Strikes

[melted welly]

Can say what you like about the striking railway guys, but Mick Lynch has got the number of the media gobshites and politician tossers. And no worrying about offending “corporate partners”.

That’s how you head up a union whose first priority is it’s members.

 

[SteveHants]

Can say what you like about the striking railway guys, but Mick Lynch has got the number of the media gobshites and politician tossers. And no worrying about offending “corporate partners”.

That’s how you head up a union whose first priority is it’s members.

Watching him dismantle pundits and politicians alike has been very satisfying.

 

[MRT]

Looks as though the posties are going to come out as well. Good job I say. Should make everyone realise how totally irrelevant a daily postal service is. I would get rid of 50 % of the posties and go for every 2nd or 3rd day delivery. Why do we need a daily service?

BB

We manage fine with only one train running on time every 2nd or 3rd day in Wales

 

[kiwi pom]

A friend organises casual labour to work on farms, packers, factories etc. He is having a difficult time as a lot of the guys only want to work 3 or 4 days a week now, and occasionally only one, plus he’s plagued with no-shows.

He was in town one day and met a chap who’d called in sick that morning walking down the high street with bags of shopping. When he collared the chap, he was told he couldn’t work that day as it was food bank day and he’d been up to collect his “shopping”.

The crafty beggars will work a short week then head up the food bank waving their payslip for a days work that week and make on that’s all they earn, then come away with food for the week.

Is it a form of wealth redistribution? Feels like old fashioned taking the pee.

Yes everyone looks out for themselves, everyone takes advantage of situations and most people try and get as much as they can for as little effort as they can. Its not just the bottom 10% that do it, look at all the situations the top 1% exploit to get more.
This very forum is full of threads from people wondering about what subs or grants they can get, how they can avoid paying tax, what they can claim as expenses or how they can make their life easier.
Its no different really.

 

[JP1]

Can say what you like about the striking railway guys, but Mick Lynch has got the number of the media gobshites and politician tossers. And no worrying about offending “corporate partners”.

That’s how you head up a union whose first priority is it’s members.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

In the 1970's people tightened their belts and got on with it, I'm not saying that there arent people who are really hard up but when you see newsxarticles about food banks you dont see people who look like they are starving very often well over weight, dressed well etc, like all things poverty is relative

In the 1970's the average percentage of income spent on food was 25%, it is now 10%. So there's plenty of scope to increase percentage of income spent on food, but a lot of people are squealing because that means cutting back on other things. There needs to be education on how to manage money, people have responsibilities as well as rights but that get's forgotten in this PC world.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Can say what you like about the striking railway guys, but Mick Lynch has got the number of the media gobshites and politician tossers. And no worrying about offending “corporate partners”.

That’s how you head up a union whose first priority is it’s members.

Do you think he might be available to give some coaching to the NFU?

 

[kiwi pom]

In the 1970's the average percentage of income spent on food was 25%, it is now 10%. So there's plenty of scope to increase percentage of income spent on food, but a lot of people are squealing because that means cutting back on other things. There needs to be education on how to manage money, people have responsibilities as well as rights but that get's forgotten in this PC world.

You want people to be better at budgeting so they can spend more money on food?

 

[SteveHants]

In the 1970's the average percentage of income spent on food was 25%, it is now 10%. So there's plenty of scope to increase percentage of income spent on food, but a lot of people are squealing because that means cutting back on other things. There needs to be education on how to manage money, people have responsibilities as well as rights but that get's forgotten in this PC world.

And what proportion of income was rent in the 70s?

Rents have gone through the roof since then.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

You want people to be better at budgeting so they can spend more money on food?

Definitely, as has been said in many other posts, there's far more value from buying basic ingredients than takeaways.

 

[Hilly]

This.

I was born in 80 and nothing like this has existed in my lifetime. If my parents are to be believed - born in 48 and 49, one of whom was a primary teacher in some of the roughest parts of Salford in the 70s, it didn't exist then either. I think the last generation to have experienced this was my grandparents.

My parents born in 1930 , my grandmother had three part time jobs and refused to claim out of pride the little money she could have claimed , no food nothing bit it made them better people toug resilient not like now just a bunch of soft wanks .

 

[Hilly]

Can say what you like about the striking railway guys, but Mick Lynch has got the number of the media gobshites and politician tossers. And no worrying about offending “corporate partners”.

That’s how you head up a union whose first priority is it’s members.

Wow , he comes across cool calm and actually sensible show up the others involved to be total fiking idiots .

 

[Hilly]

When mick is done with the trains the BFU should head hunt him !!!

 

[kiwi pom]

Definitely, as has been said in many other posts, there's far more value from buying basic ingredients than takeaways.

That's not budgeting, that's making better choices.
I'd encourage people to spend the same amount just buy other things. Spuds, carrots, rice, pasta, chicken or cheaper beef cuts, mince etc along with a few bags of frozen veg and swap the KFC for a stir fry or a cottage pie.
Change the meal planning around to take advantage of whatever's on special.
No need to spend more to be healthy but don't forget that takeaways are made with farmers produce too.

 

[unlacedgecko]

 

[Hilly]

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The drivers are not on strike , the bog cleaners are .

 

[Hilly]

The woke little pigs claim everything and are proud , you cant say pride is dead its just done a 360.

 

[DrWazzock]

Actually Mick Lynch did come across as credible on the Peston Show the other night.
Maybe not a bad idea that somebody takes a stand against rampant corporatism.

 

[DrWazzock]

Pay rises are averaging 7% across the private sector. That’s what Mick Lynch is asking for. The Tory man said the governments only lever to keep a lid on inflation in the labour market was to screw public sector workers into the ground. This is after a decade of ridiculously low interest rates, money for old rope schemes and nail outs and pumping up the housing market and neglect of energy and food supplies. Well it’s not all Mick Lynchs fault.

 

[Hilly]

Actually Mick Lynch did come across as credible on the Peston Show the other night.
Maybe not a bad idea that somebody takes a stand against rampant corporatism.

Bloody good idea imo , ive only seen little of him but comes over to me straight talkimg
Truthfull type im warming
To a union man ffs cant belive it