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Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by Billy Death, Apr 27, 2017.

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General election

  1. Conservative

    28 vote(s)
    57.1%
  2. Labour

    16 vote(s)
    32.7%
  3. Libdem

    2 vote(s)
    4.1%
  4. Other

    3 vote(s)
    6.1%
  1. Billy Death

    Billy Death Well-Known Member

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    Private for years & they coming out on strike again.
     
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  2. rooch 3

    rooch 3 Well-Known Member

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    I went to live down there Billy in 1975 and when I left in 1999 they were producing twice as much steel with a third of the staff my mates all took sleeping bags to work there flasks books and there sandwiches and got woke up to go home again at 6.30, no idea why the works were not doing very well but you can guarantee that's what it will be like again in a couple of years because Labour under Corbyn has learnt f uck all.
     
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  3. rooch 3

    rooch 3 Well-Known Member

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    This might be a genuine reason though mate nowt wrong with that.<ok>
     
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  4. Burly Hurley

    Burly Hurley Well-Known Member

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    Its a wierd one that one Billy.

    Can't quite get my head around it.

    It appears to me that the unions are against something that's already in place in so many other places.

    The commuter lines down into Kings X and Moorgate have had 1 driver / no guards for years. I don't understand it myself.

    What I do see is an incalitrant union and an incompetent management making a bloody pig's ear of everything and treating Joe Public like ****.

    Someone living down south of the Thames may come on and enlighten us on the details.
     
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    Must admit mate beats me as well although I would prefer 2 people to be honest.
     
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  6. Burly Hurley

    Burly Hurley Well-Known Member

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    Which 2 do you mean Rooch? The unions and the management?

    I think the management have incompetently boxed themselves into a ridiculous situation and now the government are making them stand their ground and not back down to the union.

    As for the union, **** knows. There are single manned trains all over the damn place.
     
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  7. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    I think the fact that Corbyn is even discussing renationalising energy and rail is utterly ridiculous to be honest, the fact is, the biggest business deals this country has ever made, need to be done. Hundreds of them. Brexit isn't a little project that needs signed off on his way to Veganfest 2017 is it? It's the biggest thing he'd ever be involved in as PM, it's gargantuan and he's talking about ****ing railways.

    Useless ****ing tramp.
     
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  8. rooch 3

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    I sort of agree with both mate I am saying just I would feel safer with a guard as well as a driver but its hard to see their argument when there is loads of trains running without one.
     
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  9. rooch 3

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    Corbyn, Moyes, Tackety boot just seem to go together for me.
     
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    I don't ever remember 2 rail guys on my train back in 94. As for safety, a guard on the train might have meant just 1 more wasted death at Potters Bar. A guard wouldn't have made any difference.
     
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    I thought he was there to see people safely on and off before the train left.
     
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  12. Burly Hurley

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    There are cameras along the platform and big screens in front of the drivers cockpit or whatever they call it.

    There used to be station masters on the platforms for that sort of thing as well but the smaller stations don't even have them anymore either.

    The likes of Biggleswade, Arlesey, Knebworth haven't had them in a long long time. But Finsbury Park still does. Same line. Go figure.
     
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    They must of changed since i went to uni in 1971<laugh>
     
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  14. Burly Hurley

    Burly Hurley Well-Known Member

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    <laugh><laugh> I think quite a lot's changed since then mate.

    Pounds, shilling and pence for one ;)
     
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  15. J๏E..

    J๏E.. The King of Hearts

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    So you see this woman as the deliverer?

    I see this woman as the one that backed remain, sat on the outside, saying nowt knowing one way or the other she would win. Watched her boss collapse after the leave victory knowing that was the time to move.

    I see her as an upper class, devious piece of ****, leading a party of pocket liners, who will do anything to keep their sense of power and the pounds rolling in. She is everything I despise in life politically, a helmet head on a mission for self fulfillments who couldn't even argue her corner when put on the spot yesterday by a a simpleton as she would have seen her, with learning disabilities..

    Horrible woman, horrible choice this election..
     
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  16. J๏E..

    J๏E.. The King of Hearts

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    These official figures or just your point to prove?
     
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  17. rooch 3

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    Ha ha Joe the population was only 63,000 then I just made the 200,000 up it was more like 27,000 worked at the works from all over the place the rest is true.
     
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  18. Burly Hurley

    Burly Hurley Well-Known Member

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    You could've blagged it Rooch. Said the number was high because of Labours inflation figures.
     
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  19. J๏E..

    J๏E.. The King of Hearts

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    Should have been a politician mate..<ok>
     
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    J๏E.. The King of Hearts

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    Yeah, everything that is wrong in my eyes, fake people with a agenda that suits them..<doh>
     
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