Street Talk: People find out Labour is behind rail strikes
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Street Talk this week comes from Waterloo Station where reporter Patrick Christys tells commuters that Labour is behind the historic 27-day rail strikes crippling London.
The words Labour and strikes go hand in hand. I worked in the motor industry in the 70’s. I remember agitators causing disputes to meet their own ends not to look after the workers.It would end up with 6 week strikes to get an extra 2% which when you worked out what you had lost during the 6 weeks meant you ended up worse off.These strikes were brought about by bullying and intimidation, Maggie ended all that by getting secret ballots. If only she was around today.
"Honest politicians", another great oxymoron.
Politicians are just ordinary people, like you.
Alexander Lovatt I think they were, but I also think that as you get drawn into that system people get dirty hands to achieve goals.Those goals aren't always clear and if you want re-election then some of those goals are going to be in your interest.
The train drivers strike and yet a friend who is one can earn £60k a year. More than I can ever get.
Union / Labour Party greed.
@Phil The Messer, Phil I was a union shop steward in DATA working with Mr G Laird. More than likely you were in primary school. That is why I don't have to resort to personal insults in order to express myself.
@Phil The Messer Try being affected by the strikes when you're on jury duty and NEED the train to get to and from court, because that's the only form of transport with buses that you can reimbursed for. Do you know what happens when you don't show up to court? Do you know the costs to the tax payer when they have to wait for jurors to show up because they can't get a train?
I do, the last lot of strikes got me in the above situation, the drivers and guards are being greedy and simply don't care about the knock on affect of their actions. I wouldn't care up here in the north we don't even have decent trains, we have buses that were converted to trains, we can't even get them things changed and yet drivers are getting pay rise after pay rise when they hold the nation ransom.
Their actions during the lead up to Christmas will affect businesses large and small and will have a knock on affect to the staff, and the businesses tax contributions when their sales are down due to this....and it will be because people will have to buy online because they can't get the train...therefore having an affect on the overall tax contributions of businesses. Then there's the staff who physically cannot get into work because there's not transport, what are they to do?
60k a year is alot of money, why on earth they think they deserve more when the last few years they distributed peoples lives so much, is beyond me. They're the selfish ones who are being pushed by the selfish unions, because the more the train staff make the more the unions can charge for their membership...thus increasing their own revenue. All at the expense of regular folk who rely on the rail service.
@Phil The Messer from someone who worked on the railway as a guard in the 70s we where offered 50p extra an hour to take fares .
We nearly took there hands off .wonder where the worry about safety was then and worrying about what happens to the ticket collecters on the train who's job it was to do that . Lets not kid ourselves we including myself did not give a dame when it come to more money in our pocket. I also supported the miners strike and the steel workers . Did not move any coal or steel by rail over the entire strike .Then we went on strike after them
The miners and steelworkers showed there thanks by loading up the wagons that broke there strike by crossing there picket lines as quickly as possible . To get there bonuses. Thats the last time i supported the Unions.
@@martinmetal7481 my dad was a HGV driver that did deliveries to British Leyland in the 70s. No mobile phones back then. He was supposed to drop off there then pick up a back load. These lazy fucks would be on strike for bullshit things, Teas s bit cold lads all out.
So no drop off, no back load.
The company he worked for in the end wouldn't take eny thing there
Got sick of drivers calling saying they couldn't unload due to strike action.
Did you know that drivers weren't allowed to sleep in there truck's, even if it had a sleeper cab. Union wouldn't allow it...
@Phil The Messer spot on
As a Royal Marine and then as a police officer I was not allowed to strike. My salary was adequate and the system keeping it that way worked.
Perhaps all essential workers should be treated in the same way.
@Cowardly Custard You clearly are completely ignorant of commando soldiers. Perhaps your nom de Pratt is indicative of your moral fibre.
@@robertwatts1213 that's a bad idea opens them up to being abused. Its shit for the forces in that way but having that burden of no say is the burden you have to carry so there is no opportunity for us to be attacked. Its not that guys moral fibre but you need to understand that most people see about as much moral fibre on a politician as they do legs on a snake. They can't be trusted with the power they have now never mind more. But just know a lot of people understand this and appreciate the forces and what you do for us as well as having strength and tenacity to get on with it even when at times you guys are taking shovels of shit to the face. For example when i see our country turn on soldiers that have been sent into messy situations where things got hairy and did not go as planned and rather than the government just taking it on the chin they pie it all on the guys they sent in and jail them and such. Its a bit like when companies put in health and safety regs then need to to get shit done so corners have to be cut while they turn a blind eye but if anything goes wrong then its the workers fault.
@@gooseboy6046 I was treated as well as any unionised business. I repeat, essential workers must be treated as the police and military. Unions are a good thing, until they become above themselves. The NUM in 84 springs to mind.
Robert Watts most people have never heard of a Union, let alone are in one. THAT is the problem. All people should have the power to fight back against employers who would take the piss. Equally we need to make sure employees can’t take the piss, it’s a balancing act right, not an easy one. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it or its not the right thing to do. Obviously people need protection right? Commando? I appreciate any service btw don’t get me wrong but it won’t protect you from bs arguments, I’m sorry. Otherwise nobody could disagree with you ever...
@@TheDevilsAdvocate. I was a member of the Police Federation. As an older and more worldly recruit, I was in my 30s, I persuaded my entire class to join.
I do not understand why you disagree with a similar system for NHS, Fire brigade, transportation and other services upon whom we all rely.
Are you of the opinion that unions ought to be able to risk lives, topple governments or fund political parties ?
If so, justify your position.
labour did this in the 70's so nothing new
So the tories didn't get into power back then.
@@nicholasroberts6441 the tories put a stop to the strike culture that crippled British industry !
@@nicholasroberts6441 lol terrorist loving millennial ,don't you just love um ,they sit around in pubs putting the world to rights then walk out into the cold night and vomit their ideas all over the pavement ,the mess incidentally they leave for others less important than themselves to clean up
@@davefitzpatrick4841 now we have amazon great trade off for the working class. No worker rights zero hours and poverty wages, pissing in a bottle filling boxes
@@rgsnr8702 jobless homeless pennyless in tory britain. First generation poorer than their parents as the boomers burn the world for profit.
labour is unelectable, Corbyn will ruin the country if he gets in.
The country is already ruined or have you been sleeping for the last nine years. Wakey Wakey
The Tories have wrecked the country long time ago remember the 1980s you fucking creature
@@jasonosborne3602 How so?
@Bast Hard So, labour are? Idiot.
@@nicholasroberts6441 Move, then.
Remember what Brown said outside No10 “ There’s no more money left”. If you want all that again Comrade, Vote Labour!
He didn't say it outside No 10 it was written on a piece of paper left in the treasury.. Straight out of the mouth of your lying hero you'll do well as a tory spokesliar.
Since then the tories have added a trillion to the debt.
Each household now owes £74,000 to the pot.
Did you know that we are only one place above Columbia in 49 performing economies and Columbia are bottom.
@Olivia Purcel that was bliar's plan to ruin the labour party. You don't need to be told thatcher endorsed bliar to lead the country.Thatcher endorsed him.
I don't use trains, but this is not disruption it's corruption.
I've seen this spiv before..he's a right-winger. This is pure propaganda!
@@alexharrington6459 He is right though fact is Labour is a disgrace they cover up for grooming gangs.
@@alexharrington6459 I don't really know what a right winger is, but if it's someone who thinks MPs taking bribes is wrong then I must be a right winger
Alex Harrington anything at all that doesn’t fit in with the loony left is going to be a right winger.
@@Johnny-sj9sj Just go have a look at this channel. Created in September 2019, and ALL videos are basically bulshit against Labour. I don't know how anyone can buy this.
It's convenient timing for the RMT (which was kicked out and still isn't affiliated with Labour) to do something like this just BEFORE the elections. It's almost like they WANT to drive people against the Labour party.
Don’t worry corbyn gonna give us all free broadband 😂. 5 years of spending beyond our means and then the country can go back to being bankrupt. Good old Labour, no one mentions the dire mess the 70’s where because of Labour.
I tried telling my kids this but they don't listen they are fixated on the freebies being offered and are afraid of the NHS being privatised
Ive tried telling the younger people what it was like. They don't understand....they can't imagine a time of powercuts in winter or phones only working at certain times or hospitals that were really out of date, old and falling to bits because Labour overspent and ran out of money. This should be on the school cariculum.
J Callaghan we just started recovering from the last incompetent labour government. I for one will be laughing if they get back in, it’s the youngsters that will pay for it. Retirement used to be 60 now it’s 68 it will soon be 70+ 😂
Labour want to nationalise the railways. That means handing them over to the unions.
Jeremy also said they would be "run differently".... Which I assume means running less trains, less often, to pay the higher wages of the staff, who won't need to do much at all because everyone will have stopped using trains because a private helicopter will be cheaper.
One train company on strike and one section of the country suffer.
If labour get in and they nationalised the railway it will be one out all out.
So that 30% cut in your season ticket won't actually be a saving, as the trains will be on strike 30% of the time.
I fairly sure privatisation of the railways isn't allowed under E.U rules so I am not sure why Corbyn is throwing this idea around when he knows Labour have no intention of letting us leave the E.U !?
If labour get in we will go back to the 70 back to the old days and you know what that means
Mad McDonnell is already talking about sympathy strikes, if the Indian rail service goes on strike he wants to introduce powers that the rail service in this country should also go on strike.
Five day week holiday pay sick pay unemployment benefit.One parent works one stays at home to bring up the children look after the bills. Terrible times compared to now where child poverty has doubled in 9 years 300,000 homeless children families destroyed by UC we're livinh a tory utopia.
@Phil The Messer
The 50's, 60's & 70's....
Where the miners and shipbuilders were constantly on strike, the lights went off at 10.30 and we made great products like Hillman Avengers.....
Whats up Phil - you still hankering for a new Allegro....?
Jim Goodwin Yes I remember the “ glory days”of the unions when one strike was followed by another, the 3 day week (electricity for only 3 days a week), rubbish rotting in the streets, bodies stored in refrigerated trailers, only being allowed to take £40 out of the country on you hols etc etc. You need to take off your rose tinted specs if you think things were better in the 70s.
@Phil The Messer no the bad 70s.rubbish pileing up, bodies not being buried, power cuts. I remember having to work in Woolworths by candle and torch light. Why is it always governments fault, get out there and get work look after your family. How do you think people managed in the war. I would love to know how many who use food banks smoke and drink.
You should have found more people in their 20's/30's to ask as most older people a fully aware that Labour/Unions/Strikes go hand in hand
Without representation you get amazon and the privatised Royal Mail.
The nurses went on strike for the first time ever because the tories are running the nhs into the ground. Militant bastards eh
@Cheryl Graham in america postal workers can earn up to $60,000 they're pension is $30,000 a year.
Under privatised Royal mail workers get £12.5 grand and holidays they can't choose and the dissapearing over the hill poverty state pension. Again the rich screwing the real workers.
@Cheryl Graham you do know that blair was a tory plant to destroy the labour party, he's still trying to take over by slating corbyn from afar. Blair voted to invade iraq corbyn voted against in fact corbyn voted against blair everytime. Corbyn has never voted for war and he was a big part of the good friday agreement which blair took the plaudits for. Blair is and always will be a tory.
Or you could accept what ever shit your employer throws at you.
Strikes its Labors second name
Tom Hill they are famous for strikes
Health and safety but you'll be reading billionaires rags
@Phil The Messer
Here's our Phil - living in his parallel universe stating rubbish about Thatcher - the greatest ever PM who rid the country of basket case industries like Leyland and created an economy so strong there were queue's of companies lined up ready to invest in us - most are still here and thrithing....
Instead, Phil cannot understand that it was the unions who killed off British industry by constantly going on strike, shipbuilding being a good example where constant strikes, wage demands and poor productivity drove shipbuilding abroad.....
Our motor industry was a joke - as was our once world leading motorcycle manufacturers....
Same for the miners but few in their right mind would think we should have a coal industry now - perhaps Thatcher was a visionary who knew that coal had had its day - an early ecowarrior (that was a joke Phil).
Question for you....
If all these old industries were that great, why didn't Blair reinstate them?
@Phil The Messer
Utter rubbish from top to bottom....
Its like blaming the iceberg for sinking the Titanic rather than the stupid bugger who steered the thing into it.
That's the thing with the moronic left...
Its always, always. always someone else's fault.
You reckon that Brown had zero to do with the crash in 2009 but you do admit there was a crash I hope.....?
So why do you moan on about austerity?
Labours idea of economics is like having you grandad on his death bed telling you that you can have the house but then finding out that he'd got a 200 year mortgage on it and you have to pay....
Take some responsibility for your own actions for once......
@Phil The Messer Of course Blair and Brown had nothing to do with sending the country broke and Labor will do it again if they could
A Rail Guard is paid £30k ??? We need real competition in this sector. No wonder passenger prices are out of control.
"Socialist Worker", one of the greatest oxymorons.
Yeah, an oxymoron like "Conservative and Unionist Party" when there'll be no union if the Tories win the election
@Phil The Messer This is my biggest fear Phil. No more Great Britain/ United Kingdom.
Generous tories.
@Phil The Messer Construction worker - how much per hour ?
@@ricardoortez9812 and SNP to you
Love the way Corbyn is targeting students, telling them he'll scrap uni fees, telling them he'll give them free broadband ... but wait, even if the do implement it (if they aren't lying) it'll be those same students who'll pay for it in far higher taxes than the post-students of today (as well as paying off their current student loans ... wait, If he scraps them too, who's paying for those? Oh yeah the same students with higher taxes that won't be written off after 30 years). Think before you vote youth!! Isn't that like convincing turkeys that they get free slap up meals at Christmas!
The RMT is selling an Advent Calendar. Trouble is, nobody can decide who opens the doors. 😁
Haha very good.
Replace the trains with self driving controls, and give them their P45. Same on TFL. They are constantly holding people to ransom. And when you effect the rail network businesses lose money because people don't keep appointments and can't get to work. Yada yada.
Like UC
If the train workers don't like the pay they get and the working conditions, then they can go and get a job else where or work for themselves as self employed people , then they would realise how lucky they are to be getting the high wages they receive !
In the 80s and early 90s I used to be a Guard at Waterloo and a member of the RMT. Both them and ASLEF were very militant. We used to have jobs where we had to travel passenger to travel to crew another train. One day a Driver decided to travel passenger first class ( which was obviously not allowed) and when questioned by a Manager threatened him with violence. The Driver was subsequently disciplined and suspended for one day so the ASLEF drivers went on strike for the day in sympathy disrupting passengers all day. The Driver should have been sacked. Driver only trains have been running for years, look at the DLR it runs without a Driver.
DLR only does little journeys though and like all tube trains runs without guards. I would hate to be on a long train journey without a guard. Think they have gone too far though this time striking all December then having the cheek to put fares up 2.7 per cent in new year.
PompeyChris71 Thus was all decided years ago. In the late 80s the drivers sold us out on DOO ( driver only operation) for £7.00 a shift when they agreed to work non passenger trains so it’s escalated from there.
Phil The Messer I’m a big supporter of trade unions but we are entering a new phase of Automation. The RMT should be concentrating on getting a good deal for the Guards, Conductors or whatever they are called these days. DOO has been happening for more than twenty years.
Phil The Messer I support the Unions but they won’t win this time.
Phil The Messer When I was a guard at Waterloo all the Union Reps were actually card carrying Communists.
With all this push towards driverless cars, I would say that driverless trains would be a whole lot easier to achieve. Yje no of hazards to be dealt with is hugely less and the robots would not hold the public to ransom. Things will be a whole lot worse if McDonell, Corbyn and co ever get near power.
@johnny cash - I hope you are right.
Have you loolrd around to what austerity and bexit has done to our country. Nobody else to blame but the tories.
@@nicholasroberts6441 what has that got to do with the train strikes
And the austerity came about because the last labour shower left the country in debt and the Tories tried to balance the books again. Now we have McDonnel and Co wanting to borrow even more. Borrowing your way out of a debt crisis, like curing alcoholism with a bottle of whisky.
@@nicholasroberts6441
You're not right are you..
Austerity was down to labour trashing the economy....
Brexit was a cross party vote where Labour sat on the fence so long you ended up with piles.......
Please don't tell me you think it was only Tory's who voted for Brexit?
Get mcdonald to stand on top of one of the carriages. (preferably as it goes into a tunnel.)
Labour are to blame for everything these days!
There would be no need for strikes under a Labour Government , all the jobs would be gone within 18 months.
...while RMT drivers drive trains on Thameslink and elsewhere where THEY open and close doors quite safely. The ORR has said there is no safety issue here. The Guards have been guaranteed jobs but have to work up and down the trains checking passenger's tickets, safety and well being. What they should do anyway but don't as they prefer the rear cab to have a brew and read a paper ...
And Labour want to hand the power to the RMT to shut down the WHOLE of the railway in the UK when its nationalised ... back to the good old '70s chaps ./..
Strikes are meant to cause disruption or they're pointless.
Labour was founded by the unions and both have fought for the employment rights for working class people. Big business donates millions to the tories in an attempt persuade them to bring in legislation to circumnavigate hard won workers rights...
we need guards on trains, I know that a train driver had a heart attack and the guard had to bring the train to the station and get help, what if theres no guard what happens then
Janet......”dead mans handle” springs to mind😂😂
Summary: REAL workers are annoyed but not surprised.
Vote Labour if you want everything nationalised, and all power given to powerful Union Barons to do whatever they want, when they want too.
Take back our utilities now wouldn't that be a shame cutting out the profits to shareholders
@@nicholasroberts6441 You clearly have no idea of how the trade union barons held this country in an iron grip back in the day :)
If labour win and we then stay in the E.U. as they seem inclined to want, the E.U. will not allow nationalisation of anything. Don’t know how the contradiction will work out.
@@AICabal yes i do but i also know that my trade union rep told us we wont have a job if thatcher got in and we didn't six months later. Then she started on the coal miners turning them against each other then she laid waste to heavy industry to be replaced by the badly paid service industry which is stacled full of poverty waged immigrants.
I was there i voted for her and joined the dole queue.
@@AICabal an elderly friend of mine was a manager in the mines. The unions gave some slack and the maagement did so both walked away happy. Thatcher came in and took the lot,no compromise. She told Scargill she was closing 20 mines he said 60 she lied she closed 60. Never trust a tory.
The working classes unions and the Labour party are synonymous, this is news to you?, what planet are you from?.
Hmmm always sceptical of posts with an agenda regardless of political persuasion.
I would need convincing this isn't some kind of politically motivated fake news propaganda channel. It looked like the interviewer didn't try very hard to question a diverse group of people or perhaps selected which interviews to include.
Matt W
So the rail strike is fake news then?
Who knew......
Jim Goodwin , it’s not that,is it! It’s the pathetic singling out of selected views that agreed with the interviewers narrative ! Go figure! In fact I decided to give it a thumbs down for paucity of objective!
@@billburnhope2176
Like the shitty left never do that........
Jim Goodwin this is the problem with today’s politics I consider myself a left winger/ liberal but no one can pleasantly disagree anymore it’s no longer a difference if ideology it’s just people like you saying oh the shitty left and not having a debate or just disagreeing u just use stupid slogans and brand everyone the same
Anthony H
I’ve long given up trying to debate with the left, it’d be easier debating with a cabbage......
Oh, regarding tone of my comment. That’s nothing to what’s been thrown at me over the years including death threats so you can stick that.......
The three stations that I use on a daily basis all have curved platforms meaning that there is a large gap/drop between the platform and the train. Having witnessed someone slip through the gap down to trackside I for one support the guards. Knowing that they are there watching out for me is very reassuring. And as for saying that Labour are “responsible” for the strikes is ridiculous, the union members voted to strike it had nothing to do with Labour. You don’t mention the fact that the tories are footing the bill for the fare claim backs thus enabling the train companies to prolong the strike. It makes me laugh when people moan about the unions and in the same breath berate the pay deal that the unions have achieved for their members. As for the winter of discontent... that was down to Labour because they went in the face of the unions in an attempt to LOCK DOWN public sector wages.
Labour Communist Party.
Unbeleivable that a lot of people dont realise that if they pay to join a union,they are funding the labour party!no choice,no debate,they may do some good work,but its one reason ive never joined a union,and never will,by way my union,usdaw,is pathetic anyway
You can opt out of the political contribution. I did, but the union won't tell you about it unless you ask.
@@andrewcampbell52bearwood3 thank you,appreciate that,but they really are useless anyway,took them 8 months to accept our original pay rise!will be backdated,but they couldnt organise pee up in brewery lol,but again thanks for heads up reply
Corbyn sitting on the floor of a train protesting about a packed train that has plenty of seats...
I notice that the older interviewees are wiser and aware of the unions' funding to the Labour party.
Under EU rules they would not be allowed to nationalise any of the industries they are proposing too, the shadow front bench are all remainers, so all this talk about is lies.
Lord forbid billionaires pay their taxes 🤭
Corbyn probably has his wealth tucked away. His parents mansion in Wiltshire must have raised a fair bit.
Which billionaires are these?
They pay more than you mate. Compared to them, you're a parasite.
The top 10% pay over 50% of the taxes. They pay a lot more than anyone else.
Omg I give up you can’t help some people
Where was the anger and frustration? These commuters just took it all with a smile!!!! I fxxxxg wouldn’t... £30,000a year?
Typical, what about your people going to work
You need to question the very young who are more likely to vote Labour and understand their corruption
Why do we need train drivers these days? Automation required.
Automatic systems are not foolproof. You do need a human being to take charge if things go pear-shaped.
As for the long-running dispute over guards being responsible for the doors, that's just living in the past on the union's part. Drivers do that task on many networks without any endangering of passengers. Nobody except a fool would not want there to be a guard and other staff on board of course, but there's no need for them to do the doors now that slam doors are almost extinct. Didn't the unions previously demand the retention of firemen on trains back in the day, even after coal burning engines had been replaced with diesels?
we are always told that migration was to fill in the skills gap in this country, i find it unbelievable that we cant find train drivers within the rail employees or elsewhere that do not want to fill a vacancy @ £30000 basic salary even in London and i for one do not see many train drivers that are not ethnic ,why is that ?
@Phil The Messer bollocks , no facts, just bring out the racist card ,pathetic ,you clearly do not travel on public transport in London , London is majority ethnic background now and in no way represents Britain any more
@Phil The Messer not bothered, only the fact that the narrative is british people cant be found to do these 30 grand jobs and we need migration to fill them is a copp out ,now consultants doctors and nurses we need is a different matter and dont care what their ethnicity is and having said that we need to train more so those medical staff can return to improve the care in their own counties ,
@Phil The Messer lol the problem is how many of those 40000 are needed to look after eastern Europeans etc that milk our benefits and health systems after brexit those not working on skills we need will be made to return home and i know one thing at this time it will not include doctors an nurses or any other professionals we need and i dont mean car cleaners
Privatisation by the Tories ruined the railways I think you'll find.
The British Labour party has close ties with the Australian Labor party. Blair was a close friend of Paul keating ,a failed PM in Australia. So the unions funding labour candidates is exactly what the CFMEU does in Australia. Quite a few millions in fact.
30k in London = £2k council tax £6k income tax £2k national insurance £600 pension contributions £12,000 rent in London £1000 per year travel = £23,600 in costs before food and bills are paid
Labour aren’t responsible for strikes, the government are, if the government paid workers properly they wouldn’t have strikes. You realise it’s a well known fact that trade unions and workers support the LABOUR party right?
All the issues with Network rail are BECAUSE it’s the only nationalised part of the railways...all the private stuff works well.
It is believed that the Labour Part are now considering adopting a new Party Emblem as being more fitting to their election results. The being touted is that of Leyland, which ionb the early 80's was less affectionately know as "The Sign of the Shrinking A#@"
Would it surprise you, that this is skewed political journalism. Blame the companies not the workers.
News, but not as I know it🤦♂️
Nearly every week there was a strike in 70 is...is this what you want? And more Khan's...more imigration.. vote Labour out once and for all.
Labour sponsered MPs directly to push for their policies! Prescott and Becket come to mind! BUT that is OK, as they ARE actually representing the cause?
So the RMT union sends money to the Labour party. The unions founded that party_ duh! Labour doesn't get support from big business and tax dodging billionaires like the Tories and they own all these companies thanks to privatisation anyway.
Collusion with the corrupt Labour Party. Politicians will use any dirty trick they can to get what they want. Once again the proof is obvious, they care nothing for the people of this country, they just want power. The Labour Party would also ensure that we are eventually all living under Sharia, with total Muslim domination of our once great country.
You do realise that Labour IS (or rather, was) the party of trade unions? It was founded by trade unions to serve the interests of working people, and until Thatcher came along union membership fees automatically went in part to the Labour Party because of their natural support. So why the surprise?
Good job the railways are not nationalised, otherwise the whole national rail network would be on strike for 27 days, not just Southwest RMT workers. Go Jezza!
1 most rail franchises are Uk taxpayer subsidiesed, 2 Unions are not run by goverment.= you are spreading Lies.
One could ask who funds the conservatives. The reality is that each side has its supporters and labour stand up for working workers rights, so should it be surprising that the workers Unions then contribute funds to Labour. Anyone not realizing this is what goes on, and why, has not been paying much attention.
Well ask me next time because I am all in favour of industrial action. The lack of unions is a key reason why people are on poverty wages whilst their bosses earn big bucks. The train operating companies are trying to get rid of guards thanks to a report commissioned by the Tories a few years ago. They are fighting to keep their jobs in the long run. Also notice how the interviewer spoke to that chap as if 30k a year is a lot of money! Jesus wept.
Politician opens mouth (lies) Politician closes mouth, thinks about the next (LIE)
I've never seen so many "bot" channels in the comment section! Click on almost any one of them and they have no channel content, no videos, no subs and most channels were created in the last few weeks. This is one of the worst propaganda videos and selected comment section I've seen in a long time!
The shape of things to come if Corbyn McDonut and the rest of the Liebour loons get in on Thursday
I'm voting conservative. But this is miss leading there fighting for there jobs and keeping the railway safer not extra money
In the past a Tory MP. Pout in to law that all political contributions from the union be recorded and that all union members have the right to not pay that contribution how ever private contributions are not require to be published by law and the largest benefactors are the Tory Party of said backhanders.
Whilst I don't agree with the rail drivers going on strike because of the distruption it will cause I also don't think that trains should be run without guards either, this nonsense of wanting to operate trains without guards is irresponsible when the times we now live in is so dangerous. A driver cannot see what's going on 100 yards behind him on the train and it's Rediculous to expect him to do so. This is all about money again being put before safety and I totally agree with the drivers on that point so both sides need to have a look at the situation again. If the management get their own way and don't use guards the fares won't drop its be used to pay bigger bonuses to the hiaracy as usual.
I remember the Aussie train staff had a dispute years ago and didn’t strike they just stopped collecting fares ! The trains were running full up and they had the people on their side. There’s more than one way to skin a cat 😉.
I despise the modern labour party but will always defend the right to strike. We are not slaves...yet.
Ridiculous to think that a train needs a conductor as well as a driver. The rail companies need to hold out to prevent this excess in manpower. And, of course they can, as the contract they have with the government means they get reimbursed if there is any disruption.
Don’t forget Corbin is going to allow secondary pickitting. So the nhs could come out in support of the rail
Strikes are unfortunate but necessary at times and if you are going to strike, its best to do it when its going to impact the employer the most, but if the employer had listened to the RMT and entered into negotiations, the strikes could have been avoided.
Vote for Labour and get more unionism and strikes. Any one in London moaning about rail strikes and then votes Labour must be demented. The unions are the paymasters of Labour.
I wonder how many people the interviewer approached before he could interview an English person.
The supporters of the strike could not be found, because they were out on strike. £30,000 yes please
The unions support the labour party, always have done, just the same way billionaire newspaper owners support the tories, I like the way your looking down the shit pile, not up to see where the real issues are.
transport is an essential service and no strikes should be allowed.
make it criminal.
If we can have driverless cars, we can definitely have driverless trains. These dinosaurs are signing their own death warrants.
In the days of slam door trains guards were useful. Nowadays with automatic doors with sensors to detect door state they are pointless.
Im in the RMT and i get bombarded with emails and texts telling me to vote labour. Not an ice cubes chance in hell
Who is this? This is shabby 'journalism'. Of course that's not whatt is, its activism plain and simple.
Nothing wouldn't put it past me with the old fart from the red devil 😈
We'll, they would! Any excuse not to work.
£ 30.000 and you think that is huge amount of money?
You wait until that second pair of eyes isn’t there to intervene when things go wrong! Just loved the interviews conducted with a ‘ fair proportion ‘ of the public! Just another caring company wanting to maximise profits,
As for that young man at the end, had no idea of the value of safety! Incidentally, no mention of lower fares for joe public! Never mind, fair and balanced counts for nothing these days!!
It's not necessarily the dispute that people are against it's the way it is handled...I mean 27 days strike? You won't gain allies like that!
Vanessa Wood-Hopps,wonder how much support will happen following the first accident, I’d rather not have the accident to prove the point!
It's time to renationalise the railways.
Labour and the Muslim , that’s it
Labour = union power ! Power to the people !
We are expected to believe that one day soon we will have driverless cars which will be safer then ones with drivers, not just on motorways, but also on busy City streets with pedestrians walking about. If this is indeed even slightly possible, we must have had the technology for perfectly safe, strick free, driverless trains at least 20 years ago.
we did the DLR
british people approving of staff cutbacks on our trains? i don't know!! maybe if they got knifed on a train without a guard they might not be so glib.
google knife guards? que?
Be a leaver a true believer🙂
Total bollocks !!!!
The first two literally were speaking for the nation.
They don't speak for me
Fair enough I hear whats being said, but what is the alternative to strike action if you are being shafted by your employer, what would you do?
@@truthagenda5699 so everyone that is on strike leaves? That's more disruptive to the customer than a couple of days strike action!
@@truthagenda5699 much more inconvenience, you can't replace hundreds of train drivers over night can you, and it's the inconvenience of strike action that people moan about, so I dnt really get what you're saying tbh .
selected speakers-all tories, of course!!
interesting 'train' of thought; am i on the right track?.
When we are within spitting distance of self driving cars you would think the drivers would be more interested in saving their jobs --- any jobs in the coal mines?
The Tories have many times more contributions from many dodgy sources. The unions founded the labour party.
I support all Unions. However I think this approach over Christmas is the wrong.
The strike is over having a guard on the train. None of the other companies have them, only this one....
This is political propaganda this guy will disappear tomorrow