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RAIL WORKERS ON £30,000 A YEAR. TRAIN DRVERS ON £55,000 A YEAR AND 10% OF DRIVERS ON £75,000 A YEAR. AND THEY WANT TO STRIKE FOR MORE. THE UNIONS SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. CAUSING HARDSHIP FOR THE COUNTRY. WHO’S NEXT ?. MORE AND MORE PEOPLE
ARE FINDING ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF TRANSPORT.
WILL THEY FEEL SORRY FOR THEMSELVES WHEN
REDUNDANCIES TAKE PLACE DUE TO LACK OF PASSENGERS.THEY WILL PROBABLY BLAME EVERYONE
BUT THEMSELVES.If you have a good point to make you probably don’t need to SHOUT.
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F ASLEF our lner and Gwr trains are still running so me and the grandsons are still going, can’t get back mind you, managed to get a lift home though from someone who’s watching Coldplay Friday and Scunny Saturday. Still waiting Ironawe for your reply lol.
Coldplay one day, travelling with AWG the next, proof that some people really do have the patience of a saint. 😜
Grant Shapes recieves £84,144 basic salary in May of this year he received a payrise of £2,212. He also received £71,673 as minister of state in the cabinet. A whopping £155,817.
Average train driver salaries £24,000-£60,000 depending on experience.
If you take away the right to protest (strike in this case) the gap will widen between the well paid few and a better paid many.
The French manage to protest extremely well and retire at 62 the Macron government tried to raise this to 64 amidst much national protest, theirs remains 62. Ours went up from 65 to 66 and soon to be 67 without even the bat of an eyelid.
MP pensions are based on final salary and paid at 65. Mr Shapps has a personal fortune of £1.2 million and has his own private jet.
If anybody thinks Mr Shapps gives a flying f### about train travellers or train driver salaries they are much mistaken and to curb the right to protest about anything is detrimental the democratic process, which is being slowly eroded anyway.
That’s why the fuel bill for the 400 mile round trip to Maidenhead from Scunthorpe will cost circa £70. Diesel/petrol prices at the forecourt are being artificially held up in line with other energy costs.
Maybe we should worry more about 9:1% inflation on everything, fuel bills of over £3000 per annum. The £200 rise in NI contributions per person since April 1st this year then 100,000 Train drivers getting 7% still below the current rate of inflation.
Might I also suggest that the payrise be paid for out of the additional 4.5 billion for Crossrail up from 14.5 billion to 18.5 billion.
In December 2020 the Government agreed £825 million finance deal with Tfl, the then transport secretary was a one Grant Shapps.
Who by the way is a complete tosser, I would be very disappointed if Ernie is not a Tory, the similarities are too numerous to mention.
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Can we keep our political views and prejudices on the Non Football forum please?
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A reliable rail service nothing to do with football give over, first away game, near to London, loads won’t be there tomorrow who would normally have gone. Everything to do with football without the fans what’s the point?
One or two posts fair enough but hijacking a thread and morphing it into a political debate centring around the rail system is a piss take.
It’s a bit much.
Said before definitely a cnut but not a thick one as you well know.
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