Election Year or Fear!

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Lol! I probably deserved your initial retaliation for taking the piss in the first place, but I’ve no idea what my ‘softly we surrender attitude’ means. What/who was I meant to be getting these ‘corruptable young minds’ to ‘surrender’ to?

You were talking about rates of pay and it was actually that which I was referring to when I said I have no idea how they compare.

As regards train drivers…they do seem to me to have a hell of a lot of responsibility for an enormous number of lives which makes me reluctant to refer, as you did, to them as ‘plebs’.
Of course you’re probably correct that the job is becoming increasingly automated however I’d remind you that, on those relatively rare tragic occasions when there is a serious crash, ‘driver error’ seems to be a common first port of call amongst accident investigators.

RA, Thicky is just parroting what Trice reform **** has been saying on social media, that defending what Farage earns, saying he "works" hard, whilst train drivers don't.

I mean fancy an MP from a private company that supposedly backs the "ordinary working" man, attacking a group of workers? Thicky hasn't a clue what a train drivers job entails (actually he hasn't a clue full stop) and all this talk of salary comparisons just demonstrates how Thicky, a supposed flag bearer for "liberal" capitalism has absolutely no idea about these matters.

If one was going to start attacking ludicrous salaries, I'd have thought professional footballers and especially those in the premier league would be the place to start, I mean how many GCSE's are required to earn £100k plus a week?

If the value and complexity of a job equalled its salary then there are plenty of roles that society depends upon which warrant more than say an investment banker, a TV presenter Journalists and indeed many Managers and CEO's!

Anyway one wonders, if driving a train was that simple for the pay, why Thicky when mining ceased didn't go for it?