The Lynch Effect: This Is What Real Leadership Looks Like
Let’s talk about the Lynch effect today. I don’t think many of you had even heard of Mick Lynch just 2 months ago - I know I hadn’t - but the boss-bodying Tory-trashing General Secretary of the RMT Union has arrived on the 20.22 from Paddington and become one of the most talked-about people in Britain. See, we’ve been here before. A popular figure is propelled out of nowhere to challenge the rich and powerful wealth-takers, the establishment media, and the government of the day, and they inevitably have a target painted on their backs by the aforementioned. “Barons”, “dinosaurs”, “militants”, “Marxists”, and in the case of Mr Lynch, “Union hard man”. Lynch says of his apparent “hard man” reputation: “I’m not Schwarzenegger. I’ve got the same sensibilities as everyone else. I’m not a hard nut. But I do like to win the argument, and sometimes it involves a campaign that leads to industrial action.” We live in a capitalists playground, you are told that authentic leaders such as Lync