Phone **** up, nice considered post and it goes all weird. anyways, I’m out, working year is done. Be safe ya’ll
I don’t like queues me, especially traffic queues, I’ll happily drive an extra 50 miles on a journey just so I’m actually moving, than to sit in a traffic jam.
It's Christmas, people travel for all sorts of reasons at Christmas, including the poor. Who knows how their ticket was funded, and what business is that of ours, thus your suggestion to say someone is not poor if they travel by train is an utterly astonding piece of judgment on your part. I'm flabbergasted.
Seems apt at this time to remember that neither the RMT nor the RCN are affiliated to the Labour Party. Despite the Mail, Sun, Sunak and the ever-increasing Tory news channel called the BBC referring to them as such, they are NOT the labour Party's paymasters.
I suppose the really poor could get on a bus? Takes (what feels like) days to get you there, but cheaper for the impoverished.
I'm a big fan of the trams personally. Relatively cheap, run like clockwork, get straight in and out of town no problem.
I've not seen anyone on here quote the sources you have mentioned, myself I've generally posted links to the Guardian, so let's stop the play on words, and have some straight up answers.... Forget the affiliation bit, how much have the Labour Party received in union donations, from ALL unions, let's say for the period the whole of 2021-todate. Oh and btw, I'm still waiting for you to tell me what train drivers do, but that can wait for now, I don't wish the above question to be drowned out by nonsense.
They could get on a bus absolutely agree, but as you allude to it is generally better to go by train. I'm sure it's not unreasonable on my part either that people may be funded to make a journey, especially if it saved the hosting family from making a long round trip from A to B in a car (and the latter return routine).
Trains absolutley are (or should be) the best way to traverse the country. Especially at this time of year, and especially for those unable to drive these journeys. I've got it right now with my Mum, who is coming to us (on the train) on the 27th. I've told her coutless times to read the details, not the headline. The Headline? Trains on strike between December 24th and 27th = travel chaos. ALL media outlets are guilty of this. The details? Train drivers aren't going on strike, and trains don't run on Christmas Day and Boxing Day anyway. They will be running again on the 27th. So, maybe some minor disruption on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, which people can surely plan around. The media are as guilty as anyone in this scaremongering. More than anyone in fact.
That's not the full story though Chief, people would have planned in advance, Mick Lynch made it quite clear they were not on strike until 6pm on Christmas Eve, so everyone just needed to make an earlier journey in that day. But rail companies are cancelling trains, the earlier trains as a result, because employees and rolling stock would need to be in certain locations at certain times to meet the 6pm deadline, hence that affects journeys that would not have been factored in by the customer, why would they have known that? Edit: So on a long journey, that would make a massive difference to any scheduled earlier trains and nothing to do with the media, because I've not heard them mention the above.
120 actually. I'm a big fan of lynchy. Talks a lot of sense. May draft him in to come break the monopoly in hk
£120k Brill Bobby, at least it's not something I read in the Malice, hope that's not where you got your info from bro.
Lol I've been quoted a few times so thought i would look it up. 84 is his salary. With benefits its estimated at 120k. Worth every penny. He's been great, doesnt throw hissy fits, doesnt get flustered just hits back with facts
