TUC day1: Tory medicine will kill the patient

As predicted 'Mr Angry' Barber came, saw and told us bad things were about to befall us. Tories, he said, tell us 'insulting claptrap', as a 'demolition rather than a coalition government'. Barber defended the right of workers to take action in support of pay, pensions jobs and services. Unions, he said, have to win the intellectual battle, persuading people that Tory medicine was likely to kill the patient . Barber laid down the challenge of "mobilising in every community and every constituency".
Will Congress really pick up that gauntlet?