I won’t back down to Rail and Tube unions despite strikes, vows Grant Shapps – ‘They’ve been able to just carry on with unbelievably outdated practices,’ Mr Shapps said
I won’t back down to Rail and Tube unions despite strikes, vows Grant Shapps – ‘They’ve been able to just carry on with unbelievably outdated practices,’ Mr Shapps said
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What even are these “outdated practices” ? I don’t see anywhere what they are…
So make it legal for them to strike by going to work and taking no fares like Japan, so there minimal disruption and they also get to make their point and compel train companies to increase their pay
He’s not wrong imo. These series of strikes will definitely hasten a big shift in rail working practices.
>They’ve been able to just carry on with unbelievably outdated practices
Says the man that works in a Parliamentary system that hasn’t had a major reform since 1832.
Shapps has got a couple of weeks left in the job. Its not going to be that hard not to back down
A member of the Conservative party will be fully au fait with the concept of outdated I suppose.
He won’t need to back down. He may not be Transport Secretary in two weeks’ time.
I thought Shapps said it had nothing to do with government? What is it he’d be backing down from? /s
>Outdated practices
Has Mr Shapps ever been to the House of Commons? Does he know the House of Lords is stuffed with hereditary peers, failed and retired politicans and party donrors and that the UK Head of State is chosen for life by the rigorous and ‘up to date process of being born? 🙂
Do you think he has sat across the cabinet table from Rees mogg and said outdated practices are bad ?
>I won’t back down to Rail and Tube unions despite strikes, vows Grant Shapps
Is this the same Grant Shapps who a couple of weeks ago said he had no powers to intervene in the strike because it was a dispute between the companies and its workers?
Yes voting to go on strike over pay to try & keep up with gross cost of living increases is an oudated practice says an MP for the *Conservative Party*
Says one who works in the Palace of Westminster.
If you want better efficiency though changing existing work practices, pay for it. And nothing to do with cost of living increases.
Well then clear off!
Get criminal Shapps into prison
Shapps is just posing harsh in order to apply for the Home Secretary job to Dizzy Lizzy.
Like keeping an eye on passengers for example
Ah yes, those outdated practices like expecting to be paid a reasonable wage and not simple be used as a means to generate more wealth for the already wealthy.
Eat shit Shapps! Or better still take a drink of Hartlepools sea water.
Coming from a member of parliament he party that hasn’t changed its ways in pretty much it’s entire existence and is in the midst of dragging us back to the 19th century?