RMT not winning

[BCram]

Tory ministers have distributed all the available money between themselves and their friends so none left to manage the country effectively unfortunately.

I don't think you are right. Governments of both the left and the right have allowed franchise holders to pay dividends. I think that it might be possible to provide subsidised rail and bus travel but I don't think that our battle ground approach to employee/employer relationships helps. Companies far bigger and more complex seem to be able to run without having the same confrontational industrial relations.
Think the Scottish Government runs rail franchise(s). Don't think they pay any dividend to themselves but I am not sure so happy to be corrected.

[islaydarkblue]

I don't think you are right. Governments of both the left and the right have allowed franchise holders to pay dividends. I think that it might be possible to provide subsidised rail and bus travel but I don't think that our battle ground approach to employee/employer relationships helps. Companies far bigger and more complex seem to be able to run without having the same confrontational industrial relations.
Think the Scottish Government runs rail franchise(s). Don't think they pay any dividend to themselves but I am not sure so happy to be corrected.

The Scottish Government took over the running of Scotrail thinking that they would make a better job of running it that the Dutch company Abelio who they continually complained about.
The Scottish Government ministers have since discovered that it is not as easy to run Scotrail as they previously thought especially as they cannot blame anyone else for Scotrail problems.
The buck stops with them!

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I don't think you are right. Governments of both the left and the right have allowed franchise holders to pay dividends. I think that it might be possible to provide subsidised rail and bus travel but I don't think that our battle ground approach to employee/employer relationships helps. Companies far bigger and more complex seem to be able to run without having the same confrontational industrial relations.
Think the Scottish Government runs rail franchise(s). Don't think they pay any dividend to themselves but I am not sure so happy to be corrected.

Am I wrong in thinking that Tory ministers awarded billions of pounds worth of contracts to companies they and their cronies were associated with during the Covid farce? Am I alsi wrong in thinking that huge amounts of these orders turned out to be either sub standard or never delivered?

They deserve the jail.

[islaydarkblue]

Am I wrong in thinking that Tory ministers awarded billions of pounds worth of contracts to companies they and their cronies were associated with during the Covid farce? Am I alsi wrong in thinking that huge amounts of these orders turned out to be either sub standard or never delivered?

They deserve the jail.

I thought that we were talking about the RMT Union not face masks and other surgical kit

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I thought that we were talking about the RMT Union not face masks and other surgical kit

Strange how discussions sometimes move sideways from one subject to a related one. You should know how that works, every second topic becomes about ferries when you get involved.