Strike!

[brogdale]

I normally hate lefties whining about the QT audiences, but this lot really do take the biscuit. So far we’ve been told that it’s monstrous that anyone should complain about pay cuts or being made redundant, some stupid cunt banging on about a rail expo, Fiona Bruce stepping in as a Tory party spokesperson and some snarky Tory openly lying about what a letter says and then reading it out to prove she’s lying. Christ….

The tumbleweed moments that have followed every contribution from Lynch is pretty remarkable.

 

[two sheds]

I normally hate lefties whining about the QT audiences, but this lot really do take the biscuit. So far we’ve been told that it’s monstrous that anyone should complain about pay cuts or being made redundant, some stupid cunt banging on about a rail expo, some posh loudmouth twat (who needs smacking) shouting down someone who actually works on the railway to stop him explaining how the industry is actually organised, Fiona Bruce stepping in as a Tory party spokesperson and some snarky Tory openly lying about what a letter says and then reading it out to prove she’s lying. Christ….

I hate lefties whining about the QT audiences

 

[two sheds]

Have we had this?

 

[Calamity1971]

some stupid cunt banging on about a rail expo,

It's a toss up between her and the other stupid angry cunt on about dinasours.
Fuck me, thought last week was gammon heavy.

 

[Petcha]

Tbf, it was just a grotesque accident it was scheduled in Stratford-upon-Avon tonight and not somewhere a little more representative of the country. That was pretty gross.

The Tory minister at the end, after the lady in the audience told of her mother dying of Covid and not being able to spend the last five weeks of her life with her and as a result she would never vote Tory again. 'I'll meet you in the Kingfisher tomorrow to talk about it' or words to that effect, with a little smirk. Yccch.

 

[The39thStep]

I haven't watched QT for about 4 or 5 years tbh . Poor old Mick must be thinking 'every day I speak to members of my union who by and large are normal people and I've agreed to turn up to a tv program at which a good 90% are hand picked certified lunatics which includes at least two thirds of the panel'. The Tory is ripe for a kicking but the jelly like Labour bloke (who apparently is a barrister) is just a tepid windbag, the CEO of Starling Bank is in cuckoo land and the bombastic business bloke is just a ranter. The chair's main job is just to man mark Mick Lynch , trip him up and disrupt any flow of what he's trying to say.

 

[two sheds]

This is cogent, too (entitled "Why the RMT are on strike"):

 

[The39thStep]

 

[YouSir]

QT and the like are completely pointless, can see why he'd go on but other than Tory headbangers and point counting Centrists no one pays any attention to it. Let it rot away and focus on platforms that actually allow points to be made properly.

 

[two sheds]

Revealed: Top rail firm’s pre-strike payout to shareholders

CEOs of the six biggest train companies also took home a combined salary of more than £5m in 2020

www.opendemocracy.net

here's another surprise

 

[Calamity1971]

Revealed: Top rail firm’s pre-strike payout to shareholders

CEOs of the six biggest train companies also took home a combined salary of more than £5m in 2020

www.opendemocracy.net

here's another surprise

I take it you were being sarcastic sheds .

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Is right

 

[oryx]

Is right

I saw him, and whoever tweeted that is bang on!

 

[Calamity1971]

I saw him, and whoever tweeted that is bang on!

He got way too much airtime.

 

[flypanam]

It’s telling that the audience were all small business owners as they all seem to think that workers need to see the world as their employers tell them too.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I won’t bother with QT on iPlayer then. The audience sound like stupid cunts/Tory plants. And no interest in hearing what the revisionist pip squeak representing the Starmer clique has to say.

 

[flypanam]

I won’t bother with QT on iPlayer then. The audience sound like stupid cunts/Tory plants. And no interest in hearing what the revisionist pip squeak representing the Starmer clique has to say.

It's kind of worth it for the dinosaur woman. swivel eyed loon personified.

 

[Elpenor]

This is cogent, too (entitled "Why the RMT are on strike"):

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I hadn’t seen this - worth noting that 10% for a night / weekend enhancement is more like 6% once you take off statutory deductions. It’s a disgraceful reduction in enhancements for shifts they have no choice but to do - therefore it’s a massive pay cut

 

[philosophical]

Fiona Bruce is a Tory shill, I think she is a racist cunt as well (see her early appearances).
Two successive weeks of a stacked Tory audience, but it was funny when that Tory MP appeared with that ‘explosive’ letter that didn’t say what she said it did, and had to read it out to prove it.

 

[hitmouse]

So, what big events are planned for tomorrow? So far, I know about Liverpool:

Glasgow:

Manchester:

And Gillingham:


Sure there'll be stuff happening in other places as well?

 

[Kev424242]

 

[hitmouse]

Dunno if this is better suited to here or the strikebreaking thread:

Call to investigate safety violations on strike day | TSSA

Rail union TSSA is demanding an investigation into rail safety after reports of multiple trains being sent in the wrong direction and some attempting to leave stations when signals were on red during yesterday's strike.

www.tssa.org.uk

If that's what it's like already, imagine what it'll be like if they actually do get agency staff with five minutes' training in?

 

[muscovyduck]

Dunno if this is better suited to here or the strikebreaking thread:

Call to investigate safety violations on strike day | TSSA

Rail union TSSA is demanding an investigation into rail safety after reports of multiple trains being sent in the wrong direction and some attempting to leave stations when signals were on red during yesterday's strike.

www.tssa.org.uk

If that's what it's like already, imagine what it'll be like if they actually do get agency staff with five minutes' training in?

I've been sounding like a loon this week at work saying that on top of everything else, I'm not getting on a train because I don't trust they're safe right now. But I don't know what anyone was expecting.

 

[krink]

Always being told the Left can't meme but this is a banger

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I've been sounding like a loon this week at work saying that on top of everything else, I'm not getting on a train because I don't trust they're safe right now. But I don't know what anyone was expecting.

Signal passed at red should be an automatic step down of driver and investigation.

 

[Bingoman]

London underground worker have voted for further strike action

 

[hitmouse]

Sheffield:

Swansea and Cardiff:

UNISON Wales rallies send solidarity to striking rail workers | Article, News, Uncategorized | News | UNISON Cymru/Wales

UNISON Cymru/Wales is extending solidarity to all rail workers and the RMT union during its latest day of industrial action.

cymru-wales.unison.org.uk

To demonstrate your support on the third planned strike day, you can join rallies organised in Swansea and Cardiff this Saturday (June 25).

A rally organised by Swansea RMT No1 branch and Swansea Trades Council will take place outside Swansea railway station on Saturday at 9.00 am

A rally organised by Cardiff Trades Council will also take place in front of Cardiff Central Library on Saturday at 12noon.

Bit confused by why there doesn't seem to be anything happening in Newport but hey ho.

 

[Dystopiary]

Spoiler: Cold War Steve

Alt text: Johnson, Raab and Richard Madeley hide under chairs at a large table. Johnson has no clothes on and is wedged under his chair. Mick Lynch stands the other side of the table, looking down at them.

 

[hitmouse]

Dickhead youtuber/livestreamer type complaining that he wanted to confront the RMT pickets but they were all gone before 8pm. I mean, I'm not a fan of having to get up early either, but leaving it till 8 in the evening seems a bit extreme.

 

[hitmouse]

It is quite a smart move tbf, if I had publicly offered out the entire staff of one of the UK's largest train stations I would also be tempted to wait until everyone had gone home and then turn up and complain about them bottling it.