Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:15 pm
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!
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.
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.
Re: Strikes
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:01 pm
by Max Fowler
Also, what is 'nixed'? You pesky kids and your newfangled words.
Re: Strikes
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:17 pm
by Proposition Joe
"Nix" - to put and end to; to cancel
eg: by using unisex toilets, all women were nixed
Re: Strikes
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:05 pm
by Max Fowler
Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:17 pm
"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.
Re: Strikes
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 5:48 pm
by The Mindsweep
Mike "you can grow concrete" Graham, being very Mike Graham
Re: Strikes
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:32 pm
by 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.
Re: Strikes
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 9:12 pm
by 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?
Re: Strikes
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 10:02 pm
by Max Fowler
Exactly that. There's no magic money tree, remember.
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:33 pm
by 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?
Re: Strikes
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:06 pm
by 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.
Re: Strikes
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:07 pm
by 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 .
Re: Strikes
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:34 pm
by Max B Gold
RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:07 pm
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 .
RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:07 pm
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.
RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:07 pm
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 .
RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:07 pm
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.
Re: Strikes
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:23 am
by tuffers#1
Re: Strikes
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2023 4:56 pm
by Dunners
Well done to the firefighters.
Re: Strikes
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:16 pm
by The Mindsweep
Dunners wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 4:56 pm
Well done to the firefighters.
Tried to do this a little while ago but Twitter was playing up as per normal lately
Re: Strikes
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:53 pm
by tuffers#1
Re:
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:20 pm
by Chelmsford Swimmer
Friend or faux wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:33 pm
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.
Friend or faux wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:33 pm
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.
