Striking again it seems.
Right, first of all, I don’t disagree with the principle of unions. They stop employers taking the piss.
All good.
However, it is possible for employees to take the piss too. Train drivers in Blighty seemingly being the worst of the lot.
They earn a king’s ransom for what appears to be a fairly simple job (although a closed shop of sorts it seems.) Indeed, this article states they’ve had a 39% pay increase since 2011, more than any other role in the land.
But no, the cunts want more and more and fucking more.
Wonder why a train journey costs so much now? Because of these greedy bastards.
Ok, I get wanting the best for you and your family, but I know one of these cunts. Owns three houses, rents two out to students. He’s fucking minted
Good luck to him. But striking for more?
Do fuck off!
I reckon you could double their pay and they’d be out on strike within 6 months with their hands out again anyway. Their strike action causes commuters to do things like park in London or get a taxi to work, leaving them skint or unable to get to work at all.
I’m not one for wanting automated jobs (I don’t even like having robots in factories etc – takes away jobs), but I’d make an exception for these greedy pricks.
Bring on the self driving trains and sack the fucking lot.
Get to fuck.
Nominated by Cuntybollocks.
I’ll just leave this here…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-hQ6-biWoo
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Brilliant!
Nice one Emperor!
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Sadly the shitty ancient network we have means automation is a million miles away .
Even then the cunts would go on strike permanently whilst they were setting it up.
Case in point the ticket offices . Now I actually think having a person who can search the cheapest deal for you is a good thing, as the machines basically charge you the highest rice when it would be easy to set them up to do the opposite .
However , I took a leaflet from ticket office staff the other week to support them in their fight to stop offices being closed . The fat lazy cunts then went off sick the rest of the week .
This is not an uncommon occurrence .
They don’t really help themselves by going sick and demonstrating to all and sundry the fact that they aren’t actually a necessity FFS.
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Sadly the shitty ancient network we have means automation is a million miles away .
Even then the cunts would go on strike permanently whilst they were setting it up.
Case in point the ticket offices . Now I actually think having a person who can search the cheapest deal for you is a good thing, as the machines basically charge you the highest rice when it would be easy to set them up to do the opposite .
However , I took a leaflet from ticket office staff the other week to support them in their fight to stop offices being closed . The fat lazy cunts then went off sick the rest of the week .
This is not an uncommon occurrence .
They don’t really help themselves by going sick and demonstrating to all and sundry the fact that they aren’t actually a necessity FFS.
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Really?
I took Mrs Cunter on holiday.
It must have been 30 year’s ago.
No…. Not the last holiday I took her on.
Anyway, it was long haul.
I can’t remember where exactly.
When we landed the pilot announced that the take off, flight, navigation and landing was totally automated and that no controls were used other than to taxi the plane.
Very impressive.
If they could do that then, in a fucking huge plane then I am sure that trains will be automated by now.
No more cooking bacon and eggs on a shovel in the fire box.
More like watching Pornhub on a laptop with their feet up.
The lazy, greedy, militant cunts.
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I used to think the same but apparently it’s quite hard plus even the DLR (fully automated) has a person on it at all times I believe .
As tech improves , AI etc they’ll eventually get fucked off but not sure I’ll see that in my lifetime and I’ve not hit 50 yet
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I suspect driving any train is even more cushy than an MP’s second, third or fourth job; come to think of it, it’s probably as cushy as actually being an MP.
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I have never understood why they have been allowed to conjure up the mystique about ‘driving’ a train.
Back in the day, when they were called the ‘engineer’, they did have a fairly skilled job of running the steam locomotive. Today, it seems to me that they do fuck all except sit there with their hand on a dead-man’s handle. Do they have any driving skills? Nope – when they press the button, if the thing don’t start they call for help (and sit on their ass until it arrives). Is there any navigation requirement? Nope.
They should be called out – just like Ronnie Reagan did with the air traffic controllers! I’m sure it wouldn’t take too long to train a few East Europeans to hold the handle and fuck the closed shop.
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My father was a fireman on the steam locos Cassandra through the war and up into the fifties. He told of how a good driver/engineer would be economical with the coal and a poor one would burn the coal like it was going out of fashion. Not considering the running costs, my father hated the latter sort because it meant he had to work twice as hard of course.
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That’s how you get to earn good money. You screw the employers to the wall and make them scream. They are all robbing bastards and without you they get fuck all.
That’s until they bring the immos in obviously.
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Yep that will definitely happen eventually , offer them half the salary of what the current ones are on and then force the others out .
The immos will be able to top up their salaries via their earnings at the local car wash/drug dealing money laundering establishment anyway
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Plus they’ll be able to transport all their drugs to London for free
Win win
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Shut the whole train line down and turn all the carriages into home’s for poor, unfortunate, persecuted migrants..
Make the train drivers pay for the conversions..
Then compact the whole lot and sell for scrap to the Chinese..
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Doesn’t bother me. Anywhere in Engand and Wales I just get in the car and drive there. Anywhere farther I fly and hire a car. Cheaper and more convenient.
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You monster!!
Those poor polar bears..
Professor Lineker told us all types of combustion engines are evil..
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My daughter recently went to Cornwall. Despite having a railcard, it was still almost 40% cheaper to fly to Newquay!
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In the capital cities of other developed countries the train networks and stations are impressive and a source of pride.
The Moscow underground stations are show pieces and lit by huge chandeliers.
Some of the París metro stations are beautiful.
Countries take great pride in their main line overground stations.
Despite having the monopoly on public transport in London, and having possibly the highest ticket prices mile for mile in the world, that cunt Khan can’t turn a profit and the stations are fucking horrible.
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Morning TAC, at least Bristol Temple Meads still looks like a proper station.
Beautiful Victorian architecture.
If you squint your eyes when there’s no trains at that exact moment, you could imagine it was still the 1970s.
Then some KFC enthusiasts walk past, dropping litter and talking in their ridiculous language and you’re ripped right back to the ghastliness of modern life.
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I have never used that station Thomas.
On my many trips to Bristol I have used my car.
There was an old bridge that looked like it was made out of tin.
Close by was a multi storey car park.
If you left your car in the car park after dark it would get broken into or stolen.
Not, it might happen.
It was a cast iron guarantee that it would happen to your car.
This was probably more than 30 year’s ago.
Is Bristol still a shit hole?
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Bristol is indeed still an utter shithole.
Either leftie cissies or sooties everywhere and they’ve got a Khan-esque ULEZ, the fucking arsehole council.
Still a pretty area apart from that.
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Friend of mine, back in the eighties AC, stopped at traffic lights in the centre of Bristol. A dark key was going from car to car offering smack for sale.
As for places where theft is guaranteed I can think of three sites off the top of my head where that has applied, in Brum, Walsall and Liverpool. What gets me is that the local plod knew this as well as anyone. Why therefore they didn’t just arrest the thieving bastards one night I can’t fathom.
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Hence why he’s turned to ULEZ £1 billion by the end of the year 👎👎
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The railways are a cunt.
A ridiculous halfway house where private,and often foreign,companies pretend to run a part of the network yet receive billions of pounds in state support yet still manage to have some of the highest ticket prices in the world.
I’ve travelled all over Europe by train and it’s a splendid way to get around when it works..which it doesn’t here.
Put it entirely in private hands or just shut the lot.
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Like everything else in this country the railways primarily exist to screw the customer and the tax payer.
They used to say you get what you pay for but that doesn’t apply in the UK any more.
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The cost of train drivers is a mere drop in the ocean, compared to the huge financial scam that is HS2.
Corruption on the grandest of scales.
This country excels at it.
Good morning.
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Why do you think we are importing so many africunts, so we can be a proper banana Republic.
Morning Jack.
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We’re fucked.
Morning Barry.
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Don’t know if you’ve seen it yet Jack but just yesterday results released of a big enquiry into the progress/prospects of HS2. Seems a very high probability that it just ain’t gonna happen! This after the vast sums of money spent and the huge holes in the ground that have been dug!
Then again, what do you expect of a scheme dreamed up by a foreign homosexual?
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It doesn’t surprise me Arfur. Lots of lovely cabbage will have already been creamed off by big businesses and politicians.
None of them give two fucks for the country or the people.
Same old same old.
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Billions to get to Manchester 20 mins quicker .
What a fucking ridiculous scam
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On the plus side, 20 mins quicker to escape Manc.
As that spoof railway poster had it:
“Leeds – at least it’s not Manchester.”
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This lot are the British Leyland of our times. Unreliable product and useless workforce at a time when demand is falling.
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The railways are not primarily run for the convenience of passengers; they are mainly a means to access massive government subsidies. Passengers are treated as inconvenient scum.
Fuck off.
Good morning everyone.
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Subsidising the railways is fair enough imho. Necker Island doesn’t pay for itself you know.
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Virgin trains are the worst, aren’t they, GT? Bogs in the compartments so the smell of shit is spread evenly! You pays your money, you suck it up.
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One bald headed communist shit stirring cunt has replaced the other bald headed communist shit stirring cunt who fortunately died.
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Fucking ironic considering the pay ratio these useless cunts get, these fuckers get payed more money for doing less work than pretty much any other profession and then the cunts have the neck to go on strike.
Sack em all, i will happily do the training and earn what these fucks get for sitting on their arses all day like politicians……cunts they are
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I dont know, keeping a train on them thin rails could be a bit tricky, plus tube drivers do it in the dark. I keep hearing of driver only trains, no wonder the profits are non existent. Racketeering cunts.
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These cunts have are still running a COVID timetable on my line, which is South West Railcunts, so less trains, despite pre-COVID they spunked millions on making every platform into London Waterloo longer to use larger rolling stock.
The excuse now is they can run a more efficient service with less trains, mathematics would suggest less trains = less clogging of the network = less delays, some cunt on six figures worked that out all on his own, clever little boy (or she/he/they/them).
Now this character, Mick Lynch (aka The Hood from Thunderbirds reincarnated) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_(Thunderbirds)) is holding the country to ransom.
What baffles me is they really don’t need more money. I have never seen a slim, fit looking train driver. They’re all fat pie eating cunts, earning a big wedge.
Let’s put the dinghy dwellers to work and sack these other lazy cunts off.
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£45-70,000 a year.
Same sort of range as a NHS registrar.
A bit steep.for a semi-skilled role.
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Hopefully just the start..
https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/news/press/three-immigration-firms/
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha 😄😂
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When it comes to trains I always thought “driving” was a bit misleading. It’s not like they have to keep to one side of the road or make left turns. The fucking thing runs of tracks.
Featherbedding cunts.
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I used to work with a woman whose husband was a train driver. She said that he suffered terribly with piles, which his gp reckoned was largely a consequence of sitting on his arse all day and getting fat through over-eating.
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They need the extra pay rises to pay for hospital treatment after sitting on their lazy fat arses getting thrombosis. They should be going through the motions of what a real train driver did in the age of steam, to prevent it. It proves they’re stupid besides.
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Things have never been the same since the romance of the steam age. Ah the hiss of steam and smell of cinders on the platform at New St when I were a lad… A journey by train were an adventure out of Enid Blyton.
The drivers put in a shift in them days.
Ho hum. Morning all.
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And we used to call them puff puffs in those days.
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How much this has cost the economy fuck only knows, That militant union leader arsehole is a throwback to the 70’s, No wonder Maggie hated the unions. If a train driver can’t survive on upwards of £50k a year, then something is seriously wrong in society. A year and a half this has been going on. What the fuck has the Transport Minister been doing all this time? Scratching his worthless bollocks and picking his nose? Twat.
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My wife is a teacher , works ridiculously hard, hasn’t been out on strike and gets far far less than these layabout cunts who only need a strong wrist to push the lever to do their job.
Which they get from being massive wankers
And that Lynch cunt can fuck right off
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Wankers.Double oven and industrial sized heater afterwards.
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A savvy rail company would buy driverless rolling stock and start running it without further consultation. A driver’s strike would then be completely futile.
Sad to say, the gravy train companies are extremely resistant to investing in the future, and it is left to the cunt government to piss taxpayers’ money at HS2 (before selling it cheap to a chum, predictably)
The logical conclusion is
(1) to renationalise the rail system – a country this size doesn’t need dozens of gravy trains. No biggie: LNER, Northern Trains, Southeastern, Scotrail, Transport for Wales Rail and TransPennine are already publicly owned.
(2) Shut down the hugely unnecessary HS2 project, demanding compensation for non-performance from the greedy contractors. And fill in the hole in London.
(3) Introduce driverless trains to match the staffless stations – let who will withdraw their labour – there is nothing for them to do.
(4) Bring in a system-wide fares policy which no longer has to make profits for a French hedge fund (eg) but simply has to cover the remaining wages, maintenance and development.
(5) Exhume Beeching’s remains, and after ritual desecration and the pronouncement of a blistering curse, re-inter them in a sewage farm.
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Absolutely 👏👏
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I used to love Ivor the Engine.
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