Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
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?
You have no idea of what my engineering understandings are. You may think, you are the wikipedia of DCM but sorry, you aint.
As an apprentice, I had to become familiar with all sorts of machinery and have driven locomotives on the sidings shunting and locomotives underground. You don't understand the mechanicals of the equipment and their requirements if you cannot operate them. Fixing. rebuilding them was then part of the education. I would definitely pit my wits against yours on that score.

Trains are fully automated in many parts of the world. To put right RA, driver error, does happen. perhaps the refusal of unions, to implement more tech could have prevented this? Cars have become high tech now, yet the driver himself causes the crash, when said tech is not being used.
No one has has thus given it any thought and comparison to what I said, as to how a train driver, warrents the same pay as a modern day fighter pilot at squadren leader 8 level?

Over paid, for a shoddy service, by Union design.

PS have another swig, kick the cat You'll feel better