you? 'Because life has changed. Instead of working for a nice life, we’re working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry. 'People in their thousands told me, on the doorstep and at the ballot box, that what we are sick of is being let down and looked down on 'That we are sick of our hard work making other people rich'

Labour had a choice this evening. Protect patients, commuters and school pupils from strike chaos, or back their union paymasters. They sided with the union bosses. And we know why.