Strikes

[Dunners]

Here's another poll:

[Proposition Joe]

Isn’t public opinion now for the strikes? Weird the media reporting is completely at odds with public opinion. It’s almost like they are propaganda machines for people in power.

Is there a yougov poll or something to show this?

Not likely if public opinion is behind the strikers.

Really enjoyed that time a couple of months ago when a former YouGov employee cheerily revealed they'd nixed a poll favourable to Corbyn at the behest of Nadhim Zahawi, then realised he'd screwed his career so deleted the tweets and issued an apology explaining it never happened, actually, and was all a hilarious misunderstanding!

[Max B Gold]

Is there a yougov poll or something to show this?

Not likely if public opinion is behind the strikers.

Really enjoyed that time a couple of months ago when a former YouGov employee cheerily revealed they'd nixed a poll favourable to Corbyn at the behest of Nadhim Zahawi, then realised he'd screwed his career so deleted the tweets and issued an apology explaining it never happened, actually, and was all a hilarious misunderstanding!

Which just goes to show they will go to any lengths to defeat the Left.

[Max Fowler]

Is there a yougov poll or something to show this?

Not likely if public opinion is behind the strikers.

Really enjoyed that time a couple of months ago when a former YouGov employee cheerily revealed they'd nixed a poll favourable to Corbyn at the behest of Nadhim Zahawi, then realised he'd screwed his career so deleted the tweets and issued an apology explaining it never happened, actually, and was all a hilarious misunderstanding!

If you can't see that Corbyn was an active participant in that poll being nixed by being popular with too many people, I don’t know what to say.

[Max Fowler]

Also, what is 'nixed'? You pesky kids and your newfangled words.

[Proposition Joe]

"Nix" - to put and end to; to cancel

eg: by using unisex toilets, all women were nixed

[Max Fowler]

"Nix" - to put and end to; to cancel

eg: by using unisex toilets, all women were nixed

You had to go there, didn't you.

[The Mindsweep]

Mike "you can grow concrete" Graham, being very Mike Graham

[Dunners]

The BBC have produced this helpful guide to which workers have the balls to stand up to continued degradation of wages, terms and conditions, and on which days.

[Long slender neck]

Teachers will strike this winter.

How long can this 'government' just ignore all these strikes?

And what is their argument for denying workers an inflation level rise? That it cant be afforded?

[Max Fowler]

Exactly that. There's no magic money tree, remember.

[Friend or fart]

Today's BBC News:- Rail strikes have cost the UK more than settling the disputes months ago would have, rail minister Huw Merriman has said.
Says it all doesn't?

[Stan1972]

Could we ever have a scenario where every and I mean every industry strikes for 1 day and the entire country shuts down, no tv, radio, shops, schools, businesses, transport, hospitality, emergency services, hospitals, doctors the national grid, electric, gas, water etc…

Only point would be, how would we know if it went ahead, and how would it be reported?

That’s the way this country is going, turn off UK for 24 hours, then see who complains.

[RedDwarf 1881]

I misread the OP. I thought it said strikers . I thought it might have been a list of strikers that were realistic targets we could go after . As for the question , I think everybody's had enough . And before anybody says it , it's not to do with Brexit . Our government are totally free and could have easily improved workers rights . However, the Tories being the Tories chose to go in the opposite direction and attack the working class .I know people on here think I'm right wing but I hate the Tories and have never voted for them .

[Max B Gold]

I misread the OP. I thought it said strikers . I thought it might have been a list of strikers that were realistic targets we could go after . As for the question , I think everybody's had enough . And before anybody says it , it's not to do with Brexit . Our government are totally free and could have easily improved workers rights . However, the Tories being the Tories chose to go in the opposite direction and attack the working class .I know people on here think I'm right wing but I hate the Tories and have never voted for them .

A Brexit denier. You caused this. Own it.

[spen666]

I misread the OP. I thought it said strikers . I thought it might have been a list of strikers that were realistic targets we could go after . As for the question , I think everybody's had enough . And before anybody says it , it's not to do with Brexit . Our government are totally free and could have easily improved workers rights . However, the Tories being the Tories chose to go in the opposite direction and attack the working class .I know people on here think I'm right wing but I hate the Tories and have never voted for them .

A Brexit denier. You caused this. Own it.

Not sure how any rational person can deny Brexit ? It happened.

[Long slender neck]

I misread the OP. I thought it said strikers . I thought it might have been a list of strikers that were realistic targets we could go after . As for the question , I think everybody's had enough . And before anybody says it , it's not to do with Brexit . Our government are totally free and could have easily improved workers rights . However, the Tories being the Tories chose to go in the opposite direction and attack the working class .I know people on here think I'm right wing but I hate the Tories and have never voted for them .

A Brexit denier. You caused this. Own it.

More like you're a Tory denier.

[Max B Gold]

I misread the OP. I thought it said strikers . I thought it might have been a list of strikers that were realistic targets we could go after . As for the question , I think everybody's had enough . And before anybody says it , it's not to do with Brexit . Our government are totally free and could have easily improved workers rights . However, the Tories being the Tories chose to go in the opposite direction and attack the working class .I know people on here think I'm right wing but I hate the Tories and have never voted for them .

A Brexit denier. You caused this. Own it.

More like you're a Tory denier.

[tuffers#1]

[Dunners]

Well done to the firefighters.

[The Mindsweep]

Well done to the firefighters.

Tried to do this a little while ago but Twitter was playing up as per normal lately

[tuffers#1]

[Chelmsford Swimmer]

Today's BBC News:- Rail strikes have cost the UK more than settling the disputes months ago would have, rail minister Huw Merriman has said.
Says it all doesn't?

What's your alternative, just give all strikers what they ask for straight away. If you ran a business in that manner, you soon wouldn't have a business left. Also works both ways, I suspect that many strikers have lost more in wages than they ultimately gain.

[Long slender neck]

Not likely over time I'd have thought.

[StillSpike]

Today's BBC News:- Rail strikes have cost the UK more than settling the disputes months ago would have, rail minister Huw Merriman has said.
Says it all doesn't?

What's your alternative, just give all strikers what they ask for straight away. If you ran a business in that manner, you soon wouldn't have a business left. Also works both ways, I suspect that many strikers have lost more in wages than they ultimately gain.

The problem is, you can't say "we don't have the money to do that" as your excuse for insisting people accept a real terms pay cut, and then suddenly find more money than you said you didn't have in order to pay for the disruption.