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  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    edited September 2022
    “In this life one thing counts! In the bank.. large amounts! 
    You got to pick a pocket or two boys”
    The new national anthem? 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    scrap the limit on " bankers' bonuses " Spivs and money launderers will LOVE that one.
    and that was lady penelope's day one promise.
    shows where her priorities lie
    Devon.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I have a lot of friends who don't drive,we live on the outskirts of a village, stations a couple of miles walk in each direction. Surely,rail strikes will raise the cost of rail travel,or people will stop using the trains, find another way to travel,thus rail company loosing more revenue. As previously said the fat cats can use their limo,it's the poorer working classes who will suffer.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Surely it's  those who NEED the railways who should be defending a decent wage for those who work on them? 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2022
    Rail tickets are already too expensive for most people unless they can set them against tax.  

    We'd love to go to Cornwall by train rather than for me to drive all the way ... but you can't book cheaper fares far enough ahead to plan  a holiday.   I try every year.  Crazy.  

    The privatisation of a vital part of this country's infrastructure was a wicked evil scheme, just as the privatisation of this country's water was.  😡

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dovefromabove said:
    Rail tickets are already too expensive for most people unless they can set them against tax.  

    We'd love to go to Cornwall by train rather than for me to drive all the way ... but you can't book cheaper fares far enough ahead to plan  a holiday.   I try every year.  Crazy.  

    The privatisation of a vital part of this country's infrastructure was a wicked evil scheme.  
    I  concur. 
    let the current franchises run out then take them back into public ownership
    Devon.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Hear hear.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited September 2022
    Someone suggested that rather than striking, they should just let the passengers through without paying .sounds like a more effective strategy to me
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I imagine they’d be in breach of their contract of employment and liable for the sack. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Not like sacking a train driver I suppose. Ticket collectors probably don't need a lot of training and are easy to replace.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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