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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: BillyStubbsTears on January 29, 2020, 02:41:11 pm

Title: Another issue that Labour were right on
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 29, 2020, 02:41:11 pm: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51298820

Rail privatisation has been a scandalous mistake. Hopefully, this and the East Coast Main Line debacle is the beginning of the end.
Title: Re: Another issue that Labour were right on
Post by: selby on January 29, 2020, 05:25:06 pm: When you get so much wrong Billy, you are due the odd one right eventually.
Title: Re: Another issue that Labour were right on
Post by: Glyn_Wigley on January 29, 2020, 06:15:05 pm: Quote from: selby on January 29, 2020, 05:25:06 pm
When you get so much wrong Billy, you are due the odd one right eventually.

When's yours due?
Title: Re: Another issue that Labour were right on
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 30, 2020, 09:48:59 am: Well whaddya know?

https://news.sky.com/story/cabinet-ministers-asked-to-cut-back-departments-by-5-11921071?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

By the way, IF this bit happens, it's another issue that Labour has been right about for a decade, and the Tories have insisted is tantamount to Communism.

"The budget is likely to be a significant affair, with new spending on infrastructure paid for by borrowing."

EDIT. Apologies to Albie. Just spotted you posted summat similar in another thread.
Title: Re: Another issue that Labour were right on
Post by: MachoMadness on January 30, 2020, 10:51:09 am: Take it that £350m a week for the NHS int happening then.
Title: Re: Another issue that Labour were right on
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 30, 2020, 03:55:58 pm: Just arrived at Sheffield station after 4 days up and down the country with work.

First thing I hear on the tannoy: "Northern Trains would like to apologise for the cancellation of the 16:06 service (sic) to Nottingham. This is because of a lack of drivers."

Exactly the same thing happened to me on Tuesday getting a train from London to Birmingham.

Now, I may be old school, but I'd have thought that Mission Statement bullet point 1 for a train operating company was a commitment to having enough trains to run the services you charge eye-watering amounts for, and bullet point 2 would be to have enough drivers for the same. Instead, the Kitsons cut the staff to the bone to maximise shareholder return and if that means the odd rush hour train gets cancelled and 200 people are inconvenienced, then f**k them.

Nationalise the lot of the bas**rds and let the parasites make their money somewhere else.
Title: Re: Another issue that Labour were right on
Post by: foxbat on January 30, 2020, 05:48:27 pm: Matt Thomas - Stay In Labour@Trickyjabs

Nov 2019:
Tories announce public spending increases of up to £34bn per year.

Dec 2019:
Tories elected.

Jan 2020:
Tories announce public spending cuts of up to £43bn per year.

Any Tory voters out there getting buyers remorse yet?