Do you support the RMT?

[Gray]

Tories don’t care about those at the bottom.

Have a word with Gordon Brown, he is the reason that nobody gets a company final salary pension scheme anymore.

Utter twat who if I am not mistaken was a LABOUR MP, Treasurer and finally PM after he stabbed Blair in the back.

 

[Phil1]

Have a word with Gordon Brown, he is the reason that nobody gets a company final salary pension scheme anymore.

Utter twat who if I am not mistaken was a LABOUR MP, Treasurer and finally PM after he stabbed Blair in the back.

Yes, you lot have been blaming Labour for anything and everything for well over a decade. It’s time the Tories took some responsibility and work on fixing issues they’ve caused themselves instead of the go to excuse that it’s all Labours fault.

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[bluethrunthru]

Have a word with Gordon Brown, he is the reason that nobody gets a company final salary pension scheme anymore.

Utter twat who if I am not mistaken was a LABOUR MP, Treasurer and finally PM after he stabbed Blair in the back.

I retired last year on the proceeds of two DB final salary pension schemes - they remained that way for over a decade after Brown left office.

Not sure how two men deciding at a meeting in a restaurant before Labour was even elected the upshot of which was that Blair would be PM and Brown would be Chancellor when Blair stepped down can be construed as one stabbing the other in the back.

 

[Gray]

Yes, you lot have been blaming Labour for anything and everything for well over a decade. It’s time the Tories took some responsibility and work on fixing issues they’ve caused themselves instead of the go to excuse that it’s all Labours fault.

I am neither Labour or Conservative but my company pension fund suffered at the hands of that utter ****, it is now in the hands of the PPF.

So please do not use “you lot” when replying to my posts.

 

[Blue Maverick]

@Brewster's millions if all these greedy bastards stopped doing overtime how do you think the rail service would be? Absolutely shite because there would be no **** to do the jobs, why do firefighters have second jobs? Because their pay is shit, no one wants to work on their days off, where do all the locom nurses come from? Burnt out nurses who know that working for the nhs isnt worth it! Are you getting the idea now why people have had enough? Or are you just a troll?

 

[Phil1]

I am neither Labour or Conservative but my company pension fund suffered at the hands of that utter ****, it is now in the hands of the PPF.

So please do not use “you lot” when replying to my posts.

In that case you’re the most non conservative conservative I’ve ever encountered.

 

[Postman Pep]

Quite right, yes, although I suppose it’s just pure coincidence that ASLEF chose to strike on the same day as the RMT.

And the basic point still holds - average salary of an RMT rail worker is reportedly 44k once you exclude cleaning staff, 33k overall according to the government’s data. Last time I looked 44k was well above the uk average.

So you knew for a fact that you were wrong but said it anyway. The rest of your reply suggests it was a deliberate slight of hand to push your narrative of greedy railway workers. It appears its it's not only the RMT with an agenda here.

 

[Scottyboi]

It's all hitting the public now and I can see anger spilling over at some point. To the government, to the workers, I don't know, but people are being affected daily and the mood is shifting.

My new bank card hasn't arrived and Lloyd's are blaming royal mail, saying it was dispatched nearly 3 weeks ago.

They won't issue another new one as the new card hasn't been activated and is still classed as on the way to me, but with more strikes planned I'm starting to get a bit worried that I'll have no way to pay for stuff with a valid card after 31st December. Postie says it's probably in a pile in a sorting office somewhere.

We've already cancelled a gathering this year for my wife's birthday in town because without rail it's too expensive to meet up beyond a hello at someone's house, unfortunately two of the family members who may have attended have now passed. My wife's birthday gift of a trip to London on the 17th December is up in smoke, getting a refund for the hotel and theatre is like pulling teeth. If the teachers take another strike day then I'll have to take unpaid leave. It's all hitting in one go and i can honestly say it's making some ordinary folk pretty damn miserable now.

I've always supported unions in general and many of those striking now as so key to our lives and those of our children, but with this all happening at the same time it's getting harder I admit. Especially when my work has just announced a cost of living increase of 1% as it's all they can afford, take it or leave, figures being banded about with inflation and wage increases of 7-11% seem plain crazy.

And to think Liz Truss pissed millions down the drain in a matter of days. She could have done some real good with that money, reprioritizing our key services like health and transportation, I'm angry with the government mostly over all this, but as I say I can see this spilling over from some now to the workers in the run up to Christmas.

If they can't pay a fair wage they shouldn't be in business it's as simple as that.

 

[hcblue95]

I am neither Labour or Conservative but my company pension fund suffered at the hands of that utter ****, it is now in the hands of the PPF.

So please do not use “you lot” when replying to my posts.

Why don't tories like being called tories?