The truth is that I have been representing working people for 40 years and 90% of the time we have been able to conclude satisfactory solutions.
"I've been representing working people for 40-odd years," he says, "as a shop steward, as an official and as a general secretary, and I've never yet come across a worker who likes going on strike.
Unions – which used to cudgel Democrats into representing working people's interests – are at their weakest point in decades, and lack the sway they once held at the highest levels of government.
HuffPost suggested to Watt that Republicans have traditionally been known as the party of Wall Street and moneyed interest, whereas Democrats are thought of as representing working people and the middle class.
Much research has focused on persistent changes in neuronal activity (Fuster and Alexander 1971; Goldman-Rakic 1987; Wang 2001; Brody, Hernandez, et al. 2003), which has been interpreted as representing working memory or an enduring process of executive behavioral control.
O'Grady will tell delegates in Brighton on Monday: "We've had the votes, the vote was close but clear and now our job is to get on with representing working people, whichever way they cast their vote, and make sure that they don't pay the price of a Brexit.
