Maybe it's because I'm a londoner ...
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Morning - arrived at last after 30 mins walk from waterloo station - tube strike day in london... I hate these guys - especially that bob crow bloke ...he appears to think that communism is still a valid option as an ideaology. yeah brothers lets hold out for 5.7% pay rise - instead of the 3% we have been offered.
I don't begrudge the working man a chance to get his fair share... but stikes ought to be a thing of the past by now - totally unacceptable to hold 8m people to ransom, especially when these monkeys basicallly push two buttons - one to go one to stop - and they are paid over 30k a year !
Bring on fly by wire for the tube - leave it to the computers and sack the lot of them.
Oh - except for the 64% of drivers who didn't even vote !! -
sorry - I'll stop now before the white coats arrive
It amazes me that anyone still wants to work in London, let alone live there. I know the salaries are higher but.... Is it really worth it? Salaries are creeping up elswhere now, and many companies allow you to work from home.
I say let the buggers strike, get a job/move elsewhere then they wont have any passengers.
I say let the buggers strike, get a job/move elsewhere then they wont have any passengers.
On the subject of the tube strike, today was almost no different in that each morning I come into work by scooter.
However, the one difference was the immense rise in the number of numpties who decided to drive/ride in today. Instead of being able to pass carefully between lanes of car traffic, some bike riders mistook their bikes for lorries and decided that they were too big to pass through gaps big enough for buses. So I had to stop. Which, much to my surprise, 'caused' the numpty behind to smack into the back of me. Turning round I realised that the reason she couldn't see where she was going was because she had no less than 6 learner stickers flapping all over her bike.
The sooner the tubes are up and running the safer the roads will be!
However, the one difference was the immense rise in the number of numpties who decided to drive/ride in today. Instead of being able to pass carefully between lanes of car traffic, some bike riders mistook their bikes for lorries and decided that they were too big to pass through gaps big enough for buses. So I had to stop. Which, much to my surprise, 'caused' the numpty behind to smack into the back of me. Turning round I realised that the reason she couldn't see where she was going was because she had no less than 6 learner stickers flapping all over her bike.
The sooner the tubes are up and running the safer the roads will be!
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London Transport should dock 'em a weeks wages for this.
Matt.
I think they should sack half of them and then ask the other half if they still want to strike?
Like a lorry driver said on the radio this morning, he gets paid 16K a year and has to turn the wheels!
I like that idea, the IBM principle, sack half your staff and the other half work twice as hard for fear of losing their jobs.
Good work!
Matt.
Gentlemen, gentlemen: this is precisely what you get when the Trotsky Show sniffs that the political establishment, be it in Albion or mainland Europe, is sympathetic in the 'Red Wedge' department.
Hopefully we won't be seeing anything like the return to mass industrial action as per 1979, etc. because fortunately, most members of the public seem to have largely lost their propensity for general strike action and thus, sympathy for the clowns who participate.
Perhaps more folks are waking up to the realisation that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
Hopefully we won't be seeing anything like the return to mass industrial action as per 1979, etc. because fortunately, most members of the public seem to have largely lost their propensity for general strike action and thus, sympathy for the clowns who participate.
Perhaps more folks are waking up to the realisation that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Perhaps more folks are waking up to the realisation that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
Shhhh! Or they'll be after that as well.
Its a bloody disgrace, one of the largest cities on Earth being held ransom by a bunch of glorified Scalextric drivers with a combined IQ equating to their payrise request.
Matt.
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Bring on fly by wire for the tube - leave it to the computers and sack the lot of them.
Absolutely - look at the DLR for instance. It runs like clockwork, with a reliability record of something like 97%. Why? Because it's a driverless system. No strikes, no tannoy calls for the driver to get off his fat a**e in the canteen and join his overdue train, and no jumping red signals and then blaming the ensuing accident on privatisation or lack of investment.
There's plenty more misery to come though, if Red Ken's actions yesterday are anything to go by - he stood around handing out TUC leaflets and slagging off the LU management. Beats me who thought it would be a good idea to elect this pointless weaselly Commie t**t to rule over one of the world's major business centres
Predictably enough, NewtBoy has come out in support of the strikers..
www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=705638&in_review_text_id=679315
As I've said before, getting the hell away from London is the best thing I ever did..
www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=705638&in_review_text_id=679315
quote:The guy's is just a lunatic.. all the prophecies about him are slowly coming true..
Ken: Strike is only way forward
Ken Livingstone today sided firmly with the Tube unions, saying going on strike was the "only way" forward.
He blamed LU management - who he says he will sack when he takes charge of the Tube next year - for refusing more negotiations. "The unions are prepared to go to arbitration ... why are the management refusing to go?"
He also blamed the Government for refusing to "order" LU to return to conciliation service Acas. LU says it cannot afford more than the three per cent on offer and that discussions "are at an end".
The Mayor, speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, described the strike as "an absolute disgrace-This is a completely unnecessary strike".
Questioned on whether the strike was the right thing to do, he replied: "It is the only way they [the unions] have got. They have been negotiating with LU management for months."
When challenged that describing the strike as "unnecessary" while at the same time backing the unions' action was contradictory-Mr Livingstone replied: "It is a contradictory position the management of LU are taking."
Unlike the Tube strike in July which was about safety, today's action is an old-fashioned row over pay and conditions. LU has ordered a three per cent pay rise for its 18,500 employees. The RMT and Aslef unions say that is not enough. They also want better working conditions.
As I've said before, getting the hell away from London is the best thing I ever did..
Bob Crow's words on the subject beggar belief...
The RMT must be smashed if it can't represent and conduct itself within the bounds of reason. Bob Crow's head on a pole, next to NewtBoy's would an adequate outcome of this..
Question I have though is how could this Crow geezer get voted into this leadersip position.. he's clearly nought but a thug with a mandate of questionable integrity and legitimacy.
Thatch should have finished the job, because no-one in power now has the stomach for the sort of battle that they should be engaging in with these Subterranean Choo Choo Shunting Commie Peasants.
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RMT leader Bob Crow told BBC 5 Live this morning that he thought the drivers should get paid £90,000 a year. He was asked how much the drivers earned and replied: "£31,000."
Mr Crow was then asked how much he thought they should earn. He said: "Obviously, I'd like to see that doubled - if not trebled.
The RMT must be smashed if it can't represent and conduct itself within the bounds of reason. Bob Crow's head on a pole, next to NewtBoy's would an adequate outcome of this..
Question I have though is how could this Crow geezer get voted into this leadersip position.. he's clearly nought but a thug with a mandate of questionable integrity and legitimacy.
Thatch should have finished the job, because no-one in power now has the stomach for the sort of battle that they should be engaging in with these Subterranean Choo Choo Shunting Commie Peasants.
>> Edited by CarZee on Wednesday 25th September 12:04
Sadly I am somewhat stuck in london - no real prospect of moving - or indeed working from home - and actually I like working in london ... I work in the west end - and love the glamour - the bars - the whole of theatre land at my feet ... the homeless and the pavement pizza's and phone boxes used as urinals ... mmmm fantastic.
I have recently become a country gent and now commute to town from Haslemere - but whilst the trains are excellent (no complaints except price) the tubes are an absolute shambles.
Ken the newtking - just don't even ask me - but as I live outta town now - I don't get a vote anymore ...
which is frankly wierd.
BTW - how do you call a strike when 64% didn't vote for it .... Same way you get to run the country when only 38% of the population voted for you.
I have recently become a country gent and now commute to town from Haslemere - but whilst the trains are excellent (no complaints except price) the tubes are an absolute shambles.
Ken the newtking - just don't even ask me - but as I live outta town now - I don't get a vote anymore ...
which is frankly wierd.
BTW - how do you call a strike when 64% didn't vote for it .... Same way you get to run the country when only 38% of the population voted for you.
Crow got in on the basis of the fact that he is the only person prepared to fight for their ridiculous requests and he doesnt really care how much money he loses this once great nation in the process.
£90K a year, and how exactly has he come to this preposterous (and thats only because I cant think of a stronger word) figure? Why exactly are tube drivers worth more than nurses or firemen for that matter.
Ken is spot on to sack the spineless management but on the whole its a case of out of the frying pan on that one.
The Tube doesnt work with a union in the way, if they want to be in a union they should go and work somewhere else because the tube is just too precious a commodity to
about with because the undereducated lazy ers fancy going to the Maldives instead of the Seychelles.
Matt.
£90K a year, and how exactly has he come to this preposterous (and thats only because I cant think of a stronger word) figure? Why exactly are tube drivers worth more than nurses or firemen for that matter.
Ken is spot on to sack the spineless management but on the whole its a case of out of the frying pan on that one.
The Tube doesnt work with a union in the way, if they want to be in a union they should go and work somewhere else because the tube is just too precious a commodity to
about with because the undereducated lazy ers fancy going to the Maldives instead of the Seychelles. Matt.
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