Mick Lynch BODIES Grant Shapps

[@Alex-jc7eo]

Modernization is a euphemism for worse working conditions - that’s all it means in this context

[@snafufubar]

It means fewer people doing more work for less money. And cutting safety is a really bad idea on a railway.

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

@@snafufubar Except for the people who make money from it with no accountability should things go wrong, for them it's a great idea... and those are in charge.

[@mattbryan9178]

@@Arbaaltheundefeated You realise that the people who would make the most money from efficiency savings are the people of this country not the companies?

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

@@mattbryan9178 Wow... I spotted one in the wild! Someone who actually *believes* corporations cut costs to lower consumer prices rather than increase profits! I shall have to tell my future grandchildren about this moment.

[@FullmetalSP1]

I mean, step back and really ask yourself what modernisation means in the context of working hours for rail workers. It’s not as though the invention of the smart phone and electric cars suddenly added hours to the day. Why wasn’t Shapps immediately asked what modernisation meant in that context?!

[@anthonysmith8800]

Said if before and worth repeating. The calibre of Mick is depressingly missing from the media in the UK. He is more articulate and level-headed than anyone in this incompetent government

[@duringthemeanwhilst]

it's also sadly missing from politics

[@AverageJane222]

Well said - I would add, missing from the incompetent 'opposition' also.

[@progpuss]

Exactly 👍

[@hariowen3840]

@@AverageJane222 Opposition??? more like the alternative tory party - just waiting in the wings to continue with the exact same policies, possibly somewhat more right wing, when the other tory party gets voted out. (Generic politics!)

[@derekarnold3665]

Sorry but Mick Lynch is a militant leftist. The public have had enough of the rail workers striking and inconveniencing the public.

[@eileenclark7744]

He is so plain speaking. Incredibly impressive. No doublespeak. It takes the wind out of their sails. We need someone like him to speak up for us all

[@insopanasiancuisine8098]

💯. Something the mainstream Media has failed miserably because they are as much entrenched in those rotten principals to put working class people down and feel worthless.

[@finlayblair9751]

For a second I thought you meant grant shapps 😂

[@joginns778]

To be honest Mick lynch should be in number ten at least people no where they are with him ,,no lies like Johnson was telling everyone,

[@michaelpickard8297]

THATCHER DID IT TO MINER STRIKE SSHE PUT THE PUBLIC ON THREE DAYS WEEK THERE WAS MILLIONS OF TONS STOCK PILED ALL OVER BRITAIN THATCHER AND HER GOVERNMENT PUT THE PUBLIC ON THREE DAYS WEEK TO GET THE PUBLIC TO SIDE WITH THATCHER AND THE GOVERNMENT .SHE BROUGHT M C GREGORY OVER FROM AMERICA TO SHUT THE COAL INDUSTRY DOWN . .NOW THE GOVERNMENT ARE BUYING COAL FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AT TOP PRICE PER TON THE UK UTILITIES ARE OWN BYE OTHER COUNTRIES LIKE FRANCE CHINA WE ARE PAY ING THEM TOP MONEY FOR THESE

[@Smittumi]

We can't make it only about him, he's just one man. It needs to be about the whole movement.

[@PuncherOfSharks]

Mck Lynch is the voice I need right now

[@Jayandmickeys]

They just cant deal with a guy like mick. Because he's HONEST.

[@djmarti7773]

Honest and can't tale a bribe unlike the tory who accepts Russian dirty money....

[@blacklisted4885]

honestly CORRUPT

[@mikeystorm275]

@@blacklisted4885 yeah that's the CONS for you

[@colintait7139]

He is deluded let's all pay so they can still have that 3rd holiday abroad instead of 2.....poverty my arse......

[@mikeystorm275]

@@colintait7139 yeah I'm with you on that let the rich keep all there money they've earned it.

[@madameblatvatsky]

Full solidarity with striking workers.

[@batts2503]

How can you tell Grant Shapps is lying? Yep, his mouth is moving.

[@chrissmith7655]

nope when he is awake hahaha

[@tjenadonn6158]

Right wingers only stop lying through their teeth when they're lying in their coffins.

[@WalderFrey]

@@alexanderstefanov6474 ...or Corinne Stockheath...

[@Kit-yv7ob]

He's a Tory.

[@peterjacques977]

What wage is he on?

[@sma5929]

Wow, I'm an American and I could only dream of having robust unions over here, or even a leader with half the balls as Mick! Sending well wishes from the other side of the Atlantic

[@silversurfer7341]

Sma We need many like Mick, on both sides of the pond. It's not nice living in a land of hire and fire, wherever you may be

[@rogernichols1124]

Wish us luck, my friend, we have such a dried up talent pool. Hope Trump gets his overdue come-uppance. Bring it on!

[@ianharding3514]

I’d love to see a debate between Mick Lynch and Grant Shapps. But that would terrify Shapps...

[@aredub1847]

ide like to see a fistfight

[@audreymcgready4329]

Shapps wouldn't have the vocabulary to take on an honest straight talking man like Mick or Eddie Dempsy.

[@stephanguitar9778]

@@alexanderstefanov6474 Depends what he is selling on that day.

[@markfleming5747]

He would Shapp himself

[@sheiladunn2465]

Yes...he would have no problem with his constipation then!!

[@killbotone6210]

"The people behind me...." That's the brilliant thing about this guy. He quickly deals with the personal insults and moves straight back to the issue- Oridinary People being forced into poverty by a radically greedy company and government.

[@flowergrannyjanet]

I love Mick Lynch. He makes his point very clearly and always remains calm no matter how they try to goad him into being angry

[@chrisnettleship4331]

Mick Lynch for PM?

[@darrenburns123]

It's the calmness when they are pushing his buttons, that's a skill we all need in life...

[@chrisnettleship4331]

@@darrenburns123 They're not intelligent enough to flummox him

[@darrenburns123]

@@chrisnettleship4331 there is that as well, it's brilliant

[@rogernichols1124]

The best of Mick's many good qualities is his refusal to rise to the bait. The media are always looking to provoke and antagonise and with him they're on to a loser. Joy!

[@tbone7822]

Mick Lynch, the Leader the people of this country need!

[@marmite2500]

I have been in work in the UK for 40 years and am amazed and shocked at how workers rights have been diminished and how people have just accepted it . This channel is just so refreshing

[@rontocknell5400]

Let's be clear: Strike action does not CAUSE disruption. The strikers are the people who CREATE convenience and AVOID disruption. The disruption is an inevitable consequence of workers withdrawing the labour that would otherwise prevent disruption... and the reason workers are withdrawing their labour (unsatisfactory pay and conditions) is what is causing disruption. Look, if I were a gardener and someone offered me a fiver to come and clear all the weeds in their garden and shift all the rubbish that has accumulated, I would certainly turn their offer down. That would not make me the cause of the mess in their garden.

[@MadCatLady28]

Seriously underrated comment. 👍

[@alanpatterson2384]

Strikers avoid disruption? That does not make any sense. The intention of a strike is to cause disrupt.

[@rontocknell5400]

@@alanpatterson2384 No. The intention of a strike is to ALLOW the disruption that results when workers withdraw their labour. Every day that workers put into their jobs, they are keeping the infrastructure going and providing us with the advantages we benefit from it. Failing to provide workers with reasonable pay and conditions is what CAUSES disruption. Striking simply emphasises the importance of the work they do. They just want their pay & conditions to reflect the value of their work. If it doesn't, they don't work. Simple as that. There is a huge difference between CAUSING a problem and choosing not to solve it. The problem exists because rail companies are refusing to negotiate. The solution is simple: negotiate an acceptable deal.

[@Bdoc76]

100% correct.

[@johnmcdonald828]

I love your way of putting it. And I’m stealing the gardener part. 🤣

[@DelBoy573]

When Keir Starmer is firing people for joining the picket line then of course Mick is painted as far left! Labour is firmly Center right.

[@tjenadonn6158]

And people still think voting Labour will fix anything. Labour are where the Tories would be had the ERG never happened. A non-millionaire voting for Labour in its current configuration is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

[@charanjeetjawanda3827]

The Tories made what Tarry did illegal. Fly picketing, which is what Sam Tarry was doing, is illegal.

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@charanjeetjawanda3827 Civil disobedience is and has been a standard part of the union handbook for centuries. If Labour Inc actually supported labourers and the means it takes to improve things for them they'd support their members who do those sorts of things. Instead. Kier "Savile's Saviour" Starmer's only problem with it being illegal is that he doesn't get to personally crack the skulls of the revolting peasants who engage in it. You just know he, Rishi, and Liz Truss are best mates when the cameras stop rolling. Imagine having less of a problem with child molestation than with protesting for livable wages. It's not normal. But for Kier Starmer it is. Kier Starmer. Not Even Once.

[@davidbent347]

Labour is firmly Tory...

[@jameshutton3960]

Your obviously a tory plant in disguise as the stammer slurs used above are tory propaganda.

[@peterflanagan5901]

Greetings from Ireland Mick ! keep up the good work ✅☘️

[@juliebill6991]

You don't need to be a great orator when you have truth and common sense on your side. That's why Lynch is winning on this

[@stephanguitar9778]

Pity Starmer wasnt such wishy washy politician.

[@Johnnyfive55]

Spot on. I have said this for weeks. Mick doesn't have to think before he speaks. Because he tells the truth, that is why he is endearing to the working class. Telling the truth and not dodging questions is a breath of fresh air

[@leighclark5257]

Bravo Mick, Dalia, and Michael. Straightforward talk on unions and strikes and reactionary conservative governments.

[@williamling3056]

Shapps says that he doesn't want to get involved in negotiations yet all he does is undermine any chances of a settlement. He comes out with this crap that employers have a mandate to negotiate a settlement, but their contract says he has to sign off whatever is agreed!

[@johntravena119]

Cheered by Mick Lynch’s skill & valor from across the pond. Solidarity!👊

[@GhostOnTheHalfShell]

In other words wealth wants a peasant class utterly at their mercy. This isn’t any hyperbole.

[@turkeypudding]

Mick is a gifted communicator, who also speaks the truth. Some of these conservatives only care about profit and or savings. There is such a disconnect with the humanity part of the equation. It is sad that workers have to resort to such drastic measures like striking . I bet you that shanpps guy has a great pension waiting for him, and expendable surplus of cash, and probably mortgaged house, paid off in time for his early retirement. Thatcher was an asshole, these neo conservatives can't even come up with their own ideas to destroy the working class, so they steal from the best of the worst. Thatcher has hatched a hive of horrible cash hoarders.

[@TheLRider]

Ha ha Boris Johnson ex elected PM based on merit? You truly are conned mate. Please do some research and I think you will find that this strike was provoked on purpose so that folks like you get hoodwinked yet again. There may be merits to the case for modernisation but shit management always fail to take their team's with them. With the Tories they will always look to cause friction so that the public at large swallow the propoganda. To the Tories its they're only way they can keep Gammons on board and them in power.

[@turkeypudding]

@Hugh Shepherd I appreciate your POV, have you read the contracts that are on the table? Thatcher is not for me, I disagree with her ideology. It is always profit over people. You support the transfer of wealth from poor to rich. I am the opposite, some wealth is needs to be directed towards the working class folk. Unions are a tool to fight back against the inherit exploitative nature of thatcher ideology. When you are at war with greed and exploitation , the strike is the applicable weapon. The rich always win anyways so .., we see it with the rich getting richer, Forbes 100. I wish Bernie Sanders was president. anyways i digress. :)

[@benmundin71]

@Hugh Shepherd you couldn't be more wrong. ML explained what was going on. Maybe you should have listened. RMT have been fighting for 2 years to get a decent deal for their members. All they've been offered is voluntary redundancies and a real terms pay cut. No one in their right mind would accept that including you. The "progress" you and Shapps speak of is the stripping back of the railways as much as possible to increase shareholder profits. Its the opposite of progress for the staff and the people who want to use the service. Nobody wants the state to "do all", they just want decent working conditions. Did you ever think that some people actually enjoy their jobs and don't want to "restructure their lives"? Nobody should be forced out of their job just because the company they work for is too busy trying to squeeze every last penny at the expense of everyone else. "This country runs on merit" No, this country, as well as every other country, runs on the labour of the working class. Without it we would grind to a halt. Some of the most important jobs are the unskilled ones. Your attitude towards fellow human beings leaves a lot to be desired

[@kevinkevin-ug9po]

@Hugh Shepherd How wrong you are

[@benmundin71]

@Hugh Shepherd nobody wants handouts. Just a fair livable wage. It hasn't been shown to work in any economy because we live in a capitalist world where profits come before people. It's never even been attempted. Shareholdings and profits don't maintain the jobs. The people who work for and use the services do. Profits are the unpaid labour of the working class and shareholders are nothing more than thieves

[@AG-el6vt]

"Trial by combat" Lmfao that had me chuckling.

[@rogernichols1124]

Mick Lynch has the leadership qualities that are totally lacking in the government: clear in his vision, reasonable in his demands and fair-minded. This is why Shaps and his cronies are afraid of a face-to-face encounter with him. They would lose spectacularly in this conflict of their own making - and they know it.

[@lanehewitt7685]

Grant Shapps (if that is indeed his name) is utterly clueless on just about anything.

[@bigpants6121]

he even got confused pyramid selling!

[@Cookabart]

Of course he’s a Tory scumbag. They only know to lie lie lie.

[@theparkerilla7292]

If there are the amount of disputes that Schapps claims then surely that merits a critical look at what it is the train operators are doing so badly that they have disaffected their workforce ... this is victim blaming isn't it ?

[@bushudo1]

Also if there's been an usually high amount of disputes perhaps it's due to Grant Shapps 🤔 He pointed out the correlation of him being transport minister and there being a high number of disputes 🤷‍♂️

[@stephanguitar9778]

Its what tories do.

[@Leornianæfre]

It’s like watching Muhammad Ali v any random Joe Bloggs who thought they could outthink and outclass Ali in the ring or intellectually outside it. Mick Lynch has embarrassed every journalist and politician that’s stood in his way. Every idiotic statement by the media, Tory’s or Starmers right wing of the Labour Party has been dismissed as illogical and idiotic with frightening ease.

[@tjenadonn6158]

When you have basic truth and morality on your side sending the bullshitteers packing is remarkably easy.

[@Cristobels-Green-Boots]

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!” Go Mick - civil unrest? A new broom sweeps clean! 🙏🏻🌹🙏🏽

[@Thetache]

It is very easy for Mr Lynch as he is using facts and truth, these can never be beaten in a debate with liars using fiction and made up straw men when conducted out in the open.

[@jgdooley2003]

@@Thetache It reminds me of the time I was in a very minor way involved in canvassing in an Irish presidential election. Basically I could not make a pitch for the candidate put forward by my party. Very few people could. When you espouse the truth and do not engage in an sophistry or cover-up it becomes possible to confound the nay-sayers and shills bought by the far right elites. Now LIzzy "never trust a truss" Truss wants to ban Trade Unions. I wonder why???

[@liesmella9029]

The RMT should run for government. A no nonsense party for the workin class...they'd get my vote

[@lamueldagon7618]

And mine!

[@Gez-C]

Not mine

[@alanpatterson2384]

Yes, they are a political party already, so they might as well run and make it clear what they are.

[@ronlegend2526]

Novara, you give us old people hope that the youth will carry the flag onward

[@charlievernon4064]

Remove the likes of arrogant narcissistic Shapp’s.

[@peterwhybrow1541]

Mick Lynch is brilliant. I love the way he disarms an argument with a chuckle.

[@callumthomson1592]

Who would of thought that a modern day Robbin Hood and Little John had accents like Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey

[@RSkool]

What a disgrace for calling Mick a militant ... all he's doing is standing up for the ordinary person and speaking the truth. If only government and mainstream media had a similar mindset.

[@tonycarter8884]

Power to the people.

[@dubstup23]

Mordernise? gtfoh. Mick summed it up perfectly when he told Lord whatever his face “you wouldn’t know the business end of the shovel”

[@76mangoman]

Mick is a legend! Just regarding strike action, I wonder if there's an alternative. In Sydney just over 20 years ago, rail workers took industrial action regarding attacks on their pensions and workers compensation rights (from my memory at the time). Instead of cancelling services, everyone went to work as normal but the stations left all the ticket gates open. So the travelling public had some days of free travel and lapped it up! Surprise, surprise the rail operator lost 100% revenue for those periods while the public was fully supportive of the rail workers. I ended up having a great old time, even travelling out of the Sydney area for a bit of a jolly by the beach - all for free! In the end, the state government had to step into line and all was resolved. Would this be possible here, or could this cause a legal headache?

[@davecollins9075]

Every worker phone in sick.

[@trishbelfield2864]

I could be wrong but I'm sure it's a strategy that's been suggested but it was said it's illegal in the UK and a sackable offence to allow someone to ride the train for free.

[@jgdooley2003]

@@davecollins9075 This is how the Irish police got some concessions on their working conditions and the right to form a union. The police phoned in sick. It was known as "blue flu". The irish Army was also being treated like dirt by the government. They organised through their spouses and relatives for better conditions since the army staff themselves did not have the right to form a union or go on strike.

[@paulinecarr7695]

As a bus driver where the depots have been privatised the companies get paid by the state by km. So regardless of strike or go slow or shutting of the PRIVATISED TICKET MACHINES the corporation gets paid. Another tactic needed

[@darrenburns123]

GRANT : Since I've been in power there has been 160 different disputes.... Think that says more about you... Little weasel

[@thegovernor7107]

Keep the momentum

[@ayoak4474]

What word is good to describe your work? Excellent, Flawless, Exquisite, Amazing, Superb etc. Sky news, BBC news ought to hang their heads in shame. On a very low budget, you guys are excellent. I wonder what you'll produce on a good budget. Keep up the amazing work of good journalism.

[@agaricrider]

Dalia Gebrial, what a star, she give me faith in the youth of our country.

[@MrBaritone38]

Great Channel which resonates with my views too!

[@tourmelion9221]

I've met people who've said the same about me when I stand up for something right, I hate that corporate interests warped personality, where they insult and put pressure on someone and then speak nonsense on how you're insane when that's the furthest from the truth, it's gas lighting, there's something seriously rotten with people like that

[@jgdooley2003]

Known as gaslighting and it is a trait that corporate shills have in common with relationship abusers and dysfunctional partners in life.

[@davidallen283]

Great video, Thanks guys

[@fuaadlatif9420]

Thanks

[@tomrado1687]

Dalia's POV was good, very succinct thanks guys! Keep it up.

[@williamwilson8582]

Shapps would happily do a P&O job on the railway workers .Get in cheap labour and sack existing g staff . What's he done about P&O bugger all . The Tories ran down and sold off BR much of it to the French Germans and tax avoiding spivs like Virgin .Much of the profit is leaving the country to subsidise EU citizens fares . You couldn't make it up . They did it with every other publicly owned utility ,result held to ransom by Europe ,ironic isn't it .

[@michaelwalls4346]

Whenever Tories employ the language of Progress, say through such tropes as modernisation, flexibility, efficiency etc etc, what they really mean is cuts, closures, firings, downsizing, removal of job protections, wage increases, dissolution of union representation and so on. It's basically neoliberalism and Flynch et al are calling it out, which is a rare thing to see in British public debate.

[@pipash3953]

Really well put by Dalia Gebrial. Definitely one to watch, very insightful and eloquent points.

[@andrewcarpenter9253]

Schapp is clueless and a compulsive liar.

[@bridgetcooney234]

In other words he's a tory !

[@hughspalding6932]

Speaking as a boss i suposse im afraid patience on everything is wearing thin . Im thinking things will change in winter, we see the obscene profits in shell and centrica. Whats gonna happening when you see your kids freezing in zero temperatures you will regret backing away from what surely will happen . It is grotesque everyone is being brainwashed by tory hustings they should be all together helping us fix this, we have not got till september because that will be after another whopping energy rise .I wish they had not blocked my chimney with metal flues or id be burning what i could get myhands on. To hell with this tory government and theyre energy company buddies .Our discomfort is hardly being mentioned and so you all know what comes next whoever wins. Kick them all out .

[@nuudelz3711]

it's happening across the pond in the US and Canada as well. the next 20-30 years are going to dark times...

[@laurisafine7932]

If it's oh-so-C21st and modernized to put in a 7-day week - scrapping a work-home balance - why hasn't Shappsikins suggested a bill to make politicians do the very same thing?

[@maryfletcher4]

Schapps’essentially railway unions have been taking passengers for a ride’

[@skoodledoo]

"There hasn't been a single day without strike action, or mandate for strike action, that's just not normal in any industry". Correct Schapps, you are absolutely correct. It isn't normal and striking is the last resort when all other talks have failed. Maybe look at the reasons why it isn't normal and why it's happening. It's because the government has failed the Railway and is failing workers.

[@rob-c.]

Shapps starts the sentence saying ‘since I started as transport secretary’… perhaps that’s the problem Grant! 🤦‍♂️

[@EyeIn_The_Sky]

You can literally see in the opening seconds of his bungling attempt to force a lie out of his mouth he himself doesn't believe. "What easy stereotype can I push to those still willing and dumb enough to swallow this tripe".

[@Headhunter_212]

He can barely reproduce the focus-group talking points that the Tories are repeating without end.

[@rodneycooperLMSCoach]

Grant Shapps wants this strike to continue to get more and more of the public opinion against the TU.

[@oscars4608]

“Modernise” = match the current trend of decreasing working conditions and pay to make the rich owners more and more money.

[@jimmytaylor6514]

General strike is needed urgently. We have to get behind the workers

[@michaelmoran9399]

Just imagine the Labour party with Mick Lynch leading it. They would walk the next election.

[@Wr5379-g2y]

They wont with starmer

[@midkemian1]

The Tories aren't talking about modernisation - they are trying to Americanise our labour force, taking us back to the 18th/19th centuries

[@jcoop49]

Also Shapps is a shareholder of RMT., and has Thatcherite ideology, to get rid of working class people in this country, are we living in 1800s,1980's or 2022. Dalia is dead right don't let them win this time round.

[@tomb407]

SOLIDARITY. I stand with you.

[@militaryforcestv1]

I think the UK Labour party has found its future leader, please make him run for labour.

[@bigc5630]

Mick Lynch will dance rings around all these private school toffs!!!!

[@shadowwolfkano]

Trial by combat? Let's go!

[@tjenadonn6158]

I know where my money is, and it's not on the guy who's never worked a day in his life. One nick from Mick and Grant's as good as gone.

[@danielbtwd]

Yes public transport is a very lucrative arena. Just like rubbish collection and energy and water. Privatising these elements invariably result in an increase of costs and decrease in service. The principle behind Taxation is to justified by the idea of supplementing these services. What I don't understand is that Taxation increases while public services are reduced. However when I see the participants involved it becomes clear that they haven't a clue. Too many trust fund kids being put into positions that are clearly beyond them.

[@Stuboy]

Mick Lynch for labour leader along with Eddie Dempsey

[@simonclarke7309]

Modernising parliament and all its regalia and Lords etc. 90% of extreme fascists are tory

[@tjenadonn6158]

Modernize the monarchy: in other words get rid of it, divest their assets, and make those freeloading inbreds get real jobs and actually work for once in their lives.

[@williamling3056]

There have been 160 disputes, because Shapps is incompetent at his job!

[@GaryParris]

incompetent hierarchies always blame the workers for their own incompetence and praise themselves for an efficient workforce.

[@goattm2]

So according to the tories its the unions distrupting our lives and not the tories rubbish governance.

[@WhoOneIs]

If the Tories can side with the railway bosses - subsiding them with public money to support them through the strike - then why can’t the ‘Labour’ Party support the RMT? Starmer sacked Sam Tarry, the Shadow Transport Secretary, for supporting the RMT strike on a picket line. The ‘Labour’ Party says that Tarry was sacked for ‘unauthorised media appearances’.

[@tjenadonn6158]

Because Labour is now just the Tories for people who hate the color blue. They're not more on the side of labour than the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democratic republic run by and for the people.

[@GaryParris]

keir starmer needs to be sacked as labour leader and all his cronies with him!

[@war2bird]

The Truth always sounds authentic. Mick Lynch and the RMT are defending ordinary working people !

[@D4902-q1r]

Unreal Shapps can sit there and say the unions are taking passengers for a ride with the rail companies absolutely fleecing the passengers with extortionate tickets prices and making £100m's in profit year in year out for decades.

[@bluecardholder]

err, they are all being run by the DoT now and will become Great British Railways soon run by the Government.

[@clivethompson9375]

RAILWAY MAINT USE SPECIAL TRAINS, NO ROAD ACCESS, CUTS IN; PAY, NO PENSIONS, NO H&S, UN HANED STATIONS, NO WEEKENDS, SHAPPS MUST GO......

[@Anonymous-je6mu]

modernization is a Trojan Horse

[@charliemcdonald6882]

If it came down to a fist fight '' my money is on Mick 🤜🤥

[@markherzog9484]

Shapps wants the RMT railwaymen to ‘modernise’, then he goes to Westminster where men in tights and wigs carry swords and medieval implements and follow processes and procedures that are 200+ years old. I would suggest politicians and Parliament could benefit from his own advice…..

[@seaniek9175]

If supermarkets were run the way the Trains are we would be queueing up for food on half empty shelves.

[@madameblatvatsky]

Just wait...

[@blahblah1234392]

And costs three times as much, opening times would be rather hit and miss. At £59,000/year for driving a train when my daughter earns £22,000 as a midwife they should be getting a pay cut! I used the trains to get to work for 40 years, absolute shambles that cost a fortune, classic public sector.

[@madameblatvatsky]

@@blahblah1234392 why not argue for the daughter to get 60 instead of trying to argue the train driver down. FFS

[@sgbh8874]

If you really, really listen to what Grant Schnapps is saying, you’re just wasting your time.

[@PillyXJR]

Ordinary people voted to strike, the unions are only carrying out the workers wishes, no pay rise for 3 years.

[@jgdooley2003]

This is why it is vital for working people to save like mad and build up a fighting fund to support themselves for a long strike. In the present arrangement high levels of personal debt, high mortgages and lack of protections against insolvencies and foreclosures mean that working class people cannot take on the employers in a fair fight for a fair deal. Thye lack the financial clout to do so on their own. You see this plainly in jobs in health, aviation, maritime and a lot of the transport sector. It has been the norm for decades in manufacturing, warehousing and logistics and retail.

[@joycetaylor6224]

Remember the powerful interviewed sitting in front of bookshelves during lockdown? Grant then had 4 books. What more do you need to know about this little man?

[@fergusokane]

I’m happy never travelling by train again if it means this bloke is on tv all the time. Also Shapps literally starts smiling at his own shitty ‘taken for a ride’ pun. A very serious man, indeed.

[@kenwright5144]

Modernisation in this context is an oxymoron when it entails reducing workers to medieval serfdom.

[@ianwheeler7513]

Militant didn't the press report it was the first major strike in thirty years.

[@JC_303]

Kay is British for Karen

[@blue47er]

Why aren't Labour party members agitating to replace Keir Starmer in favour of straight talking Mick Lynch? Not only does Lynch make mincemeat of ridiculous falsities uttered by Tory ministers, but in so doing, he also highlights the duplicitous right-wing twaddle uttered by Starmer.

[@GaryParris]

100% agree

[@James333-n2q]

Is Kay Burley human should be the question here!

[@abhogal11]

Modernisation = Americanise

[@chrispackitt7904]

0.25: the moment when Shapps realises he's said "They've been taking passengers for a ride"

[@skyclaw]

“Since I’ve been transport secretary, there have been strikes all the time.” Telling on yourself a bit there, Grant.

[@ufogrindizer5038]

The journalist question is so stupid! "Is there any other form of action" like they want worker to strike "silently", while they keep working and providing their service and no disruption to society what so ever. It assume that, one they haven't first tried everything possible before, and two that there is a way to strike and make everybody happy, it's so stupid, it's like they have no idea how the world work.

[@GaryParris]

just because the tories blame the workers it doesn't mean the media has to do the same, how about they do their job and blame the exact people who are to blame

[@southney7211]

Yes Dalia, nailed it!

[@thetragicyouth]

Shapps looks and sounds like a generic 1980s Radio 1 DJ.

[@tjenadonn6158]

He looks like one of Boris'bastard children.

[@Sy7her]

We're already heading to the dark ages. Screw it, trial by combat it is. Time to grow a spine Grant so Mick can rip it out.

[@GaryParris]

i think it can easily be called the hunger games, trial by combat. sector workers v sector tory politicians, i know which sector is going to win! and i'm behind them all the way!

[@nsoul8469]

Mick rocks!

[@FFM0594]

If the gov. are really paying 20,000,000 a day, and the RMT has 80,000 members , that would be 8 thousand quid EXTRA for each union member every month. That shows, this is about union busting more than anything else.

[@xxPenjoxx]

"When was the last time you met with the unions?" "Bla bla bla they need to stop this disruption" Shock horror, a politician not answering a direct question. I stand with the Rail Workers ✊️

[@paulherlihy9290]

Well said Delia Gebrial 10/10👍

[@soulboy6073]

Only one Winner Mick' Looks a handy Lad 👍👍

[@_____alyptic]

'Not normal' 160 Disputes *speaks more about the employers*

[@interested-q4d]

Grant Shapps can say that unions are being unreasonable .Try outlawing unions , try making reasonable working conditions illegal and see what happens. The union is part of the democratic network of society. There are no council houses to give away , there are no bir redundancies to give away, this isn't Thatcherism mark two.Most people can see a bleak future when they see one.