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Train Strikes

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Edin Nowhere, Jun 21, 2022.

  1. Edin Nowhere

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    Is anyone troubled by the train strikes today? Beyond getting in and out of Leeds the train connections in the north are dire. It should not take the best part of an hour to get to Manchester. Therefore in the north of England I can see these strikes only doing a fraction of the damage that will be done across the South.

    Strangely those who will suffer the most are those who have the best rail links in the whole of the UK, the rest of us really have little option and a bus ride to Leeds is a minor hardship for a few days.

    Also the last two years won't help the strikers in the slightest, as a work from home culture will mitigate the damage done to some extent. I'd be surprised if many people didn't pencil in a work from home day on days like this where it is possible to do so.
     
  2. Rogered Tart

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    The infrastructure in the North of England is virtually non existent. A densely populated area of two major cities like Leeds and Bradford and it takes you well over an hour to get anywhere on the roads. The trains are just an afterthought for Bradford, the poor old girl left behind as the rest of the world moves on.
     
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    So much for the Northern Powerhouse.
    Powered by fresh air.
     
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  4. bantam65

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    Powered by hot air more like.
     
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  5. Tony Wilkinson

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    Face of todays and the 1970's Labour party....

    labour.jpg
     
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  6. trevor

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    Hard for anyone to negotiate with a government that will not tell the truth and lies through its teeth at every opportunity in its own interest, The media should call them out but unlikely with the BBC frightened to death of the government and getting rid of reporters with a left wing connection such as Lewis Goodall
     
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  7. Offcomedun

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    No wonder you're so permanently paranoid about reds under the beds, if you can't tell the difference between the mainstream centre left Labour Party and the deluded far left nutters in the Socialist Workers Party.
     
  8. Tony Wilkinson

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    Joined at the hip mate, joined at the hip....
     
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  9. Offcomedun

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    In your fevered, McCarthyite imagination. But nowhere else.

    The SWP are a tiny, insignificant, rent-a-mob, who show up at every public event or demo with their placards and their ludicrous revolutionary nonsense. At one point they had the massive sum of 2000 members nationwide. The number is almost certainly even lower now. They give the impression of being much bigger than they actually are because they are mostly obsessives who dedicate their entire lives to the party and to hijacking other people's causes.
    They are despised by most people in the Labour Party.
     
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    The Socialist Workers Party have an assembly in Bradford this Thursday, 19:00, opposite the ice rink (the building between the new brewdog pub and the ice skating rink).
     
  11. Offcomedun

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    Why would anyone care?
     
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    Thought you might have been interested in attending.
     
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  13. Tony Wilkinson

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    'Workers' is a bit of a misrepresentation.....
     
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    You are quite right mate but unless your stance on the dispute is a bit tongue in cheek your view on the situation would appear to be a bit outdated
     
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    Once had a run in with this mob outside Forster square station. They had the set up with their tables and magazines and some strange people with some very strange views. Tried having an intellectual debate with them but alas it was impossible.
     
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    Why on earth would you think that?
     
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    Nope, deadly serious as usual, you have the RMT striking in support of the workers by preventing the workers from getting to work...!!
     
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  18. bantamlad92

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    :joy: Sounds about right.
     
  19. Edin Nowhere

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    The Socialist Spongers Party.
     
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  20. YungNath

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    And yet under the conservatives we're in for a summer of discontent with rampant inflation because they can't manage the economy properly.
     
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