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Nick Lynch, transport workers' general secretary,

is the worst nightmare of media interviewers and politicians,

impeccable working-class credentials.

They like to denounce anyone on the left as a bourgeois lovey after all.

Principal, a thorough grasp of detail.

Carmen of fire, but doesn't take any nonsense.

Unafraid to turn the table.

That's why, in part, he's become such a sensation.

But what else is struck a chord?

Because after 13 years of austerity, an unprecedented squeeze in living standards,

driven, of course, by falling real wages, as well as an onslaught on the welfare state,

collapsing public services, we could go on.

There's a sense of, well, at least someone standing up and fighting back,

rather than just sitting there and getting kicked in the teeth

repeatedly without saying a word.

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