Another rail strike announced this afternoon for 13 August.

[Talksport]

Re: Another rail strike announced this afternoon for 13 August.

Rail workers paid for 2yrs doing feck all, and they expect a ridiculous pay rise. Feck em!

[splott parker]

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Rail workers paid for 2yrs doing feck all, and they expect a ridiculous pay rise. Feck em!

I despair.

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

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I despair.

I despair too mate. The race to the bottom comes to mind here
Spedger

[JamesWales]

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I don't care about the man one way or the other but come on Tuerto, how can you claim it is right wing media making the decision when a labour leader sacks a labour shadow cabinet minister for breaching labour shadow cabinet rules? I honestly cannot follow that. :hehe:

Maybe he just wants to wind up Angela? :shrug:

Because thats how contemporary left wing logic works.

We are correct.
We must be correct.

Anyone who doesn't agree by default is wrong and to not see it, they must be coerced or deceived by something.

That coercion is the evil right wing media, deceiving people. That's the only way people can not see things as we see them.

Swap the right wing media for the devil and in terms of a view of the world, many haven't moved on from the salem witch trials.

[nomad blue]

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Rail workers paid for 2yrs doing feck all, and they expect a ridiculous pay rise. Feck em!

Assuming you're alluding to furlough/covid, weren't the trains still running?

[Tuerto]

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Because thats how contemporary left wing logic works.

We are correct.
We must be correct.

Anyone who doesn't agree by default is wrong and to not see it, they must be coerced or deceived by something.

That coercion is the evil right wing media, deceiving people. That's the only way people can not see things as we see them.

Swap the right wing media for the devil and in terms of a view of the world, many haven't moved on from the salem witch trials.

Stop talking total bollocks jimbo. The right wing media are incredibly influential in this country. They can make or break a government, and they don't like workers sticking up for themselves. Starmer is pandering to them. You'd think that the person he had sacked had been hanging about school gates with a puppy and a bag of sweets the way supporting workers is treated in this country by the right. He was sacked for saying that rail workers deserve a fair deal, opposed to the government that starmer is supposed to be opposed to! He's a massive wanker, a coward, and he's doing the right wingers bidding for them.

[JamesWales]

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Stop talking total bollocks jimbo. The right wing media are incredibly influential in this country. They can make or break a government, and they don't like workers sticking up for themselves. Starmer is pandering to them. You'd think that the person he had sacked had been hanging about school gates with a puppy and a bag of sweets the way supporting workers is treated in this country by the right. He was sacked for saying that rail workers deserve a fair deal, opposed to the government that starmer is supposed to be opposed to! He's a massive wanker, a coward, and he's doing the right wingers bidding for them.

I agree with some of that (although its nonsense to say workers are treated badly by "the right" - the minimum wage was increased far more by the current government, and they also tend to actually get more workers in work..but I digress..) but a Labour leader just sacked a Labour MP for breaking party rules. You turning that into an attack on "the right" sounds like something from Pravda in the 1950s.

Not everything must be viewed entirely through the very imperfect prism of left and right.

[life on mars]

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Love the outrage as a matter of interest who will Labours voters vote for if Sir Bier is all in but name a Tory ?

Angela's love kitten was a bit of a lose cannon and the face of the Corbynista 's .. I can see him and Angela running this country very soon ,could be the first couple to be the leader and deputy leader of our glorious Labour party...

[Its been emotional]

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Transport for Wales train drivers will not be on strike so trains will run as normal in Wales as far as the driving side of it is concerned 👍

[life on mars]

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Transport for Wales train drivers will not be on strike so trains will run as normal in Wales as far as the driving side of it is concerned 👍

Fecking heroes to a man , greedy bloody English overpaid train drivers . Send our lads across the bridge to show them how to work instead of this spiteful industrial action by a group that are very well paid and enjoy fabulous work conditions and healthy pensions ,unlike those people on far less that are effected and need trains to get to work ..

[Tuerto]

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I agree with some of that (although its nonsense to say workers are treated badly by "the right" - the minimum wage was increased far more by the current government, and they also tend to actually get more workers in work..but I digress..) but a Labour leader just sacked a Labour MP for breaking party rules. You turning that into an attack on "the right" sounds like something from Pravda in the 1950s.

Not everything must be viewed entirely through the very imperfect prism of left and right.

It is an attack on the right, it's an attack on starmer, who is right wing, and his cosying up to the right wing press, because he doesn't want to be obliterated by them. C'mon Jimbo, even you get that!

[JamesWales]

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It is an attack on the right, it's an attack on starmer, who is right wing, and his cosying up to the right wing press, because he doesn't want to be obliterated by them. C'mon Jimbo, even you get that!

Fascists! Fascists Everywhere!

I don't view it like that no...most don't.