whos to blame for the winter of strikes

What is the difference between a train and a HGV or car?. Nobody would buy those without A/C as it is recognised that comfortable working environments lead to less fatigue and are safer. 

So we all get poorer for the good of the economy? Who benefits from that apart from the wealthy elites at the expense of the people?

Spoken like a true Tory.

Ah but you are a Blairite!

Same thing essentially. As your words above amply demonstrate.

Do you envisage yourself getting poorer or is the triple lock sacred? And if the latter why do you only envisage working men and women - the ones paying most of the taxes and doing most of the jobs that need doing, including paying for pensioners - being the ones getting poorer?

The easy answer is to make the trains driverless thus saving the train operators a fortune. They could then pass it on as a dividend to their over charged customer’s. But there would be more chance of me replacing the pope who has gone tits up than that ever happening.

If you have ever been on a train you will know that it does not always travel at speed. And the windows in the drivers' compartment are not large. And in any case the sound of rushing wind would drown out essential communication warning of hazards ahead.

I wish you would think before posting such risible nonsense.

Still waiting for evidence of that in your case.

The problem is that the government have been suggesting pay rises of between 2 and 4 percent, and inflation has been at 10%.

Therefore any pay rise at the level suggested by the government automaticaly means public sector workers are worse off, so who can blamethem for been angry.

But more to the point, its not just about money, for example postal workers object to a reduction in terms and conditions, such as working Sundays, going self employed, working longer hours for the same pay, so who in their right minds would think that this is acceptable to any working man or woman.

Part of the problem is years of Tory de-regulation, which has resulted in a drive to the bottom, where Royal Mail staff now have to compete with the many private companies, who's agenda for competetiveness is insecure terms and conditions and low pay.

We need to go back in time, give back Royal Mail their monopoly, a state owned, state run letter and parcel service, the emphasis been on "service" not profit. Thereby securing a future for an industry, for jobs, and for the consumer / customer.

So what is the mentality of any arseholes who supports a strike by those who are too lazy to do the job they are paid well for as an 500 EXTRA people a week are NOW dying due to their antics? And one lunatic who is one of the record highest posters on this board STATES {These people are holding the NHS together, saving lives and in no small way helping hold the country together} Bloody hell, imagine the damage if they tried to pull the NHS and country apart. And the rest of us are all expected to think those lunatics who make these statements and support these actions have a more valid opinion than the rest of us. LOL and then when that backfires has to start a bloody thread of how his unearned respect is challened. LOL and still thinks he has an IQ higher than a bloody garden snail.