If people were angry over the train strikes “ruining” Christmas they will be raging over this. I’m glad they are doing this causing as much damage as possible is the only way the Tories will listen
Does anyone know which other airports other than Gatwick & Heathrow? My partner is flying into Liverpool on Xmas eve and this news doesn’t sound too great.
I’m fully supportive of the strikes though. Fuck everything about the Tories. But sadly the Tories will inevitably spin the narrative that it’s the strikes that are ruining Christmas, not the cause and effect.
Would this effect you if you’re flying out ? Since you don’t go through the border controls when leaving.
Question asked by someone wholly ignorant, what is the human element required here? Don’t the e-gates work predominantly without the need of a large number of staff? Or am I thinking of completely the wrong thing here? Again, I am very ignorant here and support the strikes of anyone chronically underpaid.
Not great. I’m travelling out of Heathrow T2 on the 24th. Not sure exactly what this means for me if anyone can elaborate?
meanwhile how many billions on covid contracts? how many billions of fraud written off? how much claimed in expenses by MP’s! Everyone is starting to realise its rigged! Not like people want much, work hard and earn enough to live with dignity, we shouldn’t even have food banks ffs!
Think it’s a good time to start a union. Everyone seems to be striking.
I wonder if anyone has thought that the solution to preventing all these strikes might be to pay people a wage that reflects their responsibilities and skills? Just a thought
Ah fuck, my gf is flying back on the 23rd – any news on what time the strikes will start?
Government: everyone is striking, am I out of touch? No it’s the people that are wrong!
Can someone please tell me what this means for me (UK) and my gf (Dutch) arriving in Gatwick on Xmas Eve? Can we even still go?
Literally just dropped £700 on flights from bham fucking yesterday
I will be flying into Heathrow on Christmas Eve. This strike is likely to cause me long delays and a lot of inconvenience.
I fully support these workers and their demands!
Does anybody know if this is likely to cause flight cancellations or will it just be a case of long queues?
Good, I hope they keep striking. It’s sickening watching companies get away with massive profits whilst workers salaries are effectively being cut with inflation.
So that’s;
No doctors
No nurses
No paramedics
No postal workers
No trains
No border force
This is the “brave new post brexit Britain”???
At this point, it’s probably easier to make a list of professions that aren’t striking this year lol.
Fuckin hell, even the homeless will be on strike soon!
When is it time to hang this government for what they are doing to this country
Everyone strike. Bring the country to its knees. Nothing functions until sucknuts is gone.
Replace them with eGates. They’re no longer required.
I do support strikes.
But this is an absolute disaster for me.
Fuck me.
So what happens? Do flights get cancelled or do they let tens of thousands of people wait at minimal staffing levels?
Can we get a list of everyone who’s striking or has struck (striked?) this year?
There’s been so many I’m losing track and I think it would be really informative to see a full list of strike action.
Fully support these strikes btw.
I think I might go on strike, as I currently don’t have Xmas off and would be nice. I also didn’t get a payrise this year so think I’m entitled to it
Tories crash economy.
Everyone suffers.
Tories cuts spending on vital services.
Workers that provide these vital services want more money they haven’t had in a decade to keep head above water.
Tories say that’s what Putin wants..
The audacity to think we are all idiots.
General election now or general strike to come!
Right.
You know in the private sector we’re not getting 10%+ payrises either.
This is how inflation becomes hyper inflation – tough pill to swallow, but everyone needs to sit tight and weight it out or risk a cycle thay further destroys the economy.
Ironically, their job will probably be done better in their absence.
Ferrying illegal immigrants across the border is the exact opposite of why the Border Force is supposed to exist, and yet this is what they seem to spend all their time doing.
If soldiers spent all of their time inviting enemy infantry into their bases, I wouldn’t be upset if they went on strike either, for the same reason.
Good. By now, the majority of the country should have realised that it’s the Tory government that is at fault. No one else but the government.
Technically you can run an airport without them, but…
*”At less busy airports there will be longer queues but no great disruption to operations.*
*Initially on the first day, 23 December, only arriving passengers will be affected: checks could take significantly longer. Passports are not checked when leaving the UK, and so initially there should be no impediment to outbound journeys.*
*But Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester are busy airport with constrained space and little slack in the system at the best of times. It is possible that long queues could build up, leading to passengers being held on planes rather than disembarking. Those aircraft generally turn around to depart in as little as an hour. If the incoming passengers are still on board, the planes are not going anywhere. Were this to happen, crowds would build up in the departures area and the airport would soon run out of gates for arriving flights – possibly triggering cancellations and diversions.”*
Ha ha ha ha ha Britain ha ha ha ha a laughing stock ha ha ha ha so Brexit ensured these would be “essential“ workers and when the xenophobic government “needs“ them the most they call a strike ha ha ha ha you couldn’t make it up ha ha ha ha ha what a 💩hole country ha ha ha ha ha
So now you can’t even leave the country over Christmas to escape the tories lol
Travelling back to the UK alone with a baby so cant use the e gates. Absolutely terrified
Well that’s nearly the whole of the UK using food banks so far. If the border force stopped illegals coming into this country there would be an extra 2.2 billion to spend this year. That should be taken off their budget.
Good for them. Solidarity. Hope there’s absolute chaos. Hope the Tory scum will listen, (they won’t and will think that more whipping and lies will help the worst government in living memory)
They telling is now because no one will notice the difference when they do
The best one I’ve seen so far is the Tories looking at more anti- strike powers for the public sector. Sunak basically said, at PMQs yesterday, ‘strikes are not fair on working people’.
Completely fucking ignoring the fact that the public sector workers are in fact ‘working people’ who have been utterly shafted year after year.
So it’s official-Sunak and the tories don’t regard public sector jobs as ‘work’, or, perhaps even,the people that do them, not people.
Utter fucking snakes. Fuck them all.
100% support these strikes. Don’t back down.
Great. My wife’s coming back from the other side of the world into Gatwick very early morning on the 24th. Who voted those gobshites in again?
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If people were angry over the train strikes “ruining” Christmas they will be raging over this. I’m glad they are doing this causing as much damage as possible is the only way the Tories will listen
Does anyone know which other airports other than Gatwick & Heathrow? My partner is flying into Liverpool on Xmas eve and this news doesn’t sound too great.
I’m fully supportive of the strikes though. Fuck everything about the Tories. But sadly the Tories will inevitably spin the narrative that it’s the strikes that are ruining Christmas, not the cause and effect.
Would this effect you if you’re flying out ? Since you don’t go through the border controls when leaving.
Question asked by someone wholly ignorant, what is the human element required here? Don’t the e-gates work predominantly without the need of a large number of staff? Or am I thinking of completely the wrong thing here? Again, I am very ignorant here and support the strikes of anyone chronically underpaid.
Not great. I’m travelling out of Heathrow T2 on the 24th. Not sure exactly what this means for me if anyone can elaborate?
meanwhile how many billions on covid contracts? how many billions of fraud written off? how much claimed in expenses by MP’s! Everyone is starting to realise its rigged! Not like people want much, work hard and earn enough to live with dignity, we shouldn’t even have food banks ffs!
Think it’s a good time to start a union. Everyone seems to be striking.
I wonder if anyone has thought that the solution to preventing all these strikes might be to pay people a wage that reflects their responsibilities and skills? Just a thought
Ah fuck, my gf is flying back on the 23rd – any news on what time the strikes will start?
Government: everyone is striking, am I out of touch? No it’s the people that are wrong!
Can someone please tell me what this means for me (UK) and my gf (Dutch) arriving in Gatwick on Xmas Eve? Can we even still go?
Literally just dropped £700 on flights from bham fucking yesterday
I will be flying into Heathrow on Christmas Eve. This strike is likely to cause me long delays and a lot of inconvenience.
I fully support these workers and their demands!
Does anybody know if this is likely to cause flight cancellations or will it just be a case of long queues?
Good, I hope they keep striking. It’s sickening watching companies get away with massive profits whilst workers salaries are effectively being cut with inflation.
So that’s;
No doctors
No nurses
No paramedics
No postal workers
No trains
No border force
This is the “brave new post brexit Britain”???
At this point, it’s probably easier to make a list of professions that aren’t striking this year lol.
Fuckin hell, even the homeless will be on strike soon!
When is it time to hang this government for what they are doing to this country
Everyone strike. Bring the country to its knees. Nothing functions until sucknuts is gone.
Replace them with eGates. They’re no longer required.
I do support strikes.
But this is an absolute disaster for me.
Fuck me.
So what happens? Do flights get cancelled or do they let tens of thousands of people wait at minimal staffing levels?
Can we get a list of everyone who’s striking or has struck (striked?) this year?
There’s been so many I’m losing track and I think it would be really informative to see a full list of strike action.
Fully support these strikes btw.
I think I might go on strike, as I currently don’t have Xmas off and would be nice. I also didn’t get a payrise this year so think I’m entitled to it
Tories crash economy.
Everyone suffers.
Tories cuts spending on vital services.
Workers that provide these vital services want more money they haven’t had in a decade to keep head above water.
Tories say that’s what Putin wants..
The audacity to think we are all idiots.
General election now or general strike to come!
Right.
You know in the private sector we’re not getting 10%+ payrises either.
This is how inflation becomes hyper inflation – tough pill to swallow, but everyone needs to sit tight and weight it out or risk a cycle thay further destroys the economy.
Ironically, their job will probably be done better in their absence.
Ferrying illegal immigrants across the border is the exact opposite of why the Border Force is supposed to exist, and yet this is what they seem to spend all their time doing.
If soldiers spent all of their time inviting enemy infantry into their bases, I wouldn’t be upset if they went on strike either, for the same reason.
Good. By now, the majority of the country should have realised that it’s the Tory government that is at fault. No one else but the government.
Technically you can run an airport without them, but…
For anyone with a flight on strike days..
[https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/border-force-strike-pcs-border-force-heathrow-gatwick-b2240707.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/border-force-strike-pcs-border-force-heathrow-gatwick-b2240707.html)
*”At less busy airports there will be longer queues but no great disruption to operations.*
*Initially on the first day, 23 December, only arriving passengers will be affected: checks could take significantly longer. Passports are not checked when leaving the UK, and so initially there should be no impediment to outbound journeys.*
*But Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester are busy airport with constrained space and little slack in the system at the best of times. It is possible that long queues could build up, leading to passengers being held on planes rather than disembarking. Those aircraft generally turn around to depart in as little as an hour. If the incoming passengers are still on board, the planes are not going anywhere. Were this to happen, crowds would build up in the departures area and the airport would soon run out of gates for arriving flights – possibly triggering cancellations and diversions.”*
Ha ha ha ha ha Britain ha ha ha ha a laughing stock ha ha ha ha so Brexit ensured these would be “essential“ workers and when the xenophobic government “needs“ them the most they call a strike ha ha ha ha you couldn’t make it up ha ha ha ha ha what a 💩hole country ha ha ha ha ha
So now you can’t even leave the country over Christmas to escape the tories lol
Travelling back to the UK alone with a baby so cant use the e gates. Absolutely terrified
Well that’s nearly the whole of the UK using food banks so far. If the border force stopped illegals coming into this country there would be an extra 2.2 billion to spend this year. That should be taken off their budget.
Good for them. Solidarity. Hope there’s absolute chaos. Hope the Tory scum will listen, (they won’t and will think that more whipping and lies will help the worst government in living memory)
They telling is now because no one will notice the difference when they do
The best one I’ve seen so far is the Tories looking at more anti- strike powers for the public sector. Sunak basically said, at PMQs yesterday, ‘strikes are not fair on working people’.
Completely fucking ignoring the fact that the public sector workers are in fact ‘working people’ who have been utterly shafted year after year.
So it’s official-Sunak and the tories don’t regard public sector jobs as ‘work’, or, perhaps even,the people that do them, not people.
Utter fucking snakes. Fuck them all.
100% support these strikes. Don’t back down.
Great. My wife’s coming back from the other side of the world into Gatwick very early morning on the 24th. Who voted those gobshites in again?