Union boss Mick Lynch predicts a general strike in the UK 

No lies either

He's a nob.

Joe are rightly very supportive of the unions.

At least the rich worked for it, unlike his brainwashed, overpaid, lazy militant members. This man is just narcissistic and just loves all this adulation he is getting. I despise him.

Exactly a lot of things should have happened 40yrs ago .

He IS the rich .....you or I don't come anywhere close if we combined our earnings .Honestly it's a joke,

Not even close. The rich stay rich because they can buy anyone off ultimately. Don't believe me - I give you - John Prescott - the world's greatest hypocritical bag of shit.

Yeah, hands up Jon, I couldn't agree more about that. First class slime bag along with his gaffa. Sh!thouses.

@@karlnadin1554 Eh?

The government has already succeeded at getting rid of guards on many rail networks in the UK. Interesting thing, the trains still have facilities and equipment for guards, they were designed with a guard in mind, yet it is Driver Only Operated. This puts additional burden on the driver who has no clue what's happening onboard his train.

Precisely what does the guard add to safety?

@@Trevor_Austin Seriously? Do you think its a perfect world.

@@Trevor_Austin 1. Staff visibility inside of the train leading to a decrease in anti social behaviour, also making passengers feel safer. 2. Able to respond to violent or medical emergencies quickly, unlike the driver, who upon receiving an alarm, has to drive to the next station, notify control and signaller, then respond to the incident, all of it costing precious minutes. 3. Able to deter ticketless travel and by extension the presence of belligerent individuals who dodge fares and use trains without guards freely. They are responsible for an ungodly amount of violence and vandalism on trains. We're talking drug addicts, mental people, elements of society who don't pay for tickets. A guard will eject them from the train. 4. Gives customer info, advice, announcements on route and disruption. A driver focusing on driving will have limited info or capability to make regular announcements onboard. 5. Under extreme situations where train needs evacuating, the guard will facilitate this process alongside the driver, making the process safer and easier to manage. Train evacuations happen a lot more often than you may think, and the driver alone has limited ability to do it alone quickly while keeping all passengers onboard safe.

Their trains don't stop when it snows

What does he say about the Bank of England ?

@@RedScotland My missus would like that 😅

If we can save up and stock up, no need to strike.

He gets paid £83k a year for his 'commitment'.

He is Marxist (his 83k salary aside) and attempting to expand the strike in a leftist political direction.

He talks well but doesn’t have to suffer any burden

@@loofcifer lmao, tories have already beaten him to it.

@@truckerfromreno compared to £700k+ his equivalents earn in network rail it’s a bargain. And it’s also democratically approved by his members who have no issues with it.

You are welcome to him, preferably in an independent Scotland so we never hear from him again.

@@jjefferyworboys8138 interesting. Are you proud to voted for your own death.? As a nation.? Because these billionaires will do it. With smiles on they’re faces. For the People neighbour, by the people. NOT big companies, get it.? Boom 💥

"representing his members." How much more conservative can you get!😊

Lynch is an effing narcissistic twat who doesn’t give a flying f*** about anything except his bloated ego.

@@loofcifer mate he is a union leader. thats his job.

@@laoch5658 He's a dinosaur! Do we really want to go back to how it was in the late 70s?

@@loofcifer we are back in the 70's!!! But this time a "conservative" reckless government is wholely responsible for the utter mess. The reaction of the unions in the 70's was in response to a incompetent Labour government, The reactions of the unions in the 2020's is in direct response to an utterly incompetent conservative government. Time this excuse for a government is replaced immediately and make Britain great again.

Unless of course you believe in socialism, in which case you are ALWAYS working for the government. It's an unbelievable shame how chucked the UK population is. No understanding of what their actual best interests are. You all simultaneously blame the gov for all our problem, and beg them to sort it out. Just a country full of Oliver twists.

You'd like to think so.

That is so true but sadly thick aspects of the working class are their own predator and are the other enemy within facilitating power to entities that have zero interest in them.

@@stephenroche5107 True, that's why we need to educate them.

@@damien1166😂😂😂😂

and talking bollocks?

He is the lurgy

@@colinwishbone4437 scab

@@mgibuk lemming!!

Middle man If you've nowt intelligent enough to say the STFU thankyou we can tell your not a grafter ?

The reason there are no answers at PMQs is nothing to do with preparedness or stacks of notes. It's because direct and truthful answers would show the inadequacy of government policy.

And they know the questions in advance, Mick is a legend, on the ball..

Hi russ correct try getting a answer out of a MP but Mick liynch does every time

Why doesn't he stand for parliament he sounds fantastic 🤠

@@joebrooks1573 because he is too honest..

To form the People's Democratic Republic of Britain? I really don't think so.

@@dorsetbigcats6292 more like a social democracy as seen in Denmark, Finland or Sweden. You really have swallowed the Tory propaganda!

@@benhunt4089 Oh you do make me laugh. How old are you?

@@dorsetbigcats6292 Clearly not as old as you, wise one. Still scared of the reds under the bed?

@@benhunt4089 Not really, the simple concept of from each/for each sounds great in principal, which is why it appeals so much to the young. But the cold, hard truth is that socialism in all its forms has resoundly failed wherever it has been tried. It is the enemy of freedom loving people.

Lol he is laughing his head off at the union members falling for his communist crap and losing pay packets while he is certain of getting close to £150 000 a year.Mugs like them deserve it .

Julius where 8s your one comment ? That Google has removed it ? Yeah it's not that he is just clever but Mick does his homework and knows his onions he isn't in this for the money although it does help but its the safety of the public and foreign workers lives as well as the indigenous whos lives are under threat but the government do not care but one day they'll be made to pay and when they least expect ! Including GOOGLE who keep on cutting out tongues that the Almighty created you just do not fight with the Almighty for he misses nothing ? Woe betide!

Julius my comment has not been removed by the masters of the Universe ((( GOOGLE ))) But there's time yet because they'll wait till I'm not looking the sneaks

@@marksmith7425 What you call 'communist crap' is otherwise known as 'fairness'.

@@kujiholoki5744 No it isnt fairness at all in anyway .Its just commie crap and the public will all turn against your vile mob trust me.Its the public. who need fair ness .The quicker the government bring in new laws for strikes the better.I just wish we had a new maggie who would destroy your mob as she did to to the miners and miners leader .

Thanks John! 👍

Wonder who sold off the family gold then.

@@EXSKIN Gordon Brown did back 1999.

@@EXSKIN labour obviously

You are not an actual train user then……muppet.

My Husband was in the biggest Trade Union in this Country The Transport and General He led a strike when they hadn't had a strike in 100 years IT was in the chemical industry and he found dead bodies of the workers because of company bosses failure to improve working conditions ((( NOTHING CAN EVER BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT A FIGHT ))) And yes your right when you say People are struggling to eat , but my husband was threatened with death by some workers because they needed their creature comforts so sod everyone else then ? But he held out and the workers benefited by working less hours for more money 💰 the complainers went quiet but 8t takes time and plenty of patience even when you feel it's so inconvenient ? Or you get walked over by the big boys ! God loves a tryer , a fighter and he has no time for cowards which is common in the majority of humanity today ?

Yes, the people have been so badly let down.

This is the price of sanctions against Russia; the price of "furlough" free money, and the price of destroying businesses with lockdown hysteria; and the bond-driven housing bubble.

@@linguistengineer588 the country would have been locked down for much longer and more furlough under Labour. True story.

@@linguistengineer588 No it's the fruit of geed and capitalism.

This man man is not for the workers this is political this country struggling as with the rest of Europe What he is doing happened after the war in the 50's unions were always going on strike which cost them lost jobs We lost the car industry ship building. Progress will always create unemployment but can also create emplyment

You mean the labour party that keeps losing, perhaps its about time they changed the socialist tune... nobody is listening.

He is part of the swamp

@@MyName-cw4yr 👍

Well I would gladly be in his swamp than swamp we are in now Torie dregs of heinous evil and humongous greed.

@@MyName-cw4yr you think its left wing union leaders calling the shots in far right tory brexitland? You must be a dribbling moron then! Time to wake up and use your brain mate, the swamp is full of the crooks who are attacking men like him constantly, like the multiple MPs caught red handed in corrupt, illegal fraudulent government contracts worth 10s of billions of pounds... quite literally stolen from our country and pockets and yet there will always be right wing brain dead idiots who leap to defend those bleeding our country try and bringing it to its knees and then attack ordinary British workers and those working to give them a decent life. Unbelievable, couldn't get any more spineless and thick

@@MyName-cw4yrYes, The unions are part of the oligarchy.

The Royal Mail is in fact part of the Private sector and is responsible to its shareholders. The Post Office on the other hand is Government run. I was working during the winter of discontent under a Labour Government which helped get Thatcher into the PM's seat. Also prior to that the 3 day week. These strikes also affect other working people who will not get any direct benefit from the action, that is why the public waver in their support I suppose.

@@CJD666 and meanwhile the gov compensates the employer for lost revenue talk about a racket !

eh?

@@middleman9183 Brilliant

@@GG-ml3vr eh?.

100,000 volts preferably.

Mick represents the middle classes not the working classes aka "the people". If this was 1970 then yes, you would be correct, but it's 2022.

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@@RedScotland your talking to the wrong fella mate during the 80s I raised £100s for the miners strike I was a union rep at BA and BMI and then swissport have been on strike several times and would do it in a heart beat if the situation arose again ,always defend the workers right to withdraw their labour 💪

It was "people like Mick" who damn near destroyed this country in the 1970s.

@@dudeatx think your talking gibberish mate the reps in the 70s were in for themselves nothing like Mick today he is trying to save the railway workers jobs but you carry on reading the Daily Mail

@@diamondgeezer3933 If you think Lynch isn't in it for himself then it's you that's thinking gibberish. Railway jobs are going anyway, he'll be sitting pretty though. Never read the Daily Mail in my life by the way.

@@dudeatx typical I'm alright Jack attitude

Understand that if you do strike, your may hasten redundancies, because that's the most likely way that pay rises will come from. End the sanctions and costs will come down.

Okay for you child, it is your parents who will suffer.

@@RedScotland Well said, though normal people call it a democracy. Keep up Jock.

i only work part time.i reduced all my bills and spending back in 2016. there is zero incentive to work and pay taxes.

@@888ssss You represent all that is wrong with this country.

o yeah so working class that he has cost me over £3000 in lost earnings so far ! thanks mate i must remember not to ever buy a ticket until i have been repaid, personally if i ever see this mug im going to punch him in the face! and just so you know im a bricklayer as working class as it gets, not some mug in a uniform doing an unskilled worthless job, the only skilled workers on the railway are drivers and signalmen

I'm playing my tiny violin for you. What an entitled prick you are. Have some solidarity, these battles are won with sacrifice. Anyway, you're future is looking bleak with the coming property market crash. Are you gonna blame that unions as well you prick? The rich fuck us about all the time, manipulating every market, exploiting every resource yet you have the nerve to moan about unions. Idiot.

@@KamZero fucking right we were fucked over in the 70s by the national insurance blacklist ,you mugs wouldnt know a hard days work if it smacked you in head, and im not bothered about any recession as i have 2 houses and a record collection worth over £200,000 as my mate owned the biggest tips in sussex, so i took all the rubbish that turds like you throw away and its not worth alot, but obviously im stupid ,unlike clever cunts like you are so self fucking important ,i tell you what i would gas pricks like ,and dont be a keyboard warrior ,my address is 57 southfield polegate east sussex, come here and i will take you to work and see if you can carry 3 blocks on your shoulder up and down a ladder so we can build houses for useless morons like you to live in, stop talking shit the unions are just red cunts, tiny cogs in massive machine waste of space not fit to lick my shit off the pavement, fucking hitler was right about you

@@KamZero maybe i should work on the railway again like my who has been off work for 14 weeks on full pay, please can i pay some more tax to help him out! or maybe i should go to the doctors and say i have a mental illness because im not sure if a man or woman or a fucking goat, and i have issues and need personal indepence payments and a fat ginger vegan carer because im scared to leave my house! fucking load of useless cunts, and i will tell you almost to a man ,bricklayers scaffolders we hate all of you ,we think you are fucking sheep following the rules without being able to think for yourselves, brainwashed from the day you were born, go to school forced to learn some useless prayer go to church without having the brains to question anything you are told! o look the nazis are evil they killed 6 million, the russians are heroes!!!! o wait they killed 11 million mostly there own and raped over 1 million german women and children some to death,but hey thats ok because they won?

Beware false idols, Linda.

The right to hold the country hostage, that's shit..... and only really effects the working class.

@@MyName-cw4yr If you don't like it you can leave

@@kanga1943 I have the means, it's just a shame that these selfish idiots are able to cause so much disruption to working class people and be called "good" for it....

@@MyName-cw4yr working class people don't care for you shameless Tories. This is class warfare

@@MyName-cw4yr are you a great defender of the working class then?

The Press is just a mouthpiece for the oligarchs and government now, there are few that swim against the tide of lies and half-truths.

Under FPTP, sadly not. Although it is quite a wondrous thought

@@RedScotland Corbyn did more damage to the youth than Hitler ever did.

He is brilliant, and honest, the Tories, and many other mps are not!

Though the president of Ukraine has to read the lines given to him from his western puppet masters

@@davidcoles2240 being dishonest is kinda part of politics....

He doesn't care about the poor ,he just hates the rich ,his policy will make things worse for the people he supposedly represents ,,,he represents himself ,,

How long have you known him ?

@@trulyexorcise2918 I just look at the results and he will be to only one to gain ,,,there just facts

@@willie8976 I'm sorry I don't get what you mean. He is just a man doing a job for a nice salary and benefits. What results he gets benefits him too, if he gets lousy results he won't stay head of the union . Can you explain what you mean.

@@trulyexorcise2918 yea its quite simple ,,,public sector workers are paid from tax payers money ,,,the gov is over spending ,,if they spend more inflation will just go up ,,its the moat somple economics ,,u see wealth is created through a service provided or a product produced ,,money only represents that,, he wants them to spend more money it looks good on the face of it and maybe for the first few weeks but the work fhey do will be less valuable as money becomes less valuable ,,,,his solution is the very thing thats creating the problom ,,,,read orwells Road to Wigan pier ,,,,he doesn't care about the poor he just hates the rich ,,,,,and another thing ,,,when a company is not for profit there is no accountability,,,so its far less efficient,,,,

You have low standards

Truthful man with no fear. Solidarity

Scargill 2.0

a bit draughty though?

Well said Jurgen .

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Well said.

They are both obsessed nutters

What will the Country do if something happens to the EU you can't rely on others like Germany propping you up forever. Where will the world be when Germany starts getting into trouble blaming Britain won't get you anywhere forever. It's the rich Always taxing the poor then wondering why the poor can't manage that's the problem. .Where is this tax the poor pay supposed to come from.

Agree, but it seems to be publicly funded employees striking, and those who aren't funded by the government don't seem to strike as much.

@@MrJeffHead it's only public funded workers who effect the public [the working class only, rich people are never bothered]. No point in those working for Nike and other expensive companies owned by the very rich. Even "poor" people are happy to pay ridiculous prices and support them. When it comes to food though, people are wanting everything to stay cheap while minimum wage goes up. Personally I would support food producers before a fashion company, designer gear doesn't define me

We all pay the price for the incompetence of this Tory government, sick of the lot of them , Labour well they can’t even be an opposition,Time for a complete change , time we took our country back

@Maureen Newman Hi Maureen, they have been incompetent for years and all these new ideas they want to rush trough are all about controlling the minions and allowing the rich to get richer 😡 they were happy to clap for the nurses during the pandemic but now they want to cr@p on them 😡 if the ordinary people don't take control we will be done for 💪 you are right we need our country back and we need it NOW 👍😀

@@MrJeffHead if you work in private sector and dont turn up u dont get paid and u will be sacked, theres no unions in private sector that im aware of

Switzerland is rich because of all the financial economy they have which is very secret and not included in their direct democracy

.........and expensive ticket prices means - no customers

@@middleman9183 then the roads will be full of traffic jams

@@middleman9183 NO don't insult my intelligence if we have no railways in this country there will be more pileups on the roads more deaths more in NHS the list goes on look on tube the day Britain stopped you just might understand plus it will cost the country more that we all pay for

Who is WE?

@@alleadmin3294 The people whose pay and working conditions are under further attack by a greedy and complacent management and political class who would hire their workforce as on a self-employed basis but tax them as is a permanent employee. The people having to get by on the money that's left to them after a tax-and-spend fiscally incontinent faux-Conservative government has had its hand in their pockets and then further beggared them through the inflation that they've heaped on top of the legacy left by a catastrophic thirteen years of Blair and Brown at the helm. Hope this helps.

@@RedScotland Couldn't agree more. Never mind 'lessons have been learned'; lessons must be taught. Anyone who's been in government over the last thirty years has a case to answer.

@@alleadmin3294 we the common people! ya bellend

@@Azhark94 Looking at your name you are pretty common. And again looking at your name you and yours have zero history and knowledge of the struggle of the white working class in this country. Your lot will still have been romancing goats when the real battles were fought here. Your opinion is meaningless. Increasingly so. Bellend.

we?

@@middleman9183I think he's referring to the people in the country with working brains. There are plenty of spoilt idiots who think I'm fine so I expect everyone else to work themselves to death for the privileged ones benifit, but that attitude is hitting the bedrock of reality now. There's going to be a lot more of this over the next year or 2

​@@middleman9183 are you a bot or have you just got nothing better to do?

No we are not

Victorians had poor people working the dirty jobs like that. Many would be disabled, old, skillless or just desperate. Many would get sick, probably even die. All they would earn is enough to get through the day. The reason it can't be maintained today, is because working in those conditions is unacceptable now. Anyone that does this work in the modern day has had a good level of training, provided with modern equipment and tech also has a good wage package to go with it. The cost of maintenance has sky rocketed since Victorian times

No, what we are seeing are global supply chain issues caused by covid - unless your're a left wing marxist wearing beer goggles!

@@middleman9183 I do hope you are joking? Please enlighten us all with your reasoning, what have global supply chain issues got to do with having a railway system unfit for purpose?

Fascism actually

Easy when you don't have to make decisions 🤠