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Tube Drivers get £50k Deal.

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  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    heathcote123 wrote: »
    can we please have a free ferrari factory as well? I'm not keen on travelling with the riff-raff.

    You could pay the cost of the difference between standard and first class and sit next to me! ;)
    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
  • vax2002
    vax2002 Posts: 7,187 Forumite
    Hmm, pay a tube driver, someone with a few hundred peoples lives in is hands 50k doing an incredulously import job of keeping all the "academics" transported and everyone moans.
    pay a council diversity coordination project resource's manager 120K and we dont bat an eyelid
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  • heathcote123
    heathcote123 Posts: 1,133 Forumite
    pimento wrote: »
    Who is Polly Toynbee?

    The unemployed could travel for free if it were all free, couldn't they?

    My employer could leave London if they didn't want to pay the travel costs (although if we're being specific, I doubt my employer would due to the nature of their business).

    I travel on the train every morning with people who (like me) don't earn £50k. We all still have to pay £3900 for our tickets though.

    You said it was just for the workers - but the workers should be showing solidarity for their unemployed comrades I reckon.

    So what you really want is higher taxation on companies, so that the governent can provide free transport to everyone - have I got it now? If so, Should this just be London companies, or any company?
  • heathcote123
    heathcote123 Posts: 1,133 Forumite
    vax2002 wrote: »
    Hmm, pay a tube driver, someone with a few hundred peoples lives in is hands 50k doing an incredulously import job of keeping all the "academics" transported and everyone moans.
    pay a council diversity coordination project resource's manager 120K and we dont bat an eyelid


    erm, I think we do.


    The simple solution is we burn all tube drivers & diversity coordinators at the stake & start over.
  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    London companies.

    I mean, look at this:

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/politics/article-23994309-take-a-job-even-if-its-90-and-8201mins-away-tories-announce.do

    The govt. are saying the unemployed have to take a job even if it's 90 mins away. My commute is 90 min each way. If the job is a minimum wage job, how will the person be able to afford to get there and back?
    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
  • heathcote123
    heathcote123 Posts: 1,133 Forumite
    edited 5 October 2011 at 11:42AM
    pimento wrote: »
    London companies.

    I mean, look at this:

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/politics/article-23994309-take-a-job-even-if-its-90-and-8201mins-away-tories-announce.do

    The govt. are saying the unemployed have to take a job even if it's 90 mins away. My commute is 90 min each way. If the job is a minimum wage job, how will the person be able to afford to get there and back?

    We had a million poles travel a thousand miles & found jobs. Not sure why I should pay for the million brits that decided to sit on their !!!!!!.

    And I'd guess there really aren't many people that are 90 minutes away from a minimum wage job...
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    heathcote123 wrote: »
    Well I'd vote for you, I like free stuff, espcially when it comes from a magical money pit that noone has to put into.

    can we please have a free ferrari factory as well? I'm not keen on travelling with the riff-raff.

    Are you from Greece?
  • heathcote123
    heathcote123 Posts: 1,133 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Are you from Greece?

    How did you guess? :)
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    heathcote123 wrote: »
    How did you guess? :)

    Your accent.
  • heathcote123
    heathcote123 Posts: 1,133 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Your accent.

    ah, I thought it was the bushy tache and the kebab stains down my tshirt.

    So, anyway, how much to greek tube drivers get paid? Thats if they have a tube, or maybe they use ponys?
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