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General election

  • Conservative

    Votes: 28 57.1%

  • Labour

    Votes: 16 32.7%

  • Libdem

    Votes: 2 4.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 6.1%
  • Total voters
    49
Burly Hurley said:
As far as rail is concerned, I commuted for 25 years into Kings X.

The improvement in the services was massive in spite of what might be said otherwise.

I might lose 10 to 15 days a year getting into work because of the trains 20 years ago. Maybe 3 or 4 these days with the wrong type of snow <laugh>

I'm not against nationalisation. I'm just against powerful unions ripping apart **** management.

You can nationalise them tomorrow for me. But let management run them, not the unions. And if the management **** up, get new management in.
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Private for years & they coming out on strike again.
 
Billy the Bastard said:
I quite agree with that.
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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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Billy the Bastard said:
Private for years & they coming out on strike again.
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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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Burly Hurley said:
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.
 
rooch 3 said:
Must admit mate beats me as well although I would prefer 2 people to be honest.
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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.
 
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.
 
Burly Hurley said:
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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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.
 
Tel said:
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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Corbyn, Moyes, Tackety boot just seem to go together for me.
 
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rooch 3 said:
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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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.
 
rooch 3 said:
I thought he was there to see people safely on and off before the train left.
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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.
 
Burly Hurley said:
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>
 
Tel said:
I'm not gonna lie, there's a fair chunk of it that I'd like to see happen but at the same time, let's be honest, in 5 years we'd all be sat here saying "But the manifesto said...".

Brexit will dominate the boxes the voter ticks in this general election, and I think every man and his dog knows that Corbyn simply will not bring home any good deals.

I'm still firmly of the opinion that this snap election has been a masterstroke by the PM and I pray (figuratively speaking) for the Labour voter that Corbyn steps down or commits suicide after defeat.
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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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rooch 3 said:
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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You could've blagged it Rooch. Said the number was high because of Labours inflation figures.
 
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