JUST read this self-serving crap from the aptly named Tosh McDonald, the Rick Wakeman lookalike who is both a train driver and president of Aslef, which so loves causing pain to passengers:
“I get recognised now and people do complain about the strikes. Of course I sympathise with people who have to put up with the atrocious service on Southern but its atrocious every day.
“We are going on strike so they don’t have to put up with atrocious service.”
He’s a bloody liar. The stoppages have nothing do with service.
Tossers like Tosh don’t give a damn that 300,000 people every day are having their family life and jobs wrecked.
His members have been offered increased job security (no redundancies, repeat no redundancies) and pay but his mob are in it for the power and want to bring down this Government by using commuters as battering rams.
On the other hand I do have sympathy with the striking British Airways crew as they are underpaid with the management putting shareholders way ahead of passengers.
I hope crew succeed in a new deal but, like you, I can fly with any number of airlines which is not true of rail travel.
That’s why Mrs May should take a serious look at curbing union power in state monopolies. Not easy but it must be looked at.
Plus isn’t it fascinating that McDonald lives in Doncaster where there is no sign of Aslef going on strike as it might make life difficult for him with his neighbours on his 20-minute walk to the station.
You don’t think he has he made Donny a haven of industrial peace at the expense of the South for personal reasons?
He wouldn’t dare make a 20-minute walk around Brighton. He would be lynched. Wouldn’t that be a sad loss?
PS. Question: Just how many days last year did McDonald actually drive a train? Perhaps somebody might tell me.
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