Do you support the RMT?

[WestGorton]

I am super moderate but we again have liars in government like we did in the eighties. Oh for a John Major or Gordon Brown. Not perfect but not bad people. We are divided.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Seriously mate, how many kids actually get a train to school?

At my primary and secondary school nobody I knew got a train and I am pretty certain the overwhelming majority of school kids are at most a bus ride away from their school. My best mate actually moved house so he would fall under a schools catchment area, his kids were then a bus ride away.

Plenty get the train to high school and college. Obviously depends on the area

There’s carriages full of kids getting the train from places like Disley/ new mills to get to college in Stockport - not private schools.

There’s also lots of kids from handforth that get the train to wilmslow high school.

I get on those same trains in the morning and evening for work.a lot of the kids don’t live in the same catchment area as their school.

 

[west didsblue]

Your just coming across as very bitter.
I don’t need to call you a **** because I am sure in real life your probably not.
To be honest, I don’t really give a shit about what you really think about me because, not on a wealth basis, but, intellectually, ideologically or socially, I think we can safely say our paths are very unlikely to cross.

I haven’t actually called you a ****. I said you come across as a **** because you seem not to give a shit about anyone else and love to boast about your own situation, and I too don’t expect our paths will cross because I prefer people who aren’t totally self obsessed and who aren’t stupid enough to automatically assume that anyone who disagrees with them must be at the other end of the political spectrum.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

CWU balloting both postal and openreach in the coming weeks. NASUWT have confirmed they are too, maybe other teaching unions will follow suit?

The opportunity for some form of coordinated action to coincide with the next energy price hike could be on the cards. Opposition to this government has to come from somewhere.

Cheeky bastards 2 percent they’ve offered

 

[BerkshireBlue]

I am afraid the lefties don’t understand basic Economics and inflation so your wasting your time.
Not quite sure what you mean by proper taxation.
If you mean effective rates of 98% when the Investment Income Surcharge was in place during the 1970’s when Mr Silly Billy was Chancellor it ain’t going to work in a modern economy where the rich can move their wealth to anywhere in the World.

What I mean is a global taxation policy not local taxation as that hasn't worked and will never work. It needs an effort from all countries and if certain countries don't like that then no company from that country or have owners that operate in the that country is allowed any trade with the complying countries. It doesn't need to be 50% rate just a 10% rate then the local taxation can pick up the rest. I don't see why the status quo is good enough needs proper thought and proper leadership

 

[metalblue]

That's from my own experience of the region I live in. This was compounded by the Covid timetable where the services were reduced by 50%. Trains which key workers used to go to work were cut. However a phone call from a Tory MP managed to organise a special train service that ran express so his son and other kids could attend private school there and not wait an hour for the timetabled service coming back. Just goes to show it's who you know.

Amazing that a national strike is called and all of a sudden Tories are screaming "What about the children!" When they were happy to send them to infect each other and everyone else during the pandemic.

I used to get a mainline train service that randomly stopped at one particular station… apparently because the train company owner lived there and that was the train he got. So I can well agree with you it’s not what you know but who … the world is full of it mate,

You’ve always struck me as a decent person and I don’t know the ins and outs of your issues but I’m in no doubt they are fair and reasonable - I also imagine the timing of this strike probably doesn’t sit all that well with you either as you do care. I wish you well in your actions and hope you get a speedy outcome.

 

[metalblue]

That's a stretch. Convoluted nonsense.

Oh do explain what is convoluted nonsense….

 

[halfmist]

I haven’t actually called you a ****. I said you come across as a **** because you seem not to give a shit about anyone else and love to boast about your own situation, and I too don’t expect our paths will cross because I prefer people who aren’t totally self obsessed and who aren’t stupid enough to automatically assume that anyone who disagrees with them must be at the other end of the political spectrum.

Apologies, I misinterpreted you saying “your coming across as a ****” as your interpretation as to what a **** is and not some one else’s.
I have no idea who you mix with.
What I have found through life and perhaps you would even agree with me here is that Social Mobility upwards is incredibly difficult to achieve in this Country .
Most stay within their own Social Circles through life which definitely affects their ability to get on believe me
I am sure a lot on here would say it’s down to lack of opportunities caused by the Government.
Having read all the posts on here I am not too sure.
Most opportunities I have been given is because I have gone out of my comfort zone, kept stum when I needed to , not argued about someone being a ****, selfish or a smug bastard when they are prepared to talk freely about their particular circumstances.
It has paid dividends handsomely because that has opened doors and gave me new opportunities and got me up the career ladder when needed.
What the middle classes and the professionals are very uncomfortable with is in the company of friends , colleagues etc who are bitter about their success or what they want to spend their new found wealth on
It is so frustrating that some, including quite a few on this site have so much inbuilt bitterness about anyone who has managed to get on, that those that that could help them with a lift up , financial backing, advice, new job opportunities tend to avoid such bitter company like a plague.
People I know who would be perfect for jobs I have not put forward because of an attitude problem.
I have seen this happen so many times at Social events your definitely holding your selves back with an inbuilt attitude problem towards self made people .
The opportunities are then given to the less talented but who are a safer pair of hands as they don’t carry a chip on their shoulder and the Social Strata changes very little
I feel extra sorry for kids who are brought up in the environment accept your lot it’s not your fault if you don’t do well, it’s down to the Government.
What hope have they got

 

[Rascal]

Plenty where I live. Long gone are the days of kids having to go to their local state school like I did. I’d also add that when the bedroom tax or whatever it was called was being proposed the left where up in arms because of the handful of husbands and wives who had separate bedrooms due to disabilities. The very reason the left oppose policies is always down to the outlying people it impacts, never the majority. The hypocrisy is a bit sickening.

Usually pal you put up a decent counter argument, this time I do not even see a point.

I consider myself a student of RW viewpoints, I read voraciously so that i can understand why. All you have done my friend is parrot the Mail etc etc

The classic RW attack is hypocrisy , usually around the things that the owners of capital want to attack the working class on the behalf of the owners of capital.

Majoritism, BTW is classical Fascist speak, its a base assumption based on ones own feelings and ones echo chamber. Speaking for the silent majority is now in our political lexicon, the problem is lots of people in this country are disengaged and that saddens me, but its no accident. Keep the working class uneducated and they are no threat, its feudalism.

The left never moans about high pay, the right always moans about high pay for the poor

We need a revolution... now

 

[halfmist]

What I mean is a global taxation policy not local taxation as that hasn't worked and will never work. It needs an effort from all countries and if certain countries don't like that then no company from that country or have owners that operate in the that country is allowed any trade with the complying countries. It doesn't need to be 50% rate just a 10% rate then the local taxation can pick up the rest. I don't see why the status quo is good enough needs proper thought and proper leadership

You will never get a Global taxation policy ever.
We can’t get the World to agree on Global warming which is killing the planet
Someone will always cut and run