What year is it?

What the union seems to have forgotten, of course, is that the administration of these services is the duty of democratically-elected representatives, who are the only ones who have authority to act on behalf of 'the British people'. It is not up to union officials to decide what will be in the interests of the people of the UK or whether they should implement detrimental policies or not. I don't want to seem 'reactionary right-winger' but they will have to be crushed if they do seek to block these developments (which after all have cross-party support).