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Payback time. The unions paid the bribes of around £
09:59 Mon 19th Aug 2024
Payback time. The unions paid the bribes of around £1.8million(hidden as funding) to half the sitting Labour MPs and have so far received around £14billion in rewards. The unions want more ... and will get it. They know where the bodies are buried. The illegal immigrants are all promised citizenship, thereby guaranteeing more will come, in return for their compliance at the ballot boxes in future. The prisons have been emptied of violent thugs and knife carriers to make room for any of the indigenous British who dare to protest about the nefarious policies. The elderly are to be robbed of their assets, and possibly lives, by starving them out or by ensuring that their fragile health is compromised in the cold winter months by either turning off the power and fuel supplies or pricing it beyond their diminished means. At the same time our cherished democracy has been trashed and twisted into ruination by the left wing legal columns. I have warned of the dangers in allowing the legal profession hijack our political systems and now we begin to see what is in store for us. 1984 is now become real. Use you 2 minutes of hate wisely and be aware of the new and exciting thought crime legislation.
The strikes have been costing the country money, and it was a utter disgrace that they were allowed to cause chaos for years. The sooner we get our country running properly again, the better.
Labour have not caved in to the rail unions. The dispute is with the train operating companies, not the Government.
"Labour have not caved in to the rail unions. The dispute is with the train operating companies, not the Government."
Utter rubbish.
The rail industry receives huge subsidies from the taxpayer and the government exerted a heavy "guiding hand" in the negotiations.
Among the things established by the TUC at the start of the dispute in 2022:
· The Transport Secretary has “very extensive powers” over what can be agreed between rail operators and unions, and “very significant contractual power” to direct how industrial disputes are handled.
· Rail operators are not free to agree terms and conditions with their employees without the involvement of the Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps.
· Before discussing any changes to pay, terms & conditions, redundancies, or restructuring with rail unions, rail operators must agree a mandate with the Transport Secretary.
· If a rail operator fails to agree a mandate before any such discussions, it can face financial penalties.
The TOCs were on the point of capitulation in June 2023, saying they were unable to bear the losses resulting from the strikes. The government’s response was to provide the TOCs with £1bn in indemnities against those losses.
One of the reasons the government adopted their guiding hand was because they were determined to end many of the ridiculous working practices enjoyed by rail staff. Among them are these gems:
· For most railway staff, turning up to work on a Sunday is a favour to their employers; they are not subject to a seven day rota.
· A track maintenance team working at (for example) London’s King’s Cross cannot cross over the road to St Pancras, some 50 yards away, to work there.
· A manager who talks to staff about last night’s football results whilst they are taking their break is interrupting them and their break must begin again.
· Managers who call their staff whilst they are off duty to see if they want to work overtime are considered to be “bullying” them (this is one of the principle causes of the LNER weekend walkout by ASLEF staff from the end of this month).
The new government immediately capitulated to the Union’s demands, providing an unconditional pay increase of around 15%, and so those ridiculous working practices will persist.
It was quite right, in view of the huge amount of taxpayers’ money being lavished on the railways, that some form of government control was present. But the government continually insisted it had no role in the negotiations and this was patently untrue.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter too much. The government has pledged to renationalise the railways entirely (bar the Roscos – the rolling stock companies) so everything should soon be hunky-dory. Or maybe i won't.
Hardly crushed the riots. Folk are unlikely to riot every day anyway. Only when there's a trigger.
He has added more occupants to overcrowded gaols though, and got much of the population thinking it's been heavy handed, especially regarding Net posts, and is attempting to remove free "speech". He appears to be a highly controlling PM.
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