The Unions Play Up Again And Further Distance Themselves From Reality

People outside of London may not be aware of this, but the capital’s bus drivers are having a right laugh with TfL.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7521923.stm

Now, I don’t mind bus drivers apart from those on a certain route near me who are complete nutcases. Accelerating into a bus stop isn’t the idea guys, okay?

But this lot are, frankly, taking the piss. In short they want £30,000 a year to do 38 hours a week. That’s less hours for more money!

It’s not the hours and the pay per se, it’s the amount of money. Maybe nobody has told them that they are bus drivers and not accountants.

Because rewarding a bus driver with 30 grand of the Queen’s finest paper is a stark message to the nation and the students who will soon join the workforce: don’t bother.

Let’s be harsh, bus drivers are generally the people who were in the lowest sets at school and haven’t got very many qualifications. Nothing wrong with that, it’s just life. Some people are barristers, some are athletes, some are bus drivers. Others are politicians, boom boom! Oh dear…

But to basically either be a bit unintelligent or a lazy bastard and then getting a job driving a big red thing about, then years later being given £30,000 to do it is a kick in the teeth for all of us who worked hard and studied.

What’s the point? Tube drivers earn a truly obscene wage. Green to go, Red to stop, say a load of crap over the speakers about doors at Mile End, sit on your arse all day reading the sport with your thermos, sue the boss for sacking you after being caught sitting in a room full of thousands of empty and half full beer cans and being pissed out of your mind. And here is a cheque for far more than nearly everyone who gets on receives.

Why? Because Ken Livingstone was weak and confused. Hard right Stalinist fucker on one hand, loveable cheeky chappy of the masses on the other. Now the Unions led by that utter cunt Bob Crow (may very well do an article soon here, because I hate the man nearly as much as Lee Jasper) have got their oar in, they can twist the knife, to mix the metaphor, and leave TfL up shit creek. Without an oar, or paddle, depending on your point of view. Anyway, it has a knife tied to the end of it now so it’s ruined.

The Unions, particularly transport, are now so far to the left in the 21st century, reality is a distant memory. Tube, train and bus drivers on more money than people with degrees who run offices and are immune from any action.

Really it is all a ploy. They want to be told ‘no’ so that Crow and his Awkward Squad can have a strike. They like a good strike, makes them feel like real men telling the average worker what to do and getting them to lose a days pay after 51% fo the 20% who bothered to vote agreed with themselves.

Problem is, Boris Johnson is now saying he would like to, but he doesn’t have the power when really he should be telling them to fuck off and give him back his paddle sans knife.