UK politics - Hamsterwheel
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Originally Posted by racedo
Friends travelling on Southern Train services before election were surprised by amount of Tory voters who were quite happy at idea of Labour renationalising Railways. Bearing in mind the crap service on Southern and Thameslink they viewed it asa better idea that current.
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Originally Posted by Hussar 54
Can't believe Government owned DB, RATP and Abellio ( in particular ) are going to let Labour simply renationalise the railways and bus services without getting really, really nasty during the BREXIT negotiations.
There's a school of thought that says all that's needed is to let the franchises expire........
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Corbyn addressed a crowd at Glastonbury yesterday and told them we needed to build bridges, not walls.
Meanwhile, outside Parliament, walls have to be built on bridges to protect people from the terrorists he worships.
Meanwhile, outside Parliament, walls have to be built on bridges to protect people from the terrorists he worships.
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Originally Posted by Jet II
and then what?
Subsequently, of course, trade union militancy would re-asset itself and the railways would start being run for the convenience of the employees rather than the travelling public.......
Gnome de PPRuNe
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Originally Posted by sitigeltfel
Zoom in on the beer mug at the bottom right...
A pint of Corbyn: promises much, but full of gas and leaves an unpleasant aftertaste.
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Originally Posted by Andy_S
The government would run them. (They actually did this with GNER for a while).
Subsequently, of course, trade union militancy would re-asset itself and the railways would start being run for the convenience of the employees rather than the travelling public.......
Subsequently, of course, trade union militancy would re-asset itself and the railways would start being run for the convenience of the employees rather than the travelling public.......
Still, that's private enterprise for you.....but enjoy your wallow in nostalgia when it comes to trade unions.....always guaranteed to enhance the status of the poster here on JB with similar minded chaps.
Siti....a teensy point as your own cup doth currently floweth over in some respects, well in respect of Labour and Corbyn anyway, could you kindly expand the photograph or offer a close up of the beer mug in question in order that we may read what is inscribed and which, presumably, doesn't meet with your approval, but may possibly meet with the approval of others?.......and, while you're at it, true, there are now obstructions on bridges, but I'm having difficulty in finding any comments by Corbyn that he worships extremist terrorists groups providing the ideology that results in the terror attacks in the UK...
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Originally Posted by sitigeltfel
Corbyn addressed a crowd at Glastonbury yesterday and told them we needed to build bridges, not walls.
Meanwhile, outside Parliament, walls have to be built on bridges to protect people from the terrorists he worships.
Meanwhile, outside Parliament, walls have to be built on bridges to protect people from the terrorists he worships.
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Originally Posted by Krystal n chips
could you kindly expand the photograph or offer a close up of the beer mug in question in order that we may read what is inscribed and which, presumably, doesn't meet with your approval, ...
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Originally Posted by Krystal n chips
And, surprisingly enough the GNER generated a profit, until bearded rail obtained the monopoly of both the West and East Coast mainlines after which, the East Coast has hardly been a resounding success.
Originally Posted by Krystal n chips
....but enjoy your wallow in nostalgia when it comes to trade unions.....
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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Khan was elected mayor of London on 6th May 2016, so he had a year to put in the barriers if they were considered necessary, he didn't. The attack on Westminster Bridge took place on 22nd March, again he had the opportunity to take advice and install the barriers, again he didn't.
The London Bridge attack took place on 3rd June and the barriers have been installed within a couple of weeks, so they could easily have been installed either early in the year or after the Westminster attack. And somehow this failure is now ascribed to Boris Johnson?
Pull the other one.....
The London Bridge attack took place on 3rd June and the barriers have been installed within a couple of weeks, so they could easily have been installed either early in the year or after the Westminster attack. And somehow this failure is now ascribed to Boris Johnson?
Pull the other one.....
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As soon as you defend one obvious source of soft targets they'll find another. Just remember the old IRA dictum: They just have to be lucky once; we have to be lucky all the time.
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[QUOTE=sitigeltfel;9811801]Corbyn addressed a crowd at Glastonbury yesterday and told them we needed to build bridges, not walls.
I will not comment on the quite stupid statement that JC worships terrorists. However, what is actually wrong with taking politics to the people especially when he was invited by the organiser. The fact that he has developed an affinity with younger people while TM clearly has not must annoy tory supporters. Get used to how politics is changing.
I will not comment on the quite stupid statement that JC worships terrorists. However, what is actually wrong with taking politics to the people especially when he was invited by the organiser. The fact that he has developed an affinity with younger people while TM clearly has not must annoy tory supporters. Get used to how politics is changing.
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Those of us who wished that the recent GE would rid us of Corbyn have lost out just as much. The Tory incompetence has made him completely secure as leader now and a poll today puts him ahead of May as preferred PM. All that crowing about how he would completely bugger the Labour Party looks a bit odd now.
