Tube strikes anyone affected?

[meghatronic]

Further evidence of why striking should be made illegal. At least for key services.

I still can't look a fireman in the eye.

 

[Efour]

Further evidence of why striking should be made illegal. At least for key services.

I still can't look a fireman in the eye.

Your Hen night reoccurring nightmare? I feel your pain

 

[Participant]

I still can't look a fireman in the eye.

Stirring feelings you'd rather were left unstirred

 

[Cosimo]

I still can't look a fireman in the eye.

Why is that?

 

[meghatronic]

Why is that?

The strikes. I thought that was obvious!

 

[Cosimo]

The strikes. I thought that was obvious!

Yes and did your house burn down or what? Or don't you just approve of strikes or firemen?

 

[meghatronic]

Yes and did your house burn down or what?

I don't expect to have a heart attack but it's nice to have an ambulance 8 mins away.

 

[Cosimo]

I don't expect to have a heart attack but it's nice to have an ambulance 8 mins away.

Nobody does, did you have one?

 

[Jonny69]

Where's Dolph? He should be here blaming the Labour government for this

I've noticed the trains have been very busy today and yesterday, plus there's been a ridiculous amount of traffic as far out as Croydon. It hasn't helped that the schools are back this week.

 

[Participant]

Obligatory 'go and Google "Amateur Transplants - London Underground Song"' post.

 

[meghatronic]

Nobody does, did you have one?

No, but I pay tax + NI + council tax to ensure that that ambulance is there come what may.

The fire service, to all extents, wasn't. If it wasn't for the Military (which apparently struggled to bursting despite the good press), how many people would've died?

Where's Dolph? He should be here blaming the Labour government for this

Well it is their fault

 

[Wicksta]

Apparently the tube workers were getting annoyed because the TfL wanted to get rid of staff at stations where they sell less than 10 tickets an hour

When will they get real and get it into their thick skulls that the tube service is overstaffed in some points and needs to be reduced. They seem to think the world owes them a job

The thing is though there are going to be no compulsary redundancies, which makes the strike action seem even more selfish.

There was some union idiot on LBC yesterday (can't remember his name, not Bob Crow the other Northern Irish one) and when asked if he thought he had public support he said "I don't care what middle class people think". He also went on a childish name calling rant.

 

[Muffin`]

The fire service, to all extents, wasn't. If it wasn't for the Military (which apparently struggled to bursting despite the good press), how many people would've died?

The categorically stated that if a life was in danger, they'd leave the picket line. But don't let that get in the way of a good bitch

 

[steve-h]

No, but I used the train the other day... £3.80 for two 5minute journeys :/

I wont be using a train again (which translates to I'm not buying a ticket unless I'm asked for one)

 

[meghatronic]

The categorically stated that if a life was in danger, they'd leave the picket line. But don't let that get in the way of a good bitch

Then why strike if you're going to break picket? And they didn't where I live. They had a BBQ most days. Despite people being burnt alive. People that paid their wages.

 

[Muffin`]

Then why strike if you're going to break picket?

Because they don't want people to die? And how else can they show their dismay at a below inflation wage rise in a sector like the fire service? Write a strongly worded letter saying how upset they are?

Despite people being burnt alive.

Citation needed.

 

[rypt]

And how else can they show their dismay at a below inflation wage rise in a sector like the fire service?

And private sector gets yearly above inflation rises always?

 

[Patient Keeper]

Was the best day on the tube today for a long time

 

[Yas786]

Affected me today big time as i use the central line myself and from leytonstone to white city its closed due to the strikes...ended up having to take the overground train to stratford then jumping on the jubilee to Canary wharf which isnt fully shutdown but from stratford its only running to waterloo.

 

[Muffin`]

And private sector gets yearly above inflation rises always?

What?