what advice would you give RMT unioin

[Returnofrros]

Did not realise Cobra had left. Sorry about that as he was often a positive voice.

Cobra says hi and hopes you are well.

[jdfc]

Yup,Im happier to pay higher taxes to get rid of tory rule in westminster and boris the liar.Doubt sturgeon be much better but she can be removed easily enough.
Your right though everyone is entitled to an opinion,the key is to respect this and not assume you are always right and that applies to all of us.

Your not paying higher tax to get rid of Boris, it’s paying for perverted schooling, failed ferries etc etc

[eric_sinclair]

Your not paying higher tax to get rid of Boris, it’s paying for perverted schooling, failed ferries etc etc

Same thing really.
Both leaders a shambles and labour weaker than a big weekend envelope.
Hence Boris cud probably kill someone and get back in.
Sad times

[BCram]

Same thing really.
Both leaders a shambles and labour weaker than a big weekend envelope.
Hence Boris cud probably kill someone and get back in.
Sad times

Don't you think it's the ideas that they promote that is what we should be considering? I understand that Conservative policies are anathema to many but equally socialist policies alienate an almost equal number of people and the SNP policy of independence has never had a first past the post acceptance rate of more than about 35% of the total Scottish electorate.

[eric_sinclair]

Don't you think it's the ideas that they promote that is what we should be considering? I understand that Conservative policies are anathema to many but equally socialist policies alienate an almost equal number of people and the SNP policy of independence has never had a first past the post acceptance rate of more than about 35% of the total Scottish electorate.

In normal circumstances yes,but the pandemic showed some can't be trusted and don't care about joe public.

[BCram]

In normal circumstances yes,but the pandemic showed some can't be trusted and don't care about joe public.

I think you are right. Lockdown was a policy for the electorate and some politicians and civil servants acted as though it did not apply to them. Focus has been on Boris but there were so many breaches of the rules it is hard not to think that they did not believe they applied to them.

[Returnofrros]

I think you are right. Lockdown was a policy for the electorate and some politicians and civil servants acted as though it did not apply to them. Focus has been on Boris but there were so many breaches of the rules it is hard not to think that they did not believe they applied to them.

They acted with "no fear" as they knew they had nothing to be fearful about.

Lockdown was about negating responsibility to mad scientists in UK and about showing who was boss in Scotland.

We had a "pandemic" policy which was abandoned in favour of authoratarion rule......and the stupid public complied .....politicians werenae so stupid.🙄

[islaydarkblue]

Now to get back on the topic.
It was stated in last Sunday’s Sunday Times newspaper that the General Secretary of the RMT receives and annual pay and pension package of £163,500 while a GP partner in an average practice earns £115,000 per annum.
GP partners are classed as self employed and will have to make their own pension contributions from their annual salary.
The question is who gives value for their annual salary package.
The GP who is trying to his patients life or the General Secretary of the RMT who is hell bent on preserving outdated and inefficient working practices throughout the U.K. railway network and is happy to bring the country to a standstill by telling his union members to go on strike

[islaydarkblue]

Your not paying higher tax to get rid of Boris, it’s paying for perverted schooling, failed ferries etc etc

Don’t get me started on failed and clapped out Scottish Government owned ferries including a SG civil servant from the ferries unit who
does not have a clue about life on the Scottish islands served by Calmac ferries.

[grantzer]

Now to get back on the topic.
It was stated in last Sunday’s Sunday Times newspaper that the General Secretary of the RMT receives and annual pay and pension package of £163,500 while a GP partner in an average practice earns £115,000 per annum.
GP partners are classed as self employed and will have to make their own pension contributions from their annual salary.
The question is who gives value for their annual salary package.
The GP who is trying to his patients life or the General Secretary of the RMT who is hell bent on preserving outdated and inefficient working practices throughout the U.K. railway network and is happy to bring the country to a standstill by telling his union members to go on strike

First off a union general secretary does not tell anyone to go on strike, the union ballots its members who then decide on industrial action.

Comparing salaries is a great idea. How is it that someone who does a completely different job to someone else gets paid less than that other person? It's ridiculous,everyone should be paid exactly the same, like with erm........communism.

But if we are gonna do this.... Boris earns 175k a year,gets at least 2 free houses, a car,security detail,claims pretty much everything on expenses and had his downing street flat decorated with gold wallpaper.

Where is the value from this? Surely a GP partner should be earning more than that?

I would argue we also get more value from bus drivers, train drivers, bin men,nurses, firemen,police,ferry drivers, posties,dentists,and many many others. Surely they all should at least have the same as the PM??

And if they make mistakes,or break the law, we should ask how many big calls they got right,say all of them regardless of all the mistakes,and let them carry on