Gary Neville ripped into Jake Berry after the Tory MP took a brass neck swipe at the Labour Party.
Berry warned that new Labour commitments to unions could threaten key public services, seemingly forgetting his party’s record in government.
Angela Rayner set out Labour’s planned new deal for workers this week, winning a standing ovation after addressing the TUC Congress on Tuesday.
She told delegates she had one message – that a Labour government will build an economy that works for workers through its promised “new deal”.
She outlined plans to update union laws, outlaw blacklisting, give unions a new legal right to access to workplaces, making it easier to recruit and represent workers, and allow electronic balloting.
Ms Rayner – a former social worker – also announced there would be a “fair pay agreement” for workers in adult social care, which she believes will make a big difference to low-paid workers in the sector.
But not everyone was happy with the announcement.
Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Jake Berry posted: “The next time you can’t see a doctor, your kids can’t go to school and your train doesn’t turn up, remember, @UKLabour’s plan is to give even more power to those who are trying to hold Britain to ransom.”
Thankfully, Gary Neville was on hand to cooly put him back in his box.
He replied: “Jake can you lot try and do something meaningful in your last year in Parliament.
“You’ve undermined every public sector service yet have the nerve to still try and somehow throw stones at the opposition. You’re the most dysfunctional, inept, ineffective government we’ve ever had.
“You’ve taken away all our trust in parliament and degraded MP’s reputations with a whole generation. The country desperately needs a change!”
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