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We can't allow unions to win over rail strikes, UK deputy prime minister says

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Johnson, the bloated hypocrite, has no authority to make dictats to anyone.

His party has been in charge for over 12 years. If the UK is in dire straits, he can't blame the Labour Party.

The diabolical state of the UK economy is on him and his Bullingdon Old Boys' Club of privileged, pampered inherited wealth Fauntleroys, who wouldn't know a day's honest work if it bit them in the family jewels.

The only thing the UK can't afford is another day of this pompous buffoon in office.

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Oh, and look - on exactly the same day he says the UK can't afford to pay rail workers any more, he's ripping up the rule book on what bankers - who caused the global economic disaster in 2008, let's not forget - can get paid, so they can ship it off to the Cayman Islands and not pay a penny's tax on it.

https://inews.co.uk/news/no-10-planning-tear-up-restrictions-city-bosses-pay-cost-of-living-crisis-1696695

He doesn't have the wit to even pretend he's not stuffing his buddies' pockets with lucre.

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This is what happens when you elect nationalist clowns.

Brexit + Covid response + sanctions have already given us an inflationary spiral. The strikes are just turbo-charging it. Expect a re-run of the 1970s.

The UK is the crash test dummy of the post-developed, deglobalised society. Other nations should watch it fall apart (literally, with Indyref 2) and pull back from the brink.

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Yeah, we can't have the workers, the bloody workers, taking profits away from the "poor" stakeholders.

"It is the lowest paid who suffer the most from strike action..."

Are they "the lowest paid" because they don't have unions? Apparently it's time for MORE unions in the evermore Underwater Kingdom and maybe a bit more 'profit sharing' with those who do the actual work. And nothing can make a people rethink their governmental management more than being made paupers by its mismanagement due to their own foolish decisions to believe those 'managers'. Or we can renew our faith in KARMA given the enormous karmic debt the 'British Empire' owes the World...and America, take heed...

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Yet the great unwashed still turn out to vote in these clowns come election time.... Can't help those who won't help themselves.

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Look, Dominic Raab, in fact, all parliamentary parties, admittedly through an independent body, awarded themselves, April the 1st, now there's is British irony for you, a 2.7% base salary increase, £2200.

The political establishment is going to have to accept and embrace leading by example.

If Politicians are going to resort to the blame game and enter into a mud slinging contest, it would be wise to look behind and see what going to be launched at them.

MPs to get £2,200 pay rise next month.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60576639

It would be unfair and missing the point to blame the RMT for this strike.

The members of the RMT, the rail industry workforce voted to take what they feel to be legitimate industrial action.

Government must convince the nation as much as the rail workforce, who will ultimately shape the sectors long term future to change course.

I feel, worryingly trust evaporated long before Covid.

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We can't allow unions to win over rail strikes, UK deputy prime minister says

But he can allow energy companies to make enormous profits without having to pay higher taxes-something is wrong in perfidious Albion…

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It was the workers who voted in these clowns.... What were they expecting?

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The whole UK rail network/system need huge change.

Ticket office staff need to move out onto the concourse.

To bring customer service into the 21st century.

To aid customers to fully take advantage of ticket automation.

There is no need for ticket offices outside of dedicated aid for disabled customers. Even then disabled customers can be supported with dedicated staff.

The car parks are preposterously over priced, a system of pre-booking parking spaces seemingly ignorant of the technology available.

The network management supervision hopelessly fragmented, inflexible to adopting a more focused customer orientated approach.

And now strikes!?

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"We can't allow, I'm afraid, the unions, in this very militant way that they've proceeded, to win this argument because it will only hurt the poorest in our society,"...

Since when have Tories ever spared a thought for the poorest in society? The crocodile tears shed by comfortably numb Tories for the millions of unfortunate folk, left-behind by "greed is good" government is all eyewash and won't distract the unions from demanding a bigger slice of the corrupt fat cats' cake for their hard-working members. More militancy from the unions and workers of the UK is the only way to make "them" eat a dish of their own "oven-ready" austerity.

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The head of national rail makes £600000 a year plus 10 % bonus.

And he is claiming greed by the workers.

I wonder what perks he gets?

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Rail strikes in the UK have had quite an impact on the environment. Aside from moving people to cars, they have also moved freight (and the postal services) on to the roads. Once it has moved, fearing an unreliable service, it tends to stay on the roads.

Incidentally, train drivers earn from £24k/4m JPY (starter) to £65k/10m JPY (experienced) pa. The national average for train drivers is £54k/8m JPY. I wonder what the rate is in Japan?

All strikes should be judged on their own merits, but I find it hard to support anyone who earns more than me, if they go on strike for more cash. Experienced train drivers earn more than the average UK salary. My income has gone down courtesy of Brexit restrictions, the collapse of sterling at the referendum and the Covid lockdowns. I don't see why anyone should demand that their income should be protected from going down, when everyone else is suffering, just because they can hold people to ransom by striking. In a poorer country, everyone should expect to have less cash.

@buchailldana The unfair wage pyramid is global and certainly needs fixing. Reducing the pay of a small number of overpaid senior staff would not bump up the staff of the rest of the workforce by much, but it would be fairer.

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