Strike Action

[Kevin D]

 

 

 

[Kevin D]

On 27/07/2022 at 13:21, Jairzinho said:

Ann Widdecombe looked appalled that Dempsey had the temerity to challenge the absolute guff she was coming out with.

 

The presenter, on the other hand, was simply too dimwitted to deal with the quite obvious shouting in her ear she was getting from the producer to readdress how the show was going. 

 

Genuine contempt.

[Jairzinho]

It was magnificent. 

[DalyanPete]

On 29/07/2022 at 11:48, Creator Supreme said:

I remember deregulation. Where I lived in Huyton, we suddenly had the MPTE buses rebranded as Merseybus. Then Crosville added a couple of extra bus services to the same routes (with very ratty old buses they'd bought cheap from around the country).

 

Then we had Liverbus, Liverline, Fareway and the like popping up, all using old MPTE stock and depots some of the redundant bus drivers had bought up.

 

Tickets got a little cheaper for a while. Then the reality of running businesses set in, the costs of keeping knackered old buses going, fares rose and kept rising, within a couple of years the smaller bus companies had either closed or been bought out by Merseybus / MTL or North Western.

 

Next thing you know, there are less buses, higher prices as there's no competition and parts of Merseyside all but abandoned by the remaining bus companies!

 

Now there are less services than ever, prices are silly, and the remaining companies are taking the piss out of their staff!

 

Fuck you Thatcher!

That is exactly how it played out.

[Harry's Lad]

On 29/07/2022 at 09:48, Creator Supreme said:

I remember deregulation. Where I lived in Huyton, we suddenly had the MPTE buses rebranded as Merseybus. Then Crosville added a couple of extra bus services to the same routes (with very ratty old buses they'd bought cheap from around the country).

 

Then we had Liverbus, Liverline, Fareway and the like popping up, all using old MPTE stock and depots some of the redundant bus drivers had bought up.

 

Tickets got a little cheaper for a while. Then the reality of running businesses set in, the costs of keeping knackered old buses going, fares rose and kept rising, within a couple of years the smaller bus companies had either closed or been bought out by Merseybus / MTL or North Western.

 

Next thing you know, there are less buses, higher prices as there's no competition and parts of Merseyside all but abandoned by the remaining bus companies!

 

Now there are less services than ever, prices are silly, and the remaining companies are taking the piss out of their staff!

 

Fuck you Thatcher!

There's quite a dangerous road by us that has a series of bends with 3 bus stops on either side.

 

When deregulation happened it was like Wacky Races for buses with them overtaking buses who were already at a bus stop to get the passengers at the next stop.

I nearly had a couple of 'head ons' myself as did many others on our estate.

Miraculous no-one was killed really.

 

Before deregulation we had Ribble buses with no issues but then they disappeared and people were left with an unreliable service that was cutting routes left, right and centre.

 

They even stopped picking up by the pensioners flats leaving the old dears no way of getting to the shops or to the bus station at the Town Centre to get buses into Liverpool, Ormskirk etc.

 

Deregulation was a stupid idea, passengers are second to profit and it doesn't work.

 

[Kevin D]

43 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

It was magnificent. 

Haha.

 

Her facial reactions are full blown Pep screaming that’s two!/ Vince McMahon overacting when Austin did any of his Zamboni stuff.

 

Absolutely outraged.

[Kevin D]

2 hours ago, Jairzinho said:

It was magnificent. 

I’m still laughing at her face.

 

What a perfect encapsulation of this country in this moment.

[Creator Supreme]

I live on Canny Farm now, the buses Services are shite. We have 2 reliable services to town (12 & 13), apart from that woeful.

 

If you want to get from Canny Farm to Huyton on Sundays, or before 8 o'clock and after 6 o'clock Monday to Saturday, you have to get 2 buses. For a 2 mile or so journey.

 

The same to get to Prescot (where my kids Senior school is), Kirkby etc.

 

It's a fucking wasteland for public transport, and it's not on!

[elvis]

6 hours ago, Creator Supreme said:

I live on Canny Farm now, the buses Services are shite. We have 2 reliable services to town (12 & 13), apart from that woeful.

 

If you want to get from Canny Farm to Huyton on Sundays, or before 8 o'clock and after 6 o'clock Monday to Saturday, you have to get 2 buses. For a 2 mile or so journey.

 

The same to get to Prescot (where my kids Senior school is), Kirkby etc.

 

It's a fucking wasteland for public transport, and it's not on!

Is this in Newcastle?

 

[Jairzinho]

 

[Jairzinho]

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Grant Shapps, saying the quiet bit out loud - that the cunts really are aiming to set workers' rights back over 100 years, to a time before the right to rest on your rest days.

 

[Creator Supreme]

47 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Grant Shapps, saying the quiet bit out loud - that the cunts really are aiming to set workers' rights back over 100 years, to a time before the right to rest on your rest days.

 

Just seen that myself Angry, I want to tear the little cunts head off along with the gobshite from Avanti who peddled the unofficial strikes bollocks!

 

If people who work for a living aren't fuming at this kind of shit, they should check themselves for a pulse! I'm fucking raging at this!

[Bjornebye]

[Arniepie]

2 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Grant Shapps, saying the quiet bit out loud - that the cunts really are aiming to set workers' rights back over 100 years, to a time before the right to rest on your rest days.

 

So basically unions shouldn't be telling people they are allowed a day off?

I really hope these strikes spread nationwide 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Arniepie said:

So basically unions shouldn't be telling people they are allowed a day off?

I really hope these strikes spread nationwide 

In fairness, if workers started resting on their rest days, the rail companies would have to hire enough people to run a fucking railway and that would eat into their profits. We can't be having that.

[Arniepie]

8 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

In fairness, if workers started resting on their rest days, the rail companies would have to hire enough people to run a fucking railway and that would eat into their profits. We can't be having that.

It's mad how much power people who just do their actual jobs have got.

[Creator Supreme]

Would it be worth ASLEF trying to sue Avanti for defamation of the union and its members? Throw Grant Shapps into the mix too (or into a cement mixer, I'm not fussy)?

[DalyanPete]

Any of this discussion stretches back to what a devious bitch Thatcher was.

Want to buy anything? Have a store credit card.

Need a house? Right to buy your council house.

Now you owe loads of money but don't worry.

Getting twatted by bosses at work, fight for your rights. Go on strike. Oh hang on you now you owe loads of money, we will repossess your house. Monthly credit card bill, send in the bailiffs.

A party of cunts, led by the biggest cunt but as a plan to take on the unions it was brilliant.

[johnsusername]

Had an argument with the mother in law. According to her all these train drivers are on £80,000 and we shouldn't be giving them any more money. I said it wasn't just the drivers but other staff like track engineers, station operations, and maybe if normal workers have decided that their only course of action is strike then maybe we should believe them, and not the shareholders who are taking in £millions of profit.

 

She doesn't even get the fucking train. She retired early on a nice early 2000s pension after coining it during the property boom. Tory.

 

Also, I don't know how much train drivers earn, but considering they're responsible for the safety of thousands of people every day then maybe they deserve an appropriate wage.

[Mudface]

2 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

Also, I don't know how much train drivers earn, but considering they're responsible for the safety of thousands of people every day then maybe they deserve an appropriate wage.

That's the thing that gets me- I want people operating hundreds of tons of machinery carrying hundreds of passengers to be well paid, well trained and not run into the ground. 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

18 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

Had an argument with the mother in law. According to her all these train drivers are on £80,000 and we shouldn't be giving them any more money. I said it wasn't just the drivers but other staff like track engineers, station operations, and maybe if normal workers have decided that their only course of action is strike then maybe we should believe them, and not the shareholders who are taking in £millions of profit.

 

She doesn't even get the fucking train. She retired early on a nice early 2000s pension after coining it during the property boom. Tory.

 

Also, I don't know how much train drivers earn, but considering they're responsible for the safety of thousands of people every day then maybe they deserve an appropriate wage.

There's a few million like her, wok the lottery by buying the ticket with our futures. We need to out-vote these cunts.  Chuck their postal votes in the bin, anything goes.  

[A Red]

Is it true that engineers have to work in teams of 9 and cant be split? Or engineers cant be called to travel 500 yards to another station if its shorthanded?

[elvis]

46 minutes ago, A Red said:

Is it true that engineers have to work in teams of 9 and cant be split? Or engineers cant be called to travel 500 yards to another station if its shorthanded?

Where did you read this ?

[A Red]

Just now, elvis said:

Where did you read this ?

T'internet, its quite widely reported. Mainly about taking 9 people to change a lightbulb, which did seem a bit too silly to mention.