On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 18:16:53 +0200
Robin9 wrote:
'Recliner[_3_ Wrote:
;156739']On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:37:58 +0100, Someone Somewhere
wrote:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36764417

I assume this means the rear platform doors will now always be closed
between stops, obviating one of the (small) benefits of this vehicle?-

It's interesting to compare this with the doo-doos on GTR. On the
buses, 300 employees in a safety role are being made redundant by a
Labour mayor to save money.


It's been a long time since any Labour politician was
concerned to preserve proper, decently paying jobs for
working people with minimal formal education.

They are concerned - so long as those people are foreign. Same with the other
parties. Endless talk about how wonderful immigrants are for the country
without addressing the question of why so many are filling jobs that up until
only 10 or 15 years ago would have been mostly filled by brits. Reason? The
drop in wages in real terms and zero hours contracts with the minimum wage
being a sticking plaster sop to stop then dropping through the floor. If
you've got a family and rent/mortgage to pay you can no longer afford to have
a job in construction (for example) while Pavel and his mates living 5 to
a house can.

A major reason people like me loathe and despise the
modern Labour Party.

And why Ukip stole so many labour votes. Neither wing of the labour party
gets it though. Corbyn and the left are still fighting the battles of the 1970s
and 80s and the moderates are still stuck in the Blairite late 90s. Neither
side says anything of interest or relevance to the proverbial man in the
street.

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Spud