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[Quizmonster]

In today’s Sun http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4896953/Tories-want-change-to-strike-laws.html Boris Johnson says, "The idea that a strike can be called by a majority of those that vote, rather than a majority of all those balloted, is farcical…I'd urge the Government to act with some Thatcherite zeal and at the very least legislate against strikes supported by less than half of all union members." (Note the band-wagon reference to Thatcher.)
A reasonable idea one might think, at least until one grasps that Johnson himself became London Mayor in 2012 when the turnout was only 38% of the capital’s electorate!
Apart from the usual Tory “one rule for us and another rule for them” policy, what conceivable grounds can there be for supporting his view or considering it any less farcical? Surely what's good for the Tory goose should be equally good for the Union gander.

[chiefsub68]

In short: none.