I will add, we shouldn't confuse airline staff with border control, even if border control are on strike, airline staff will still be working and these days that is all the help you need.
I don’t want to live in your world. What a cold hard place, where no one gives a **** about anyone but themselves. We used to look after people in this country; we used to look after each other. Then we sold our soul, sacrificed everything that was once good about our country on the alter of the Thatcherite Free Market. After all the sacrifices our grandparents generation made, what a ****ing mess we’ve left for our children and grandchildren. Ours has been a generation of heartless, soulless, selfish, materialistic ****s tbh. At least when I cross over to the other side, I can look St Peter in the eye and say, hand on heart, with absolute conviction, that not once, not even for a second, did I ever even think about voting Tory.
Like I say, It's years since I've flown, but last time I flew my connecting flight was cancelled once I got to Heathrow. Nobody knew what was going on or how we would get to our destination until we asked someone. The replacement flight then had its gate changed three times and again, without having someone to ask a lot of people would have had trouble finding the right gate. At a hell of a lot of train stations now the only people you have to ask when something unexpected happens is the people in the ticket office.
What you going on about mate lol. When I complained about cashless, I was virtually not just told but forced to get on with it. I had to accept it is how the younger generation do things now. Time has move on I'm afraid, we can either spend our last few years scourning it or adapt to change. I agree absolutely the world is materialistic, you talk about the Thatcherite Free Market, but that's only akin to the EU, the big brother where once in every 50 years you might get a say in it, only found recently to be harbouring corruption, much like anything that involves that thing called money. You're pointing your gun again at the wrong person, I'm merely laying the bare facts of life in front of you. Much like @Treble suddenly pretending to care about the Irish, yet them rail travel fookers don't matter if the trains aint running, people don't matter if they might die because an ambulance can't get to them on time. Oh yeah I know, Tory, Tory, Tory, and Labour will fix it all, well excuse me if I don't hold my breath on them doing so. We've been here before bro, in the 70's, you took a battering then, thought you would have learned your lesson the first time.
This scenario is nothing new, I was in Los Angeles and I had problems with my connecting flight to San Fran, that was in the days when people still helped, and people still didn't have a clue - So it was kick brain into gear and think for yourself, I got my flight just as the gate was closing, whether you have computers or people, the outcome will be the same, sometimes you have to use your own brain.
Fck knows what you're on about. It wasn't about caring about the Irish, I highlighted how your infatuation with automation seems all rosy but when you put it into practice it's flawed as highlighted by the Northern Ireland protocol which you were probably championing much like you are now about the airports and trains. For a while I thought you were just joking, maybe just to keep the posts up. But it's probably the fact you feel aggrieved about the need to adapt that you want to pile it on everyone else. Nobody here disagrees about having some degree of automation, probably not even @Archers Road . But unlike you, not everyone deals in absolutes. It's not a binary choice mate. Automation has its place, but it's limited. You seem to live in sunny uplands where everything works like clockwork. As others and I have pointed out, what happens when things don't work like clockwork? Take a look around, every aspect of the public service industry in this country has either been stripped bare or corrupted by 12 years of Tory rule. The NHS, the railways, the police, the justice system, the water supplies, energy companies. All fcked, and your answer is not to hold those responsible accountable for providing that service properly, you think throwing it all on automation, into that broken system, is the answer?
Automation is already in place, get use to it mate. You are using an online facility that is a form of automation, you are trapped here and can't escape, we own you bro, your chains are bound here for life. Do you use the self service at the petrol pumps, remembering a guy use to get paid for filling your car up for you, what about self-checkouts at the supermarket, do you shop and bank online, do you have apps on your phone, do you even own a phone. Your weeping over the Irish brought a tear to my eye..... of laughter.
You poor guys with little money still striking and losing wages because a man in a big house with lots of money who isn't losing a penny, is telling you? Derp
The “tide is turning” against the rail unions, Transport Secretary Mark Harper has claimed as a month of train disruption begins. https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/transport/958899/rail-strikes-whose-side-is-the-public-on Back to work you lazy bone idle ****s
Too many Tory arse-lickers and forelock tugging serfs in this tragic country of ours. Thank **** for the likes of Eddie, telling it like it is...
These figures won't surprise anybody. A huge 2:1 majority of Scots believe the Scottish Government’s proposed new “gender recognition” laws pose a safety risk to women. Tory voters think so by almost 9:1, Lib Dem voters by almost 6:1, and Labour voters by nearly 2:1. https://wingsoverscotland.com/why-do-snp-voters-hate-women/ Labour and SNP voters are weirdos innit.
Labour are taking back control Keir Starmer - a man who voted Remain and campaigned for a second referendum - is cloaking himself in the language of Brexit. His promise of what he calls a '"take back control bill", a planned new law pushing powers away from Westminster, is nothing if not unsubtle. Taking the highly effective slogan of the victorious Brexit campaign and claiming it as his own. Labour needs to win back dozens and dozens of seats that voted Leave and Sir Keir might as well be screaming "I get it" from every rooftop he can clamber on. It does mean critics will ask what he really believes: it might be savvy politics to court Brexit voters, but who is the real Keir Starmer? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64173370
Could Sunak be the next Thatcher and win the public over by smashing the unions? Certainly looks like he'll give it a go Unions could be sued if they do not provide minimum levels of fire, rail and ambulance services, under planned anti-strike laws.
It's a bit of a strange one, but an important one to me. Starmer said a long while back and I remember applauding him for it on here, in that he said he would not put us back into the EU, not those words, but more to say there would not be a second referendum. I thought at the time fair enough. However, I've read since, can't remember where, that he could about turn on this decision, I don't know if there is any truth in that?
I've seen nothing to suggest he'll do that. The Labour heartlands voted to leave. If he tries that once elected he'll finish the Labour party there and then. His speech was the same as usual... No detailed ideas, no spending amounts... Just the Tories have been ****, blah blah blah.
