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 Badger11  Beckenham 01 Mar 22 9.30am |
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If TFL was a commercial company it would have gone bust by now. The fault lies with Khan, TFL was going broke before COVID which just made matters worse.
If I was PM I would nationalise it and take it away from Khan after all why bail it out when somebody else is mismanaging it.
Unfortunately it means fare rises and redundancies the unions will blame the government but they should look to Khan for the cause.
Edited by Badger11 (01 Mar 2022 9.31am)
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cryrst  The garden of England 01 Mar 22 10.20am |
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Originally posted by Badger11
If TFL was a commercial company it would have gone bust by now. The fault lies with Khan, TFL was going broke before COVID which just made matters worse.
If I was PM I would nationalise it and take it away from Khan after all why bail it out when somebody else is mismanaging it.
Unfortunately it means fare rises and redundancies the unions will blame the government but they should look to Khan for the cause.
Very true and maybe he will see he's been played for years and smell the coffee about who exactly his allies are, or were meant to be!
Edited by Badger11 (01 Mar 2022 9.31am)
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| Badger11 Beckenham 01 Mar 22 10.29am |
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It's odd that the RMT amongst others was very keen for the government to take control of the railways as they had been mismanaged. Don't hear anything from them about the mismanagements of TFL.
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HKOwen  Hong Kong 01 Mar 22 10.44am |
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Time to open the driverless train box
Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.
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| The Dolphin 01 Mar 22 1.38pm |
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I can't see anything on his twitter today about the strike - maybe he hopes that if he sticks his fingers in his ears and sings la-la- la that it will all go away!
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| The Dolphin 02 Mar 22 8.49am |
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This tells the story regarding tube strikes and the ridiculous, posturing clown of a man that is Mayor of a now fading city.
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| The Dolphin 03 Mar 22 8.19am |
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another Tube strike today and what appears to be many more to follow.
Sad Dick is useless and needs to get this sorted out.
start making his middle management lackies redundant - most of them are overpaid and underworked.
You just cannot screw with the pension pot so find another way - I don't live in London and have no wish for the Government to bail out this loser with any more of my tax.
One of the worst men in power for many years in my opinion.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 03 Mar 22 8.40am |
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Originally posted by The Dolphin
another Tube strike today and what appears to be many more to follow.
Sad Dick is useless and needs to get this sorted out.
start making his middle management lackies redundant - most of them are overpaid and underworked.
You just cannot screw with the pension pot so find another way - I don't live in London and have no wish for the Government to bail out this loser with any more of my tax.
One of the worst men in power for many years in my opinion.
Lucky you those of us who do look forward to a massive increase in our council tax from Mayor Khan which my local council has no control over.
It stinks, what is the point of my council doing it's best to keep costs down while Khan can just pass his bill onto us.
Edited by Badger11 (03 Mar 2022 8.41am)
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Teddy Eagle  03 Mar 22 8.45am |
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Originally posted by The Dolphin
This tells the story regarding tube strikes and the ridiculous, posturing clown of a man that is Mayor of a now fading city.
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Edited by The Dolphin (02 Mar 2022 8.49am)
Edited by The Dolphin (02 Mar 2022 8.50am)
Who’d have thought Bob Crow would be the less militant option?
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| The Dolphin 04 Mar 22 7.50am |
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Don't worry Badger - those of us out in the styx are about to see some very unpleasant rises as well.
Our local council has barely worked for two years and has had zillions of funding from central Government during that time but they are still blowing cash on absolute crap on a daily basis.
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| Teddy Eagle 04 Mar 22 8.08am |
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Relax London.
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| punksnotdead croydon 04 Mar 22 5.58pm |
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The Government has bailed out all of the rail companies through the pandemic a lot more than TfL and still are, but no one seems to mind that, but then it doesn't win them political points to slate how they are run does it.
The reason TfL was struggling before the pandemic was because of all the pointless and useless things that Johnson wasted millions on, unfortunately our right wing press seem to ignore that he was the worst mayor we've ever had.
£35,000,000 for a bridge that was never built , and all the fees given to his chums without and competition, still at least they weren't Russian I suppose.
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| cryrst The garden of England 04 Mar 22 6.30pm |
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Originally posted by punksnotdead
The Government has bailed out all of the rail companies through the pandemic a lot more than TfL and still are, but no one seems to mind that, but then it doesn't win them political points to slate how they are run does it.
The reason TfL was struggling before the pandemic was because of all the pointless and useless things that Johnson wasted millions on, unfortunately our right wing press seem to ignore that he was the worst mayor we've ever had.
£35,000,000 for a bridge that was never built , and all the fees given to his chums without and competition, still at least they weren't Russian I suppose.
Fair comment but now it's billions not millions.
Maybe the fares freeze, huge pay rises and hundreds of non important jobs including all the perks had a bit to do with it.
Yes covid hit it hard but at no time did sad dick offer cuts at the time, why? Only now he's at it with the begging bowl.
I see now why the Tory candidate wasn't backed during the mayoral election. Khant created the s*** show and now he's reaping what he sown. Guaranteed he was gutted he won 
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| punksnotdead croydon 04 Mar 22 8.45pm |
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The tory candidate wasn't backed because he was useless, as for the perks, Johnson brought all them in, everything is his legacy it's just that no one believes it because it suits the presses agenda to name Labour and not a party that lines it's pockets with Russian money
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| Stirlingsays 04 Mar 22 8.51pm |
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Originally posted by punksnotdead
The tory candidate wasn't backed because he was useless, as for the perks, Johnson brought all them in, everything is his legacy it's just that no one believes it because it suits the presses agenda to name Labour and not a party that lines it's pockets with Russian money
That's right Labour are much more moral. I mean they will ignore the rape of tens of thousands of working class girls for years and years to continue winning elections in ethnic areas.....but sure, at least they don't touch that Russian money....if that's even true.
'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)
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| steeleye20 Croydon 04 Mar 22 8.57pm |
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Originally posted by punksnotdead
The tory candidate wasn't backed because he was useless, as for the perks, Johnson brought all them in, everything is his legacy it's just that no one believes it because it suits the presses agenda to name Labour and not a party that lines it's pockets with Russian money
Touchez I think.....
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| cryrst The garden of England 04 Mar 22 9.05pm |
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No z
Oh unless it's another funny
Edited by cryrst (04 Mar 2022 9.05pm)
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| HKOwen Hong Kong 04 Mar 22 11.06pm |
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Originally posted by cryrst
No z
Oh unless it's another funny
Edited by cryrst (04 Mar 2022 9.05pm)
At least as promised there have been zero strike days on TFL under the Khanate.......hang on.
It's ACUTEly funny , don't use foreign words you can't spellez
Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 05 Mar 22 7.53am |
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Originally posted by punksnotdead
The Government has bailed out all of the rail companies through the pandemic a lot more than TfL and still are, but no one seems to mind that, but then it doesn't win them political points to slate how they are run does it.
The reason TfL was struggling before the pandemic was because of all the pointless and useless things that Johnson wasted millions on, unfortunately our right wing press seem to ignore that he was the worst mayor we've ever had.
£35,000,000 for a bridge that was never built , and all the fees given to his chums without and competition, still at least they weren't Russian I suppose.
You forgot to mention that as a condition of bailing out the train companies which had been mismanaged the government took control of them and appointed a new body to manage them.
They should do the same with TFL? Why are we funding a failed organisation, funny the unions were dead keen on the government taking control of the rail companies but we hear nothing from them about removing the current TFL management.
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| crystal-purley Purley 07 Mar 22 10.13pm |
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Originally posted by Badger11
You forgot to mention that as a condition of bailing out the train companies which had been mismanaged the government took control of them and appointed a new body to manage them.
They should do the same with TFL? Why are we funding a failed organisation, funny the unions were dead keen on the government taking control of the rail companies but we hear nothing from them about removing the current TFL management.
How many failing train companies (thanks Thatch) have really transferred back to the government.
How many councils are going under because of government failings.
How large is the government debt currently (although the pre-pandemic debts are really embarrassing).
Enjoying getting up later and not having someone who knows better than me (apart from the missus of course).
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