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Post by malc on Aug 17, 2024 10:42:51 GMT
If I recall correctly a significant part of the package for the railworkers was to include reform of working practices, where it takes three or more of them just to change a light bulb ;-) I take it that the Government have taken those reforms out of the deal and just handed over the cash? Driver only trains, very dangerous and an extra pair of eyes is always a good thing. Trains ain't Busses. If they bring in driver only trains, this kind of thing can only get worse. Very dangerous indeed. www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/14/violence-against-women-on-uk-trains-rises-by-50-in-two-years
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 17, 2024 12:09:04 GMT
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 17, 2024 12:13:46 GMT
And had a donor pay for his two day trip to the USA to be ignored by his "friend" Donald Trump. Total cost - £33,000 Two days. £33k. Man of the people !
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 17, 2024 12:19:44 GMT
Trump continues his mission to turn everyone who was on the fence and just might have voted for him, against him.
He's losing what's left of his mind.
In a conference yesterday he equivalenced the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Medal of Honour. Then, doubling down by stating that it was probably the bigger honour of the two by ramblingly stating that some woman he had presented it to was very attractive, whereas the soldiers who win the MoH are messed up or dead.
His campaign is completely imploding. He's falling apart. Harris and Walz are surging. Trumps inner staff are beginning to get frustrated that he won't stay on message and talk about stuff like the economy without drifting off into all manner of weirdness.
There is even dissention now within Fox News where some pro Trumpists are beginning to suggest he's not performing effectively.
Even my pal in Arizona, who's got his finger far more on the pulse than I, is beginning to gain confidence where, whilst Biden was in control, he believed it was lost.
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 17, 2024 12:21:36 GMT
And had a donor pay for his two day trip to the USA to be ignored by his "friend" Donald Trump. Total cost - £33,000 Two days. £33k. Man of the people ! Ah yes, Chris Harborne. Another ardent Brexiteer so wedded to the cause of Great Britain being great he doesn’t even live here. Maybe the ‘nation of serfs’ handle is more accurate than derogatory…
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Post by hedleyverity on Aug 17, 2024 12:24:34 GMT
Nige gets 27k a month for recording messages for people on Cameo. Come on TLOBS, be honest, how much of that is you?
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Post by hedleyverity on Aug 17, 2024 12:27:27 GMT
And had a donor pay for his two day trip to the USA to be ignored by his "friend" Donald Trump. Total cost - £33,000 Two days. £33k. Man of the people ! Ah yes, Chris Harborne. Another ardent Brexiteer so wedded to the cause of Great Britain being great he doesn’t even live here. Maybe the ‘nation of serfs’ handle is more accurate than derogatory… Nigel himself ,of course, lives in the heartland of Brexity patriots, Brussels
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Post by nelly on Aug 17, 2024 12:31:41 GMT
Ah yes, Chris Harborne. Another ardent Brexiteer so wedded to the cause of Great Britain being great he doesn’t even live here. Maybe the ‘nation of serfs’ handle is more accurate than derogatory… Nigel himself ,of course, lives in the heartland of Brexity patriots, Brussels f*cking hypocrite.
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 17, 2024 12:32:55 GMT
Ah yes, Chris Harborne. Another ardent Brexiteer so wedded to the cause of Great Britain being great he doesn’t even live here. Maybe the ‘nation of serfs’ handle is more accurate than derogatory… Nigel himself ,of course, lives in the heartland of Brexity patriots, Brussels It's the hypocrisy and always has been for me. How his support don't seemingly care about that optic will be a mystery to me as long as I have a hole in my arse. I'll never understand it. Lots of people with f*ck all, rooting for a guy with everything including his freedom to drift around Europe. Strange, odd, cap doffing, serf, people. What a strange country we are.
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Post by vicar on Aug 17, 2024 12:36:50 GMT
Nigel himself ,of course, lives in the heartland of Brexity patriots, Brussels f*cking hypocrite. Come on Nelly he's not going to hang around Clacton if he can help it, not on your nelly.
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 17, 2024 13:35:03 GMT
I have to laugh...
The Right - "Good on the Tories for bringing in legislation to restrict our rights to protest. That's great. We can clamp down on lefties, human rights protestors, and Just Stop Oil activists".
Also The Right - "Wahhhhhhh....wahhhhhh they're attacking our human rights with the legislation we supported. We can't protest. Waaahhh"
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Post by vicar on Aug 17, 2024 13:39:31 GMT
I have to laugh... The Right - "Good on the Tories for bringing in legislation to restrict our rights to protest. That's great. We can clamp down on lefties, human rights protestors, and Just Stop Oil activists". Also The Right - "Wahhhhhhh....wahhhhhh they're attacking our human rights with the legislation we supported. We can't protest. Waaahhh" It’s two tier policing I tell you, you can wave a Palestinian flag with impunity yet try to burn down a hostel full of desperate people and you get banged up.
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Post by canterbury on Aug 17, 2024 14:37:41 GMT
I have to laugh... The Right - "Good on the Tories for bringing in legislation to restrict our rights to protest. That's great. We can clamp down on lefties, human rights protestors, and Just Stop Oil activists". Also The Right - "Wahhhhhhh....wahhhhhh they're attacking our human rights with the legislation we supported. We can't protest. Waaahhh" If they were previously cheering on the Tories' creeping restrictions of freedoms to protest, but have since realised it was a bad idea, then I welcome their seeing of the light, as long as they maintain the principle when the protestors' cause is one they're not on board with. Would hope to see the new government reverse the restrictions, in good time, but yeah at this moment it's something they inherited from the last Tory government.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Aug 17, 2024 19:19:48 GMT
If I recall correctly a significant part of the package for the railworkers was to include reform of working practices, where it takes three or more of them just to change a light bulb ;-) I take it that the Government have taken those reforms out of the deal and just handed over the cash? Driver only trains, very dangerous and an extra pair of eyes is always a good thing. Trains ain't Busses. DOO is dangerous. The people pushing for it know it is, but paying guards costs money and that's all they care about.
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Post by vicar on Aug 17, 2024 21:46:45 GMT
Driver only trains, very dangerous and an extra pair of eyes is always a good thing. Trains ain't Busses. DOO is dangerous. The people pushing for it know it is, but paying guards costs money and that's all they care about. As a young man I'd have loved driver only trains, it was quite a difficult job avoiding the Hector on long away trips.
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