Strikes

They don't have airports that far North? Maybe the planes can't handle the electromagnetic field that close to the North Pole...

 

When I looked online there was a variety of different railcards, such as ones for students. Any initial outlay, if you find a card that fits your category, might be worth it for the discount you receive and I noted a lot of it comes down to the time you travel as well. The more flexible someone can be the better.

 

Apparently not the flights he wanted, he had to travel down to Heathrow.

 

I just don't get it tbh. Governent bribes costing the country billions, shareholders creaming off millions, pretty much every public service fcked, the worst it's ever been bar the war. They won't phone in with angst towards any of that, yet the same ppl become irrational towards workers wanting to get decent pay and conditions after a decade of austerity in which we were apparently all in it together - except we weren't.

 

In essence, it's a leisure travel product. They try to keep you off the trains during peak times Monday to Friday, unless you're Forces when you can use it most times. Just as an honest, non-snide or sarky question - as a senior citizen do you use booking offices, or do you book everything online?

 

It's fcking mental mate. I don't know enough about it to say. I'd guess it's privatisation? Or the result of an outdated rail infrastructure and the need for a proper integrated transport system, but someone else probably knows more.

 

I do everything online, but I feel more like I've been forced that route in todays world. What do I mean by that....I've always preferred to use a ticket office, I haven't got a clue at ticket machines, so yes absolutely that fits the rail workers arguments of keeping the ticket offices open, yup I get it, I really do.

However, I also prefer to use cash, but a lot of new places now are actually refusing to accept cash, I could give examples but won't bore you.......but I've had to face the modern dilemma of change, so sadly, as much as I hate it, the reality is change is going to happen whether I or the railworkers like it or not.

It's actually another reason I've got pissed off using the car, because car parks are turning to payment apps, and yes my kid will show me and it's probably easy, but people need to look it from my point of view, I'm old now and I feel this technology is discrimative in nature, because they are asking me to accept something that I feel is alien to me. But it is what it is and I've just got to get on with it.

Edit. I forgot to add also I've seen reports of online fraud going up in older people, because they are easier to dupe with this technology. so another reason you become cautious as an older person.

 

This.

There's a narrative spun by the establishment that there's only a certain amount to go around, and that others will have to suffer if (*insert demographic) have too much.

That's a con trick spun by those who hoard the wealth for themselves.

 

Just a daily reminder after watching PMQs and Andrew Bowie on Politics Lives parroting the line "Union paymasters" about the train strikes whenever a question about nurses or Michelle Mone is asked: the RMT is NOT affiliated to the Labour Party, nor has been for decades. Unlike the Russians and the Tories:

Russian donors have given £3.5 million to the Conservative party (theferret.scot)

 

Question for anyone...

If you go on strike, are you required to stand on a picket line by the union or can you just stay at home.

Reason I ask, border staff are now to strike over Christmas the same as the railway workers, so will they stay at home without pay. How is a picket line organised?

 

Can't speak for Border Force, but RMT doesn't require you to stand on a picket line, it's 100% voluntary. Can't imagine any picket lines being formed on Christmas Day and Boxing Day as all the stations on the network are closed anyway.

 

It's weird trains not running on Boxing Day as most other years it's a day of a full set of football fixtures.

 

They do in Scotland, and they did when I first joined the railways (I won't say how long ago that was). But as I recall, it was British Rail, not the unions, that closed down the network in order to do maintenance work. The privatised railways just carried on the practice.

 

Oh, and Merseyrail - forgot about them as they are self-contained nowadays and publicly-owned, and they're not on strike as the government couldn't interfere with their negotiations.

 

Yeah I was trying to think back to when I was a kid and how I got to football matches, so that must be it then, they ran back then, before I had a motorbike then a car.

 

Public transport in London is awful on boxing day and has been for years.
Stopped taking my girls to boxing day games because of the nightmare journey home with no tubes and a train service that stopped at 6pm.

 

They should probably form one on the beach in Dover.

 

Unite Union under investigation by the police for corruption. Surely not true, only the Tories do that.