That one women could do with walking to get the exercise 🤘🤘

It baffles me that more people are angry at the workers for striking, than they are the circumstances which initiated the strikes in the first place.

They like a 40 hour week and health and safety regulations. I wonder how we got that.

If you own a pedal bike who cares about strikes??? Save yourself thousands every year.

@@ewanoxborrow1024 People are stupid and like to blame the thing immediately in front of them rather than actually think about the situation.

Which is why BR was best BR before Europe nationalised their rails.

Literally a joke. Private companies increase share price by growth. Constant growth. Either increase revenue or reduce costs. So politicians clearly took us for fools.

Privatisation is theft, suck it up dumb plebs.

Lots of our railways are owned by European national rail services. If the government cared about taking back control they would renationalize the railway.

I doubt it's that easy, there are probably huge financial penalties built in. Besides which, public run services haven't got a good track record in this Country.

I'm all for a General Strike

Completely agree.. never quite understood how there is always working class people who will be interviewed and oppose the strike because how dare they fight for their interests and cause inconvenience in my life for one day or two.. falling for the trap which all companies and governments do, which is put the public against the strikers..

Think further than your nose, someone will have to pay for the excesses of some of these 'dynasaurs' with entitlement mentality.

Here here !

@@victordemelo3311 yes and those someones will be those who CAN afford to pay. Take a class and learn to understand surplus value - worker are continually exploited and it must end!

Alfred the great will be proud .😆

Unfortunately Boris wants to take it back to the 1870s!

@@jujutrini8412 not kidding mate he wont stop until we're back in dark ages

There would be a strike if Corbyn had won. Also tens of thousands fewer would've died through the pandemic.

@@paradigmshift1979 so much damage to our economy 😔

What rot , totally naive

@@timcomley3241 no!! Pure facts💯

Spot on id say

@@timcomley3241 very dismissive, very wrong and very guarded. It's falling apart bud

just looking at the water pressure in our taps would tell you how crumbling our infrastructure is, and it's been like this for as long as I remember. However when I travel abroad, staying with friends in Europe and some developing countries then you realised they have far better water pressure than us, the 5th richest country in the world. It does beg the question where did all the taxpayers money go?

They could take a leaf from Japan. They could run the trains but not accept fares. The government would lose out on income. But the public would be fine.

@@psychopathlvc1474 apparently that's illegal and they would be held to disciplinary action /sacked

I agree that they need more but everyone does. They don't need an increase more than other sectors really and then people that spend thousands every year to the railway companies like myself are losing our pay all week because of this. This is the same situation as with the climate people who glue their heads to the pavement.. Whether they are in the right or wrong I can't say for sure but I can say for sure I don't deserve to loose pay and spend all day in a bus melting at +25 degrees..

But railway workers strike every year about pay rise! And if your remember nurses only got 1% and railway workers want 7% plus other benefits! Nurses could've walked away from hospitals but they didn't do that, and railway workers do what they like and don't give a monkey about travellers!

How would that be illegal? Train drivers and associated staff keep the trains running, but the ticket office staff and any office staff who'd process online sales go on strike. Management are left with the decision to provide the service but no income, or no service and no income and the added hassle of the Unions on TV telling the public that they could have got their usual train but the management refused permission to run those services.

Spot on

I don’t pay them I am also just a minimum wage worker trying to go to my shitty workplace 😅 now I have to suffer this inconvenience out of nowhere, like our lives are not hard enough

Furthermore, join them! Wealth inequality is absolutely staggering coming out of this pandemic and it's about time working people stood up for themselves and each other.

good point

They get paid very fairly already

how about creating real jobs with real wages so they can work and feed their families.

@@SwissCheese112 Exactly. Instead they increase bonuses for the richest. Siphoning money from the public to enrich a few.

No,no,no Wilfried…….send them off to university and give them a lifetime of debt as well.

@@mikehutchison4892 more value than giving the money to to be wasted elsewhere. For if you educate the population you have a wider skills base, and a more informed citizen. So if the government feeds the kids and provides support and opportunities they are more likely to go to university or an apprenticeship. However, if you treat professions with contempt, they'll be problems in creating well educated people. Particularly as classroom sizes, decreasing pay, and rising mental health problems. Problem is the government is treating everyone like disposable pieces of furniture. The legs are coming off Britain's public sector because the government have nasty intentions.

Thank you!!!👍

Lawyers are out.

Whereas as labour want to nationalise them 😂 Policy has to be voted in parliament before it come law, a majority is needed to labour and conservatives have voted for these policies. Both to blame but you won’t see that, best take those rose tinted glasses off!

@@canzukcommonwealth7309 Course he won't labour supporters never see wrong with there party there perfect but can't win elections because there MPS are useless or IRA lovers or champagne socialists that are also doing dodgy stuff.

How will you get to work Then? By foot?

@@aboubasakiofire884 No I fly there how do you think stupid question

With its simple leader 🤥

The leader of the RMT likes banging the drums for higher wages and better working conditions.....but then again, he does look a bit like Phil Collins, so banging the drums is what he does for a living. _"I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord!"_

Keir starmer is not a Unionist neither is Emily Thornberry they're both remnants carcass of Tony Blair

Undergrad drivers make up to £85k per year. DLR line trains are fully self driving, yet union still is keeping driver hanging un a train. That is not sustainable!

@@djtdjt8921 this strike is nothing to do with drivers…

@@Keithemery889 what is it to do with?

@@djtdjt8921 station workers, train guards and cleaning staff being paid a wage in line with inflation and having secure jobs… the tories are to blame for this strike

Great idea, I'd back that

that method of strike is made illegal in the union laws in the 70s, if workers do that it will be illegal and open to disciplinaries

@@missrubex me too.

Nice one !

@@RajSingh-xv9xk that’s a pity!

Yeah lets screw the whole nation instead.... Keep them to our ransom...

Hear hear

Who is getting screwed over The whole country so why should they be treated any better It will only drive layoffs and more autonomy they claim to be not safe

I agree with one thing this idiot said, wages can't keep going up, true, cut MPs salaries. 12 years of Tory austerity & cruelty & she is blaming Covid & Ukraine. Yuk! Next!!!! 🤮

So do Labour...

@@MrEdrftgyuji "So do Labour..." Shitpost.

@@emm_arr Not really. All politicians are scum.

Private cabins for private individuals. The gap will widen

Don't worry they'll bail them out no ones gonna let first go under they may be insanely hated and have a monopoly on the rail

All national rail networks cost more than they do to run. It isn't really about cost, it is about what a Government is willing to subsidise.

Is that still going ahead?

@@dodgecharger1986 oh yes and costing £billions

Don't forget the £9B or so fraudulently claimed through covid grants and loans. Bet some of the filthy tories have their noses deep into that trough

He’s not my prime minister fella. The idiot was born in America. Deep down he just wants to ruin Great Britain 🇬🇧. Just look at the great empire’s in the past and see ware are they today?? We’re the last empire of its time. So basically what I’m trying to say is your watching and listening to history in the making. 👍🏼🇬🇧🇬🇧👌

Yep, because (and you're another one with a very short memory) "The People" were crying their little heads off shouting "DO SOMETHING!!!". No different to the the wasted PPE money - that was "The People" as well! You also have a very short memory with Blair and his wasted IT billions....

Inflation is a world wide problem. It is addressed by higher interest rates. That means higher rents and mortgages. Getting higher pay increases inflation which increases interest rates. The problem is wage inflation always lags price inflation so you get poorer and poorer and poorer. I suspect a lot of Russian trolls are at work trying to wreck the economy as they did in the 1970s. Their economy is tanking and they would love to do the same to everyone else.

@@mbak7801 I agreed with you until you started going on about Russian trolls... Really...? You think inflation is generated by Internet gossip...?

All govts are corrupt in some form or other. Get a life.

@@PA-lf8sd heyyy come on man. Who hurt you?

​@@barristophilliesiii5863 Oh come on! Quoting "corporate greed" and "corrupt government"... Do you seriously think you're original...? There's greed everywhere and it's not just corporate! All govts waste money and oil the cogs with sweeteners, even the good ones!

what you need is a competent government

@@SwissCheese112 There's no such thing! Countries are too big and unwieldy to be run efficiently. Countries are a money pit and they always will be. Do you not yet understand that basic concept?

You've replaced it with propaganda... Josef Goebbels would be proud

Sorry to say but nothing ever comes out of America any good these days. Good luck buddy.👍🏼🇬🇧🇬🇧👌

this goes back many many decades. so many problems in the uk. from the government to society. the economic, transport, energy, education, immigration, and law. the country is a total fucking mess. and the government continues to roll back your freedoms. thank god I moved and live in canada.

Good point. It’s one big club. Odd how you don’t see plumbers or bus drivers wind up as MPs

@@krob2327 Thatcher's dad ran a grocery store! What are you on about??

@@krob2327 There may have been a couple at some point or other that had done a real job, but I can't imagine any that are there today worked on a buiding site in the winter or picked tatties in a cold ,muddy field when they were young! The problem when people with money are in power is the lack of connection to real people.

@@PA-lf8sd yeah but he didn’t run the country… you’ve missed the point I think.

@@starforce1003 What?!!? *She* was a grocer's daughter! Humble beginnings! And I'm fairly sure she ran the country!

Yeah, cool dude for sure

Yes but when your rail fares go up you all moan about inflated prices The only people out there moaning are all union people Most people who use trains aren't in unions especially in the cities Yes everyone deserves a wage rise to that I agree But when the country is held to ransom by unions it'll be the people who'll end up blaming the unions as did with the coal miners In today's society were contracts are drawn up there shouldn't be any use of unions

@@neilroberts5434 exactly my point. I don’t use public transport to commute. Although I feel their pain. I travel by car so I am noticing that it costs me a lot more to fill my car. I was speaking in general towards wages and cost of living and people supporting each other against the government. I’m sure you have noticed the prices on shopping, petrol, heating ect. Government can’t look after its own people yet can blow cash at Ukraine and refugees that haven’t paid tax into the system. Boris really doesn’t look after his own so we should

@@crystalmcfarland7441 hi The point I'm trying to make is that with the fuel crisis there's countries that rely on fossil fuels as their main income and with what was lost during the pandemic (which we're still in) and now war in Ukraine fuel is going to be high it isn't only the UK who are feeling the pinch it's everywhere (300% inflation in some African countries and it's only going to get worse Like I said earlier wage rises increases inflation that's economics for ya Worse thing ever brought forward was the minimum wage as companies then have to increase their prices on their products hence inflation Don't matter who is in power it depends on how it's managed We've borrowed so much for the pandemic it's left us not so well off Companies who lost a whole lot due pandemic are now pulling it back That's what business does passes on any increase to the consumer So in reality we the consumer is always picking up the tab be it through taxes or inflation The bank of England can't put too much on interest rates because there is sooo many people in debt up their eyeballs due to living beyond their means If you put a mandatory drug testing area in front of a food bank you would see that there wouldn't be many people use them Yes everyone deserves a rise but like I already mentioned there's ways that can be achieved without striking But you cannot start pandering to a minority of people who are paid well above soldiers nurses teachers police so on and so forth What you should be moaning about is how much those at the top get that's including bosses and union reps

ALL OUT!!

It is actually over 50% if you factor in all the different taxes. Plus all the other stealth taxes to force us off the roads (all these nasty "clean air" zones appearing everywhere, just toll roads by a different name)

@@MrEdrftgyuji nasty clean air zones? Since when has not poisoning people been nasty?

@@priscillaroberts7945 Ha. You actually believe that propaganda.

YOUR ALREADY TAXXED ON UR MONEY BEFORE YOU PAY YOUR FUEL AND ROAD TAX AND INSURANCE ON UR CAR U NEVER NEED....

@@MrEdrftgyuji as the widow of a man who died of an industrial lung disease i believe that breathing clean air is a right and i know the struggle to breathe in dirty air is beyond frightening . You believe the propaganda of the petrodollar millionaires if you want to it doesn't work on me.

Plus you get to add several hours of extra down time to your days, what an improvement

Overpriced because the tories privitised it. They must be kicked out in 2024

@@giani1680 overpriced because you have mongs on the gatelines being paid 35k+ and get massive pension contributions. High wages for all doesnt work. Cost of living just rises to compensate. At the end of the day, a retarded cleaner is just that. He/she doesnt deserve to be paid more. If they want more pay, they need to invest in upskilling and get a better paid job.

@@giani1680 sorry, when has rail been any good and they haven't been constantly striking? They striked constantly between 2016 & 2019, before privatization. Labour was in charge in 2017, so nothing to do with Conservatives. . Rail was gotten worse every year, for decades, in which Labour was in charge from 1997 to 2010. This isn't a part thing, its a Union thing. They have too much power in a industry that is Civil & and in need of bringing in to the modern world. These Luddites need firing and replaced with a system that everyone can work with.

@@stevebren88 has it been any good since it has been privatised. It is one of the worst in Europe, and by far the most expensive. Hence, it must be nationalised.

Do you read the news 🤓

Tories are underrated to be honest

@@bazle64 underrated what though ?

Yep. U.K. railways are twice as expensive per mile as any other major European country. The Tories want you to take the car because they are in the pockets of the oil companies.

You think Blair never did that...? You reckon union bosses never do that...? Wake up. We'd all do it given the chance.

Making nearly 3000 rail line maintenance workers unemployed is extremely bad for safety. But, as long as the ceo gets the annual bonuses its all good.

NO!😆

They started on the disabled at the 2012 Olympics. Banned them from protesting and wearing symbols of solidarity against the dwp and atos.

Where are the massive dividends? The whole thing is unprofitable.

Yeah...shutting the country down to create affordable prices. Which planet did you just arrive from...?

ALL OUT!!

It is complicated when Starmer has purged much of the left.

Labour and tories are the same. It is as if Blair never left office.

@@MrEdrftgyuji I wouldn't go that far. The Tories positively despise the working class. Labour are just too scared of the press to fight for them.

No one believes it’s labours fault though

He’s useless

@@willgiles6848 I bet the Mail and the Telegraph do!

Let's say they get 11% pay rise... Then the teachers will want it.... The the civil service, NHS, fire service, ect ect ect.... Who pays for it?

@@cujimmi the same people that paid the billions wasted on pointless wars

@@cujimmi a sensible taxation system aimed at corporations, bankers and the 1%

@@eddouglas fair enough.. But that's not going to happen is it

@@cujimmi well if they stopped sending bombs to Ukraine and running a tab with the defence companies then maybe the workforce will be able to be given decent pay rises with money to spare

Newman also accuses the rail workers of causing distress to the public. Not the 12 years of this governments wage cuts or network rail.

It's the old 'where all in it together' approach isn't it. They must think we are stupid

We have to fight back in all areas of underpaid work.

nice

The gates were opened to those removals when the EHRC stepped in to block the asylum transfer flight with Rwanda. I forsee use of subterfuge as the council is portrayed as an offshoot of the EU, thus human rights will be redefined as no longer required. Dickins revisited as part of the country's levelling up project, thus the country slides into 18th century....

Who supports an 8 percent pay rise? It's absurd. They should be sacked.

@@SA-ff9uc Everyone who believes that no one deserves a pay cut, whichever job you work in. Somehow MPs can get away with their continous ay rises worth 10s of thousands over the years but normal people cannot even get a "pay rise" that just matches inflation. This absurd inflation caused by the incompetent government in the first place. MPs don't care as they can wreck the country and still make money, others cannot.

Yes she was brilliant in knocking back the questions. She should've said this is the government's problem not ours. As for your point about starmer not disciplining the front benchers who supported the strikers I don't understand your logic. You want them disciplined so that they just look like the Tory party? It's not the labour party's problem.

She is with labour and unions deliberately undermining the govt at recovery...stupid economic Madness'...so you are completely wrong

@@ebillyboi she actually didn't undermine the government.... though what actually is there to undermine? It'll be the usual tory insanity when it comes to negotiating.... they are fundamentally opposed to it. Of course if it was arguing with shareholders to give CEOs more that would be a different matter

@@ukporkpie7829 I didn't mention anything at all about Starmer disciplining frontbenchers who visited the picket lines. To clarify, what it does suggest is that Starmer is not in full control and whilst you will always have rebellious backbenchers in any party, frontbenchers will and probably should, be more aware of the purpose of an instruction as per the party strategy in dealing with a particular issue. I can't speak for Starmer, but let's assume for the sake of argument that his strategy was to put some distance between the Labour party and the strike so as not to feed the Tory propaganda machine, then it failed. Specifically, he cannot get even his own frontbenchers to follow his instructions. Imagine them in government and that means that you will have ministers and junior ministers going awol when and if it pleases them. That does not sound attractive and not much different to Boris and his cavalier attitude towards the law!

Very well said. You'd get my vote.

Jonathan Pie for home secratary 😆

It's very difficult to have empathy when you are being made poorer and more miserable by these strikes directly.

@@Andrei-hq9jd no, the rich are making you poorer, not these strikes lol

They get away with it because the billionaire UK media is a party to it. The greedy rich (not all rich people) are a selfish, cruel and callous family.

@@Ghengiskhansmum no, ALL rich people.

^^Ruzzian troll. Inept.

@@emm_arr stop impersonating me and using my display picture!

@@canadianpsychologist ^^Ruzzian. FSB Shitpost Quean

That is the most sensible post on here. My other half used to work for NR and she would go on endlessly about having no work to do, and listening to managers "haw haw" about cricket when they got together. All on stupid salaries for zero talent.

Well said. Not enough being reported on the inefficiencies and unnecessary spending on the management of National Rail and rail companies.

Average of 4% per year... every year...

Good comment. My thoughts too. 👍

Pigface is about as interested in Joe Average worker as Boris. They both care only about their careers.

Long way away yet. Would need all kinds of infrastructure in place before that happens and probably would still need a driver on board in case it went bonkers!!

@@BlackRose-vi2yg I don't think its a long way of, driverless trains are a lot less complex then driverless cars. However I take your point re needing a human driver as a backup.. I've not lived in the UK for a number of years, I just find it crazy how long it takes for the country to modernize..

@@elcristoph7380 there was a study done that said it would cost £100B, so it's not going to happen any time soon

And it would bring minimal savings as said each train would still need a 'driver'

Brace yourselves for steam engines, haven't your neighbours gone back to coal?

We're not talking about that anymore are we though ;) The media have the attention span of a 4 year-old so it's no surprise it's all been forgotten.

I feel for you, but unless you look at the bigger picture you will be suffering a lot more than this in the future when the govt become a dictatorship, they are almost there! It is not about the individual it is about society. we cannot function in a silo we all have to Interact, no person is an island. A collaboration of society bring all your needs, they need to be paid their worth, it cannot be acceptable for a shareholder to put £100 into a business & take all the wealth for no effort while the worker lives in poverty.😔 People cannot afford to feed their children & they are working 2 jobs for very little pay, not even eaning enough to pay tax. Unacceptable in the 5th richest economy.

The cost of living crisis makes it impossible to pay your bills & that your husband could afford to fly, book dental appointment, stay in London hotel means you are with respect better off than most. The energy bills coming, £3,600+ is the real problem you face not people asking to be paid their worth for their labour. 😔

After the utter chaos today in London, I believe the 7% should be given to the bus drivers.

The reason they have decent wages is because they have a good union and I’m sure if you ask any bus driver they will tell you they need paying more like the vast majority of people…

Train drivers aren’t even on strike, Jesus you people are insufferable

@@xGreenY600x I mean who wouldn't think they should be paid more?

Why can't the world be perfect?

The anti union laws of the 70s made this illegal. That’s why we couldn’t do that.

Na, the British press would lable that Marxist and have a field day of moral outrage.

lazy

Germany has also privatised its Railways. Can't remember the last time I took a train without delays!

Part of Swiss railway network are privatised too, and they did just fine.

Overpriced travel, underpaid staff, fat profits for the miscreants particularly shareholders. 🤮

This is how they will divide the country before they call a general election.. You heard it here first lol

5% maybe at a push

If you want to go back to the 70's , you clearly never lived in the n 70's.

@@Christinebanks11 Quite right george ;)

You wanted to be good egalitarians, now you are paying the consequences

Yes - but not here. Putin's death means a huge power vacuum.

What your salary?

@@maigepresents5840 none of your business. But not enough to even be able to rent anywhere outside of London by myself lets put it that way. Stuck in house shares!

Exactly, so many people like me in the same situation. Educated, professional people who can't afford a normal standard of living. I saw a sign by a train cleaner complaining about being paid 25 thousand a year. You're a cleaner, that's too much for an unskilled job.

@@SA-ff9uc or rather the skilled aren't getting paid enough. Funnily enough - the ones getting accused of being paid in line with inflation, which we aren't, are the ones getting absolutely zero help from anywhere. Getting fucked from both sides really if you excuse my vulgar language.

@@SA-ff9uc apply for the cleaning job then mate, see how ‘unskilled’ it is.

if you think tax is what makes a conservative then youre wrong. the main problem with the Conservative party is that its not conservative. its as liberal as new labour. it doesnt care about a conservative society in the slightest.