My point exactly Eddy. Pre-election the Conservative party were severely criticizing Gordon Brown and the Labour party for not immediately intervening to bring the strike to an end.
Now they're in power, they're doing exactly what the then Labour Government did and try to bring both sides together for 'talks'. No more tough talk. Two quotes spring to mind;
"Stupidity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results" and
"Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose!"