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next strike dates 
ASLEF ( drivers from Avanti West Coast, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, Greater Anglia, Great Western Railway, Hull Trains, LNER, London Overground, Northern Trains, Southeastern, TransPennine Express, West Midlands Trains ) - 1st & 5th of October 
RMT (NetworkRail staff) - 1st of October 

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Just so we're clear about this, the RMT do not favour disrupting a minority of monarchist boot-lickers slithering their way to Edinburgh/London. 

But when it's back to providing a service for the plebs, near-total network disruption is once again acceptable for Reasons. 

Launch these utterly craven syndicalists into the sun. 

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3 minutes ago, virginton said:

Just so we're clear about this, the RMT do not favour disrupting a minority of monarchist boot-lickers slithering their way to Edinburgh/London. 

But when it's back to providing a service for the plebs, near-total network disruption is once again acceptable for Reasons. 

Launch these utterly craven syndicalists into the sun. 

They currently have a degree of public support and sympathy, and the likes of Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey are able to speak to the media primarily on the subject at hand. As fucking ludicrous as it may be, had they continued striking during the collective lunacy of grieving time, not only would they have been branded "disrespectful" and lost the majority of that support (which helps their bargaining power), but every media appearance would be nothing but queries and derision about haunted old Liz, derailing (pardon the pun) their actual objective. 

Whilst it would have certainly been funny to see a bunch of union jack clad paedos greeting all over tv about not getting to w**k in the bushes within 200 yards of her coffin, continuing the strikes wouldn't have benefitted the RMT cause in any way shape or form. 

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4 minutes ago, J_Stewart said:

They currently have a degree of public support and sympathy, and the likes of Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey are able to speak to the media primarily on the subject at hand. As fucking ludicrous as it may be, had they continued striking during the collective lunacy of grieving time, not only would they have been branded "disrespectful" and lost the majority of that support (which helps their bargaining power), but every media appearance would be nothing but queries and derision about haunted old Liz, derailing (pardon the pun) their actual objective. 

Whilst it would have certainly been funny to see a bunch of union jack clad paedos greeting all over tv about not getting to w**k in the bushes within 200 yards of her coffin, continuing the strikes wouldn't have benefitted the RMT cause in any way shape or form. 

There's no evidence that nefarious 'public support' (evidence needed) is helping their bargaining power at all. 

The reality is that the RMT doffed their caps to the institution of monarchy and joined the crowd of utterly craven bootlickers. Which is unlikely to do much for their public support now that they're back to, err, disrupting the public at every available opportunity.

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Train for Montrose pulls into Aberdeen station there and sits about for 10 mins before telling everyone on board "unfortunately this service has been cancelled due to a train fault"

On a morning when their website says there's the risk of short term cancellations due to overtime-related strike action? With a train that was clearly working 10 mins ago? Train fault my arse.  Dirty rotten lying b*****ds.

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Train for Montrose pulls into Aberdeen station there and sits about for 10 mins before telling everyone on board "unfortunately this service has been cancelled due to a train fault"
On a morning when their website says there's the risk of short term cancellations due to overtime-related strike action? With a train that was clearly working 10 mins ago? Train fault my arse.  Dirty rotten lying b*****ds.
They do it week in week out at Ayr. Train pulls in, passengers get on and 2 mins before it's scheduled to depart on comes a Scotrail employee shouting it's been cancelled due to a train fault or a line fault. Everyone shuffles over to another platform to wait half an hour for the next service and 10m into that half hour the now cleared "faulty" train leaves empty so the faulty train is clearly able to travel up the faulty line. They use both excuses interchangeably, both shown as a sham to every passenger now waiting in a shell of a station with no covered seating.
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But it could be a fault that stops it running in passenger service but it can still run empty to the depot for repairs.
It could but given it happens to the 16.40 out of Ayr about once every week it seems highly unlikely. They just need to admit they don't have crew and be done with it rather than some cock and bull nonsense.
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