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I have not massively followed the news for the last 5 days as have only been online on my phone, is anything happening with southern rail yet?

seriously I am not being party political as I have long since realised I fit in no political part, and this seems a things that brings people together from all sections of the political spectrum. Southern railway is a fcuking joke, do we have a new transport minister in the reshuffle? They need to sort this brick out and soon.
 
Danishfurniturelover said:
I have not massively followed the news for the last 5 days as have only been online on my phone, is anything happening with southern rail yet?

seriously I am not being party political as I have long since realised I fit in no political part, and this seems a things that brings people together from all sections of the political spectrum. Southern railway is a fcuking joke, do we have a new transport minister in the reshuffle? They need to sort this brick out and soon.
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Sadiq Khan has called for them to lose the franchise. We've had no government or opposition during the last week, so that is about it.
 
milo said:
Sadiq Khan has called for them to lose the franchise. We've had no government or opposition during the last week, so that is about it.
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I quite like the look of him so far, but then the tree hugging hippy anti runway tw&t he was up against. Yes they need to do something bloody quickly, your southern based arent you Milo do you use southern? I am up in London 5 or 6 times a month and catch a train from shoreham-by-sea to Brighton(10miles) about 10 times a month, have wasted so much time in the last 6 months waiting at train stations, GHod knows what the commuters have to put up with.

Another thing does anyone know if Mrs May is pro 3rd runway at Heathrow, I have vested interests as I have shares in the airline industry.
 
Danishfurniturelover said:
I quite like the look of him so far, but then the tree hugging hippy anti runway tw&t he was up against. Yes they need to do something bloody quickly, your southern based arent you Milo do you use southern? I am up in London 5 or 6 times a month and catch a train from shoreham-by-sea to Brighton(10miles) about 10 times a month, have wasted so much time in the last 6 months waiting at train stations, GHod knows what the commuters have to put up with.

Another thing does anyone know if Mrs May is pro 3rd runway at Heathrow, I have vested interests as I have shares in the airline industry.
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I use Southern a few times a month when they can be bothered to run trains.

I do not know May's views on Heathrow but I would expect an early announcement. It looks like there is going to be an emphasis on infrastructure investment and they are going to want to get the announcement out long before the next election (so maybe they could hold it off if they are going to call an early one).
 
milo said:
He's not very good socially, he interfered with other Minister's policy areas, he has had a couple of embarrassing U-turns on issues that MPs have had to back him on before they were dropped and because for a long time he assumed that he would follow Cameron into No. 10 and he used the patronage from this to increase his power, lastly, he ran the remain campaign.
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Thanks. When did he do the bolded bit?
 
glorygloryeze said:
@Sexagenarianlover i stumbled across this link from an article about how Claire Perry MP resigned as Rail Minister yesterday. It apparently explains the deeper problems with the current southern Rail issue: http://www.londonreconnections.com/2016/railway-roulette/
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I have read so much on the issues with southern, the was a good article on the local news where they spoke with a southern employee and he made the point that the conductors and the famous door shutting system and then also about how the drivers who will be taking over responsibility for the door closing safety and how the drivers will only be able to see a small screen cut into 12 squares and it is not live and it is also freeze frame has a habit of freezing and is at the mercy of the weather.

Frankly I take the side of the unions and the train staff in this instance, I am not proud to admit it but I have a couple of time been a little rude to the station staff, particularly at Hove station. They do not deserve it and have got the end of the passengers frustrations and it is a little unfair on them.

To be fair the railways have not been good for years and blaming the tories under investment in the 80's does not cut it anymore for me, i think the way the railways are operated must be wrong on some level.

Thanks for the link, I will give it a read now.

Also get someone in who thinks they can do the job.
 
glorygloryeze said:
But didn't Blair's Government introduce a minimum wage? Similar to this measure?
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That was nowhere near as big a jump in cost for business. At the time minimum wage was introduced most of our employees (in a low wage industry) were already being paid more than that - a small handfuls needed a bump of a few pence per hour.

This jump in annual labour cost is more than 10 times our entire company's annual profits and I've heard very similar comments from other similarly sized businesses.

The minimum wage wasn't a big jump from the norm, the living wage is.

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I don't think I've been very clear there. For clarity, the mimimum wage ensured the very low paid were getting what most others were - I have no objection to that other than in principle. The living wage massively increased what huge parts of the job market were getting.
 
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milo said:
He's not very good socially, he interfered with other Minister's policy areas, he has had a couple of embarrassing U-turns on issues that MPs have had to back him on before they were dropped and because for a long time he assumed that he would follow Cameron into No. 10 and he used the patronage from this to increase his power, lastly, he ran the remain campaign.
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Let's not forget talking down the economy before and after the referendum.

That's an absolute no for any Chancellor.
 
scaramanga said:
Let's not forget talking down the economy before and after the referendum.

That's an absolute no for any Chancellor.
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That was just the standard Osborne election script. I didn't see you complaining when he ran the same lines against Labour a year ago?
 
milo said:
That was just the standard Osborne election script. I didn't see you complaining when he ran the same lines against Labour a year ago?
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I don't remember him telling us our economy was weak, merely that spending money would weaken it.

Might be wrong though.
 
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