Could’nt have put it better re: union restrictions -in fact I’ll almost certainly copy and paste your words for another post. Remnds me of Dsvidd Harvey in Brief History of Neoliberalism, but I can’t remember what it was right now.

As you rightly point out, without taming the power of capital, we’re pissing in the wind.

What has Blond to say about those most conservative of institutions, the trade unions? At the moment unions are trying to defend their members from attacks on terms and conditions – from being impoverished, in other words. Rather than set these tightly-regulated institutions free, the Tories want to keep unions shackled by the law – and thus keep low earners trapped in poverty.