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Hypo just hates train drivers and wants to see them replaced with computers, he may one day get his dream but the network us nothing like ready for such a change it is falling apart and crumbling around us. Wait till he realises the knock on impact of cancelling HS2 is unbelievable Delays on the west coast mainline in a few years as all the track needs to be replaced. The UK rail network is antiquated and desperately needs modernisation which isn’t going to happen without a government spending billions. Train drivers pay isn’t the problem with the railways!

Trump was found liable for sexual abuse (rape) in a court of law, it is just semantics arguing that he doesn't have a conviction he has what amounts to one. Do you hold everyone who worked at the CPS at the time of Saville responsible? The cleaners the door men etc etc. I'm not sure why you think it is relevant in the crimes of others either but I guess the Tory media keeps reminding you to b angry about it so you concentrate on that and the boats while they eat your cake

It's a funny one, it's based on paid periods of work I think and doesn't really take into account that many GP's are part time and they invariable work longer than each paid period of work. The fact that it is in the Tory graph and being used by the likes of GM as a beating stick for doctors tells you pretty much all you need to know about the situation, obviously the entire problem with the NHS is greedy, lazy doctors an nurses and if they would just nuckle down and work longer hours for less money all the problems would go away or it's just yet another right wing 'othering' while the rich boys make off with all the money!

but not a fare wage it would seem?

It's god to see the Daily Telegraph RSS feed is still working on the forum, maybe consider broadening you reading it might open you eyes a little.

That would be bold after 2 years out injured, I’m hoping the club ease him back in with a few more 20 minute cameos.

You have to factor in the average IQ of a football fan, the game has always attracted more than it’s share of mouth breathers and knuckle draggers. Didn’t expect a result today, at least it looks like the manager has had a dose of realism and went with a more pragmatic approach and lineup today.

Any negotiated settlement is a political choice but when you look at the numbers involved and consider it is a three year long dispute then it isn't actually particularly offensive 2022 - 5% - Below inflation at the time (state pension increase 3.1%) 2023 - 4.75% - Below inflation at the time (state pension increase 10.1%) 2024 - 4.5% - Above current rates of inflation (state pension increase 6.7%) So really all you've got is that it was paid to people who had already left and no strings were attached, attaching conditions to what is essential a pay cut in the first two years seems a little harsh and if the government had negotiated a settlement in good time then the people wouldn't have left before they got paid what was due so blame them. I think we can all agree that there needs to be some changes in the railway industry but painting this pay settlement as a really big deal is probably just petty jealousy of the train drivers and their strong union. The last government didn't even talk to the union for over a year!

tax payer prop up the entire privatised rail service while it pays dividends to it's share holders it is an appalling scam that will hopefully come to an end all it has achieved is making rich people and foreign companies richer at the exchequers cost!

The junior doctors and train drivers pay rises were negotiated settlements of long running pay disputes and both were below what the unions were asking for, some sort of compromise was inevitable who ever was in government particularly in the Junior doctors case where they actually settled way below what they had initially demanded. The pay offers were always going to be above the current rate of inflation because the disputes started when inflation was higher and hadn't been resolved because the previous government essentially failed to negotiate in good faith and failed to put a reasonable offer on the table. The conservatives may have kept the rises lower but they would inevitably have come and inevitably been above the current rate of inflation, what the Labour government did was act swiftly to bring to an end the disputes and the disruption they cause. Will you be complaining when the pension goes up way above the current rate of inflation this year? or pay in the private sector outstrips inflation or is it just unionised workers you object to being fairly rewarded?

surely nobody could describe that a trashing it! I suspect he's been watching Laura Kuenssberg who I would say stretched the idea that the BBC is politically neutral to the very limits of credibility, she might as well be a paid up member of the Tory party.

The pay rises were coming regardless of who as in government, the junior doctors and train drivers situations would have had to be settled eventually and the others were in line with the pay review boards recommendations. Care to link to the interview you watched?

for something to screech to a halt implies it was going somewhere quickly, UK economic growth has been sloth like for over a decade blaming any recent blip on the current government seems a bit childish when they have only been driving for the blink of an eye

Wage control how funny, unionised salary negotiations have been part of British life for over 100 years or so under all governments was it wage control when the Tories negotiated with the unions? The way you post in this thread really is quite amusing even if it does strongly resemble the style of a troll, in you pop every now and then with some latest slightly controversial gotcha type post that you think backs up your world view. Lots of people post counter arguments which you roundly ignore before posting some similar usually false/biased gotcha that you think reinforces your most recent point followed by more ignoring of the responses. Give it a couple of days you will be back with some other right wing fallacy copy and pasted from some echo chamber of a news outlet, good luck to you if it makes you happy but no matter how many times you say it Harris and Starmer will never be Marxists, Farage will never be PM and Trump will never be a decent honest human being

No way he is signing a contract of that length here sadly!

He's clearly a good player and will hopefully go on to be top draw, but that goal is a bit m'eh count how many players actually try and tackle him.

Why is 'woke' used as some sort of insult? seems a pretty sensible thing to be to me if you want to be leader of a political party or nation! 'aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially of racial and social injustice.'

I find it difficult to imagine a less inspiring leader than Jenrick, this is a man so corrupt that even Boris had to give him the boot! He makes SKS look like the king of charisma which is probably his only impressive contribution to politics to date!

What wonderful times we live in when those two are the best the Tory party can dredge up! A serial failure and a raving lunatic, I don’t see either of them winning the next election as they have about as much appeal to the centre as a pack of hungry lions does to a zebra!

I’d echo those thoughts, I thought he was a great appointment and he brought some good players with him sadly it didn’t work out and like you say it was all down hill from there. Things could have been very different if we’d won that penalty shoot out against Derby! Best of luck to George and his family I hope this is a fight he wins.

Not sure why anyone is calling that a wonder goal I counted zero actual tackles made while he ran in basically a straight line up the pitch! Reminded more of Marsden's ‘wonder goal’ rather than Maradona’s actual wonder goal!

Trickle down economics proven time and time again to work perfectly ........ if you are rich, the economic equivalent of been pee'd on from a great height. It's right up there with the old we can't tax the mega rich anymore or they will all leave the country.....

It shouldn’t take much beyond being coherent and stable, DonOLD is starting to look nearly as dodgy as old Joe!

Oooooooh look a Brexit supporter cherry picks one graph that they think shows that the UK economy is out performing some major European ones and posts it to the internet pretending that they have finally found the gotcha tat proves Brexit was a success. While everyone else groans and points them to the bigger picture where all experts agree that the Brexit decision has had a significant, ongoing and long lasting negative impact on the UK economy, look even the governments own Office for Budgetary Responsibility spells it out and has done consistently since the referendum. https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/the-economy-forecast/brexit-analysis/#assumptions I know you won't listen and you'll be back in another week or two to post yet another amazing Gotcha because we did better than an EU economy at something, sadly some people can't be reached they have wedded themselves so heavily to an idea that they will never accept they were wrong/hoodwinked by rich establishment types.

Was he interfering with play though lol