Just Getting Back After The Covid Crisis.........what Do We Need?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61726567
... a rail strike! Yet another branch of the 5th column!

[FatticusInch]

//Just Getting Back After The Covid Crisis.........what Do We Need?//

Johnson to finally do the right thing and fall on his sword, the country needs cheering up.

[ToraToraTora]

so no comment on your union buddies disrupting the public for their selfish reasons then Fatticus?

[FatticusInch]

Baroness Altman speaking on Sky News says.

The life peer did add that the vote of no confidence - in which around 40% of Conservative MPs voted to oust Mr Johnson - was a "serious blow" to the Johnson regime.
She said: "For the sake of the country and the party, a lot of people do feel that he needs to make the decision himself to stand down and let somebody else take this forward because he has upset so much of the public."

They’ve even got nasty 5Cers and poltroons with their fingers on the pulse in the HoL. Who knew?
Reds under the beds I tell you, reds under the beds!

[Canary42]

/// for their selfish reasons ///

When their Employers are well known for their selfless altruism.

[ToraToraTora]

Fatticus, if you want to talk about Boris start another thread, this is about the rail strike. Contribute to that or don't.

[FatticusInch]

Union buddies? Lol, your paranoia has taken hold of you!
You asked a question, I answered it. Seems Baroness Altman did too.
You need to focus the poltroon hunt in the HoL, there’s 148 in the HoC and the infection is obviously spreading to other parts of Westminster.

[naomi24]

Fair means or foul, TTT, but usually foul.

FatticusInch, this thread isn't about Boris. The vote you wanted has been completed. Boris is still there. Accept it and move on - before you bore everyone except the few other obsessives here to death.

[youngmafbog]

Just the Hard Left at it again. Seems political to me.

And what does Sir Kier and Angie have to say, anyone know?

[ToraToraTora]

I suspect YMB they'll be keeping schtum!

[Kardashev]

Unions tend to take action when they think the country is weakened. They don't care about the general well being of the nation. For historical reference, there were strikes during WWI.

[naomi24]

YMB, //And what does Sir Kier and Angie have to say, anyone know?//

I don't know what they've said but this is what a rail union leader says:

//Sir Keir Starmer is “not on the side of workers”, the head of a major rail union has said, as he suggested that other unions are considering their affiliation to Labour.//

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/05/29/rail-unions-consider-leaving-labour-behind-keir-starmer-not/

[ToraToraTora]

I think inevitably Labour will have to split and the unions will support the loony left side. The sensible ones could then prosper as a centre ground party. That will take a while mind!

[ToraToraTora]

nice try gromit.

[dannyk13]

Gromit ?????

[ToraToraTora]

Yes danny, I wondered that too!

[Gromit]

The Department of Transport is to replace Network Rail with a new organisation RailTrack2.*

* RailTrack was the private company running the railways after it was privatised. Unfortunately, it wasn”t very good and there were lots of fatal accidents. Things got so bad, the Government had to (in effect) re-nationalise it. And safety improved over night.

[New Judge]

The problem the Labour Party has with the RMT can be found in the union's "rulebook" under item 4 - Objects, paragraph (b):

"to work for the supersession of the capitalist system by a socialistic order of society;"

Should the Labour Party openly support an organisation whose objective (or "object" as they prefer to call it).is the suppression of the capitalist system (from which many Labour supporters gain a tidy living) it may cost them quite a few votes. Mind you, whether many Labour supporters know that the RMT has such an objective in its sights is questionable. Any of them reading this do now.

[Gromit]

The Government has mandated RailTrack2 with making cost saving on our railways. As well as cutting back on maintenance, they want to make thousands of rail workers compulsory redundant. Rail workers voted 71% to strike over potentially losing their jobs.