If hardly anyone uses the ticket offices on the Tube, then how was it populist of Boris Johnson to promise not to close any of them?
Johnson has provoked this strike in order to push the issue of banning strikes by Transport for London employees, in order to force the introduction of ludicrously high thresholds for strike ballots, and in order to further his own ambition to become Leader of the Conservative Party.
Spot on, and that first line is a little flash of genius.
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ReplyDeleteThe fact that only 3% of people use ticket offices yet we should keep them all open, raises an important question.
ReplyDeleteAre public services made for the people who work in them or for the people who use them?
At the moment, our public services seem to be designed for the benefit of everyone (corporations, train companies, trades union bosses, employees ) except for the people whose taxes actually pay for them.
We are, as they said on Question Time, the only European country with no laws requiring a basic level of service be maintained in vital public services such as transport , in the event of a strike.
In other words, Thatcher didn't even go as far as the rest of civilised Europe.
That three per cent figure cannot be true.
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