Watching union thugs at the RMT holding hundreds of thousands of hard-working passengers to ransom every day so they can force through a four-day work week and reduce their hours at the same time is quite sickening.
And, have you noticed, that senior Labour politicians haven’t said a word for the hard-pressed commuters, with the reality being that Starmer and Khan have more in common with those causing the pain than they have with the victims.
All this week, RMT (Rail Maritime and Transport) tube drivers will be on strike, causing nightmares for London and South East passengers every day.
However, Aslef drivers (they are split 50-50 with the RMT) are quite happy with the deal, which means they do the same number of hours but do them over four days rather than five.
I’m sure we would all kill for that deal.
Not the RMT. They claim their members will suffer burnout with those hours and that it’s a safety risk. That must be one of the great industrial jokes of all time.
After all, it’s an unskilled job. There’s nothing to learn. All they have to do is follow the rails. And for that they pick up, on average, £72,000 a year.
The reason they make so much money is not because of their skillset or intellect but because they can hold us all to ransom. I’m old enough to remember coal miners doing the same. And then along came Mrs Thatcher who took them on.
I’m old enough to remember the NGA and Sogat printers who did what the Tube drivers are doing. Then came Wapping and Rupert Murdoch took them on.
My issue is when a politician is going to take on the Tube and train drivers. It can’t happen until 2029 when Starmer is thrown out. Labour loves the unions more than it loves the voters.
Sadiq Khan's silence on the Tube strikes is logical once you learn where his loyalties lie - Kelvin MacKenzie
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Doesn’t Labour consider that ordinary people need to be protected from the union bullies? Or do they believe it’s the price of receiving money into their coffers from the RMT and the like?
Starmer might claim that he’s been too busy telling lies in the Commons to focus on the dispute. Fair enough, but what about his Secretary of State for Transport, the useless lump of lard Hilary Alexander?
Whose side is she on? We’ll never know, as she has taken a code of omerta. As has Mayor Khan. How can you be Mayor of a great city like London and not be prepared to say that a strike is just plain wrong?
After all, Aslef has said publicly that there shouldn’t be a strike. So, a rival union is critical while the Transport Secretary says nothing. How do these people sleep at night?
The only political party to come out in favour of the strike is the Greens. They have nothing in common with people who go to work, so it was an easy call for them. They’re a joke and should be ignored.
In the event Reform comes to power in three years, I am hopeful, but not convinced, that they will take on the RMT. I say that only because I haven’t seen their industrial strategy yet.
Somebody somewhere has to stand up for the passengers. Right now, they stand alone. So wrong.