Kirstie Allsopp, who inherited approximately £1.5 million from her father, has managed to boil my blood many times over the years but her rant at the RMT is her worst yet
When it comes to working class issues and debates about workers’ rights, I do everything I can to avoid learning the opinions of people whose parents’ names are a blue link on Wikipedia in order to keep my blood pressure down.
But somehow, Kirstie Allsopp, daughter of Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, and her out of touch views on society always find a way onto my timeline.
Over the years, Kirstie, who inherited approximately £1.5 million from her father, has managed to boil my blood many times over the years; from claiming young people are unable to purchase a house due to not being willing to make enough sacrifices like cutting out coffee, to claiming people working from home is a problem for economy and society while failing to mention that being married to a property tycoon may skew her view.
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And this week she’s back with a new wild opinion – possibly her worst one yet. This week thousands of members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are taking industrial action all week in a dispute over pay and hours – and of course, The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp has some thoughts.
“In a hospital, just listening to a nurse discuss his very difficult journey to work this morning. Perhaps one of the striking tube drivers might want to do a job swap for a day?” Kirstie mused on Twitter (X) as the action began on Monday.
She had more to add later the same day, telling her followers: “Tonight in London packed buses, dodgy looking bikes, mopeds & people just walking. Night workers heading to their shifts, others struggling to get home, knowing it will be the same tomorrow night. Does @RMTunion care at all?”
Kirstie is simply showing compassion for nurses and shift workers, you might argue. But the issue is she is using other public service workers as pawns in a game and trying to stoke division – just like she did in 2011.
In November 2011, thousands of UK nurses joined a nationwide public sector strike over government plans to raise the retirement age and scrap final salary pensions, amongst other things. Surely Kirstie, who this week has appointed herself as a spokesperson for nurses struggling with the tube strike, was quick to support the strikers whose work she values.
Spoiler alert – she did the exact opposite. “Of course my ‘dilemma’ is a #firstworldproblem but who thinks this strike is going to solve anything? #genuinelyinterestedtohear,” Kirstie mused on Twitter when writing in hashtags was weirdly the norm.
Kirstie attended ten schools as a child, but not one of them managed to teach her that life shouldn’t be a raise to the bottom. Thanks to the fact she was born into more wealth than I will ever see in my lifetime, Kirstie doesn’t have to concern herself with class solidarity.
As the RMT says, unity is strength. When one group of workers risks losing their hard-won rights, we all do. Kirstie is not, has never been, and will never be part of the class that has to fight for scraps from billionaires.
Kirstie is part of the group of people who want those on less money than London Underground workers to question why they get paid ‘so much’ rather than why they get paid so little?
I doubt Kirstie intentionally plans her outbursts, she seems the type to just tweet out whatever pops in her head that day without considering the context, but she constituently fuels the establishment dream of the proletariat fighting each other rather than the system.
RMT replied to Kirstie’s ‘concerned’ tweet on Monday, telling her: “We care deeply, Kirsty. Our members assist 5 million passengers every day. They don’t want to inconvenience anybody but sadly TfL walked out of talks that could have averted this action last Wednesday, and have not returned.”
I hope she takes their response on board and even replies to them apologising. However, I won’t know if she does as I’m finally going to practise some long overdue self-care and block her from all my social media feeds.
Source: Mirror
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