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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Northern Rail trains cancelled because of shortage of drivers on first big day of timetable changes

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... s-14683914" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Rail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary Mick Cash said: "The union is picking up reports from both Northern and GTR of a hopeless lack of planning, combined with a shortage of crew and fleet, which has reduced the Monday morning journey to a nightmare for many passengers.

"Frankly I wouldn't trust the private train operators to run a bath, let alone our vital rail routes. After Virgin/Stagecoach were kicked off the East Coast last week, it's time for the rest of these racketeers to be sent packing as well and for our railways to be run by the public sector as a public service."

Monday 21st May 2018 marks the first day of the new Govia Thameslink (GTR) timetable.

Buying a ticket means you have entered into a contract with the GTR. That contract is the same contract for all those who purchase a ticket. Your chosen train will deliver you to your chosen destination at the time agreed upon. The GTR however deems that it has the right to refuse access, remove passengers or alter their mode of transport provided these passengers are of reduced mobility.

PRMs according to the GTR, Disabled people according to the rest of humanity.
Not because the individual is obnoxious.
Not because the individual is dangerous.
But because the GTR holds Speed, Efficiency and Shareholder’s Profits supreme.

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Northern Rail trains cancelled because of shortage of drivers on first big day of timetable changes

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citizenJA wrote:

Monday 21st May 2018 marks the first day of the new Govia Thameslink (GTR) timetable.

Buying a ticket means you have entered into a contract with the GTR. That contract is the same contract for all those who purchase a ticket. Your chosen train will deliver you to your chosen destination at the time agreed upon. The GTR however deems that it has the right to refuse access, remove passengers or alter their mode of transport provided these passengers are of reduced mobility.

PRMs according to the GTR, Disabled people according to the rest of humanity.
Not because the individual is obnoxious.
Not because the individual is dangerous.
But because the GTR holds Speed, Efficiency and Shareholder’s Profits supreme.

https://dpac.uk.net/2018/05/disabled-pe ... timetable/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Businesses, profits and economies serve life. All people and other life are important.
A few have lost their way and have forgotten important things.

frog222 wrote:

citizenJA wrote:---
Businesses, profits and economies serve life. All people and other life are important.
A few have lost their way and have forgotten important things.

Surely that infringes some legislation ?

May claims new technology could cut household energy bills by £500 a year by 2030

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Government draws up plans to park lorries on M20 in event of post-Brexit customs delays at Dover

The Department for Transport has put out an interesting, Brexit-related ministerial statement today. It says that the government has drawn up plans to park lorries on one lane of the M20 in the event of there being “serious disruption to cross-Channel transport”.

The ministerial statement, which has been issued in the name of the transport minister Jesse Norman, does not specify what this “serious disruption” might be, and of course there have been serious hold-ups at Dover before, triggered by strike action on the French side, which led to the development of Operation Stack, an emergency procedure for parking lorries on the M20. But it does say the new system will be available “from early 2019” - which, conveniently, is when the UK will leave the EU and when a no deal Brexit (which the government wants to avoid, but cannot absolutely rule out) would cause customs chaos at the Channel ports. (Politics Live, Guardian)

Sky’s Faisal Islam has more on the contingency plans to park lorries on the M20.

Faisal Islam
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@faisalislam
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“This would be needed regardless of Brexit” says one Government source - pointing out that the hard shoulders need to be hardened, and “several tens of thousands” of cones need to be bought too...
2:40 PM - May 21, 2018 (Politics Live, Guardian)

PorFavor wrote:

Sky’s Faisal Islam has more on the contingency plans to park lorries on the M20.

Faisal Islam
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@faisalislam
Replying to @faisalislam

“This would be needed regardless of Brexit” says one Government source - pointing out that the hard shoulders need to be hardened, and “several tens of thousands” of cones need to be bought too...
2:40 PM - May 21, 2018 (Politics Live, Guardian)

Oh, silly me. I'd forgotten all about the national cone shortage.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

PorFavor wrote:

Sky’s Faisal Islam has more on the contingency plans to park lorries on the M20.

Faisal Islam
✔
@faisalislam
Replying to @faisalislam

“This would be needed regardless of Brexit” says one Government source - pointing out that the hard shoulders need to be hardened, and “several tens of thousands” of cones need to be bought too...
2:40 PM - May 21, 2018 (Politics Live, Guardian)

Oh, silly me. I'd forgotten all about the national cone shortage.

I blame Major's hotline, personally.

Windrush migrants still sleeping rough one month after minister's promise

People sleeping on benches or relatives’ sofas while waiting for Home Office meetings, the Guardian has found

Vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still living in destitution on the streets, despite government promises to sort out the crisis that led to thousands of people being wrongly targeted by a government crackdown on illegal immigrants.

The Guardian has heard of at least a dozen Windrush citizens who have been sleeping rough or staying in temporary accommodation while they wait for a decision on their legal right to remain in the UK. (Guardian)

Bonnylad wrote:http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2018/05 ... s-about-br

...Jacob Rees-Mogg's nonsense...
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A normal viewer who is not particularly invested in this debate would come out of it thinking that everything is fine, the consequences of our current course of action are minimal and all those experts in the House of Lords don't know what they're on about. In fact, it is a man flapping a non-existent piece of paper in the air as he demands we drive the economy off a cliff.

This is how they mislead the public. They smother them in nonsense - the type of nonsense so technical, jargon-filled and tedious that no-one in their right mind looks into it - and then tell them, with a soft smile and a posh accent, that everything will be OK.

Ken Livingstone Resigns From Labour Party, Claiming Anti Semitism Row Had Become 'A Distraction'

Willow904 wrote:https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/en ... ssion=true

Ken Livingstone Resigns From Labour Party, Claiming Anti Semitism Row Had Become 'A Distraction'

AnatolyKasparov wrote:The point for many of us is, by repeatedly bringing it up in the way he did he wasn't helping either Corbyn or the wider party.

PorFavor wrote:I'm missing HindleA's input here.

I have asked for an urgent meeting with the Transport Secretary this week to discuss the Northern Rail chaos. Things can’t go on like this.

I argue that the poison in our national life is identity politics. ‘This is who I am: you accept me on all my terms, or else you commit violence against me.’ Identity politics is insidious, irrational, and leads to decisions that threaten our liberty. @TimFarron @LibDems