Boris for the CHOP..?

[sinkov]

I have every sympathy for the striking rail workers, they have every right to withdraw their labour if they so wish. I've been on a 7 week strike, it's horrendous, quite simply with no wage your money soon runs out, but the bills keep on coming, the mortgage has to be paid and the family fed, so it's no easy decision to go on strike.

What baffles me though is the timing of this one, inflation is going through the roof, energy costs likewise, food prices are rocketing and there are ominous gaps on supermarket shelves, petrol is getting on for £2 a litre, the situation is so bad that food banks are running out of food while overflowing with customers. Yet in this horrific scenario, when you'd think anyone with a reasonably well paid job would be happy to keep their head down and battle on, this lot decide they don't need their wage, they and their families can manage without it.

Really ? Doesn't seem credible to me, as ever, all is most certainly not as it appears, nor as the MSM would have you think it is.

[ClaretinBudapest]

I have every sympathy for the striking rail workers, they have every right to withdraw their labour if they so wish. I've been on a 7 week strike, it's horrendous, quite simply with no wage your money soon runs out, but the bills keep on coming, the mortgage has to be paid and the family fed, so it's no easy decision to go on strike.

What baffles me though is the timing of this one, inflation is going through the roof, energy costs likewise, food prices are rocketing and there are ominous gaps on supermarket shelves, petrol is getting on for £2 a litre, the situation is so bad that food banks are running out of food while overflowing with customers. Yet in this horrific scenario, when you'd think anyone with a reasonably well paid job would be happy to keep their head down and battle on, this lot decide they don't need their wage, they and their families can manage without it.

Really ? Doesn't seem credible to me, as ever, all is most certainly not as it appears, nor as the MSM would have you think it is.

The worst is yet to come Sinkov.From September Russia is applying reverse sanctions to all "unfriendly" nations.Your cheap mans Churchill picked the wrong fight.His opportunism is going to lead to the biggest economic crisis in the UK and the West since WW2.He will keep on smirking and say just let him get on with the job of ruining the country.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I have every sympathy for the striking rail workers, they have every right to withdraw their labour if they so wish. I've been on a 7 week strike, it's horrendous, quite simply with no wage your money soon runs out, but the bills keep on coming, the mortgage has to be paid and the family fed, so it's no easy decision to go on strike.

What baffles me though is the timing of this one, inflation is going through the roof, energy costs likewise, food prices are rocketing and there are ominous gaps on supermarket shelves, petrol is getting on for £2 a litre, the situation is so bad that food banks are running out of food while overflowing with customers. Yet in this horrific scenario, when you'd think anyone with a reasonably well paid job would be happy to keep their head down and battle on, this lot decide they don't need their wage, they and their families can manage without it.

Really ? Doesn't seem credible to me, as ever, all is most certainly not as it appears, nor as the MSM would have you think it is.

When our workers realise they are being pushed to the limit just to survive and then find out their beloved Prime Minister wanted to spaff £150,000 on a tree house for his six month old son, they are going to strike.

Even our criminal barristers have had enough of this goon.

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[ClaretinBudapest]

When our workers realise they are being pushed to the limit just to survive and then find out their beloved Prime Minister wanted to spaff £150,000 on a tree house for his six month old son, they are going to strike.

Even our criminal barristers have had enough of this goon.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...pinionuk_email

I have already spoken to Vlad to get a move on and defeat Ukraine then the two faced,lying,arrogant,lecherous,adulterous charlaton can feck off back to Burlingdon doing speeches for £100k a throw.

[sinkov]

When our workers realise they are being pushed to the limit just to survive]

"The BBC has calculated that the median pay of full-time workers involved in the RMT national rail strike is £38,000."

Yes, it must be a bugger trying to survive on £38,000 a year.

[ClaretinBudapest]

"The BBC has calculated that the median pay of full-time workers involved in the RMT national rail strike is £38,000."

Yes, it must be a bugger trying to survive on £38,000 a year.

The BBC has calculated........and you believe the BBC Sinkov? I honestly thought you had more sense.

[sinkov]

The BBC has calculated........and you believe the BBC Sinkov? I honestly thought you had more sense.

In this case I do CiB, Gove said it was £44k and the BBC, of course, has Fact Checked him and said it's £38k. Bit of an own goal by the Fake News Factory, but I'll take their word for it on this one.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

In this case I do CiB, Gove said it was £44k and the BBC, of course, has Fact Checked him and said it's £38k. Bit of an own goal by the Fake News Factory, but I'll take their word for it on this one.

It won't come as a surprise to you sinkov, but I joined a few of my old Labour party mates on a RMT picket line outside Bolton train station last week. £18,000 was about the average for a 40 hour week if you are employed by Northern. The BBC talk bollox.

[ClaretinBudapest]

It won't come as a surprise to you sinkov, but I joined a few of my old Labour party mates on a RMT picket line outside Bolton train station last week. £18,000 was about the average for a 40 hour week if you are employed by Northern. The BBC talk bollox.

Most people are sympathetic to the rail workers according to surveys.The public are beginning to wake up to the fact that after 12 years of Tory mismanagement of the economy and Brexit, they are much worse off and there needs to be a shift away from the rich get much richer and the workers get poorer.

[sinkov]

It won't come as a surprise to you sinkov, but I joined a few of my old Labour party mates on a RMT picket line outside Bolton train station last week. £18,000 was about the average for a 40 hour week if you are employed by Northern. The BBC talk bollox.

I think your mates on the Picket Line are putting you away mon ami, this is from your Lefty Bible, the Grauniad,

"The average RMT member in rail earns about £33,000, according to the union – taken across every role, from in-house cleaners and onboard crew at train operators, to maintenance roles and signallers at Network Rail.

The average signaller earns £44,000, according to Network Rail. The average pay for a maintenance worker is £31,000, and the overall average for Network Rail RMT members is £36,000.

Salaries around train companies vary. One long-distance train operator pays about £23,000 for a station assistant, £25,000 for a customer service host, £32,000 for a conductor, and £38,000 for a train manager.

Another train operator based in the south-east pays between £21,000 and £30,000 to station staff as a baseline. Higher rates are paid to those working in central London and doing antisocial shifts: staff can earn £3,000 to £4,000 more in London weighting and roughly the same again for flexible shifts. Platform and gateline staff are on the lowest salaries, with ticket office staff earning £24,000 to £26,000 and controllers at the terminals earning about £30,000."

Are the Socialist Worker crew still turning out to picket, proper Commies them lads and lasses, salt of the earth. I won't hear a word against them.