Mick ‘Grinch’ Holding The Country To Ransom Has Called More Dates To Strike

[Bobbisox1]

I feel for all those people who want to be with their family’s this Christmas, they’ve now included Christmas Eve in their disruption, my opinion is he’s trying every thing he can to bring down the Government, shades of Arthur Scargill, 8% over two years is no good to him, why can’t he see there is no money in the pot to meet his extravagant demands
https://news.sky.com/story/fresh-rail-strikes-planned-over-christmas-as-rmt-union-turns-down-pay-offer-12762377

[Ellipsis]

> The two are not comparable.

They are, which is why I did!

Both relate to people's incomes today. Some people get their incomes raised in line with inflation, others don't. The train drivers want to be with the haves, not the have-nots.

[andy-hughes]

Ellipsis - //
> The two are not comparable.

They are, which is why I did!

Both relate to people's incomes today. Some people get their incomes raised in line with inflation, others don't. The train drivers want to be with the haves, not the have-nots. //

They do relate to people's incomes, but one income is derived from employment, and one is derived from the government. Hence the differences I pointed out in my post.

And as pensioners, there is no point in us 'going on strike' - we have no labour to withdraw!

[JDavis]

Is Mick Lynch also responsible for the nurses, ambulance workers and postal staff?

[Gromit]

On the plus side, AB writers are telling me Mick Lynch intends to bring down the Government by Christmas Day. If only that were true :-)

[Ellipsis]

> And as pensioners, there is no point in us 'going on strike' - we have no labour to withdraw!

No, just a vote ... which is why the triple lock is not being scrapped. It's a bribe.

By the way, the triple lock was only introduced in 2010. All of those years you were paying into your pension, when your predecessors were drawing theirs, there was no triple lock. So you are not entitled to an inflation linked rise, any more than anyone else paid by the government - like, say, the nurses - is entitled to one.

[Gromit]

Ellipsis is correct.
// Between April 2010 and April 2016 the value of the state pension has been increased by 22.2%, compared to growth in earnings of 7.6% and growth in prices of 12.3% over the same period. That means pensioners have seen their incomes rise at almost double the pace of the average worker. //
- The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) 2017.

These election bribes are difficult to shake off.

[jno]

the Border Force are striking over Christmas, that should stop those immigrants in their tracks.

[ynnafymmi]

@22.50.After he brings down the English nationalists down in London,could you send him up to Edinburgh to bring down the nationalist aerosoles we have up here in Scotland?