This is tiresome.
How is substituting the CPA for a new CPA not a renegotiation? As pointed out, his proposal goes further than what Leo Varadkar crowed about in June. It would be, therefore, rather stupid for a person to rush around claiming Labour are protecting a special interest group when a minister and very senior member of the party is proposing something that is clearly not in their interest.
However, you went ahead and did this.
Rather than admit you mistake, you now argue that while everything may ‘be on the table’ at the start of a negotiation that some things might remain unchanged at the end of a negotiation.
This is, of course, what happens in every bloody negotiation (excepting those that happen in right-wing fantasy land). Concessions are gained in return for concessions by the other side.
Quinn could easily have said the cutting pay would be counter-productive and would depress domestic demand in the economy further. In fact, this would be sensible economics. He did not and this is probably because Quinn’s voting base are delusional, right-wingers who nevertheless like to convince themselves they are liberals. He has no interest in supporting unions. The idea that the Parliamentary Labour Party are still a party of workers and the lower income stream is balderdash.