Another rail strike announced this afternoon for 13 August.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

meanwhile.....

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-07-27/...ke-picket-line

[Tuerto]

meanwhile.....

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-07-27/...ke-picket-line

Disgrace. It goes to show that the Right Wing media are the real policy makers in this country.

[splott parker]

Disgrace. It goes to show that the Right Wing media are the real policy makers in this country.

Exactly, the party should have backed him, and the strikers, to the hilt. The Tories are on the ropes, it’s maybe a surprise to some how much sympathy the strikers have from the general public. The Labour Party should be piling it on, it’s so frustrating.

[Dave Blue]

Exactly, the party should have backed him, and the strikers, to the hilt. The Tories are on the ropes, it’s maybe a surprise to some how much sympathy the strikers have from the general public. The Labour Party should be piling it on, it’s so frustrating.

I like Starmer but he’s not reading the country at all is he? All he does is pander to right wing thought in the media.

[Mr Soul '68]

Disgrace. It goes to show that the Right Wing media are the real policy makers in this country.

It's time this government were brought to it's knees. Bring on the winter of discontent!

[A Quiet Monkfish]

It's time this government were brought to it's knees. Bring on the winter of discontent!

it's already on it's knees ..!

[xsnaggle]

Disgrace. It goes to show that the Right Wing media are the real policy makers in this country.

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.

Maybe he just wants to wind up Angela?

[JamesWales]

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.

Maybe he just wants to wind up Angela?

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.

[Tuerto]

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]

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.

[Talksport]

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

[splott parker]

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

I despair.

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

I despair.

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

[nomad blue]

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?