Mick Lynch once again wiping the floor with politicians

Enjoy 11 or so minutes of RMT Union leader Mick Lynch once again making mincemeat of anti-union politicians.
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[@georgef822]

I love these Select Committees because they expose how out of touch and useless most of our MPs are.

[@superspectator123]

Out of touch? Your choice of words is just too kind to describe these kind of people.

[@ronmay947]

But does raise questions. I mean self drive cars are close. Those are self contained within the car. The car reads signs , sees people etc on the road. So would have thought self drive trains far easier .. fixed route and scenery. I mean a mid range phone is say £200 .. 2 plus cameras, gps, 4g, wifi even internal battery. So run driverless prototype in parallel with current manned trains .. lear on the job / prove case ? As mick lynch says .. still have someone on the train .. who can be alerted (wifi n mobile ?) To situations to call / veto a stop. At that point link remotely to one skilled train driver to tale over ?

[@nickroach2791]

Self driving care close- wait till all the accidents statistics arrive when they introduce that

[@CensoredSheepChannel]

No shame to be a part of the committee and ask dumb questions 😵

[@inthebeginning6784]

@@ronmay947 both of these examples currently will not work without a serious overhaul in infrastructure. You are buying into the marketing hype around these technologies and need to take a more critical view of how they aren't actually currently meeting expectations and what they would need to actually work

[@wesleymcglone6937]

Since MPs declared war on Mick Lynch, he's gone through 2 Prime Ministers.

[@andythomas706]

Only in your head.

[@ThickRedPaste]

@@andythomas706 shut uuuuuup 🤢🤮🤮

[@andythomas706]

@@ThickRedPaste 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣go back bc to sleep!

[@ThickRedPaste]

@@andythomas706 no u

[@davidcole1670]

😂😂😂😂😂😂👍

[@tomrepton6786]

Barristers got 15% pay rise and it went through quietly and without much mention. How are they so caught up on rail workers getting a pay rise?!

[@tomgreene1843]

Ah ....they had a Sir Humphrey moment....frightfully well negotiated!

[@MurphyOCP-001]

Because they're working class

[@Tank-Dempsey]

because the tories are using this to get the public angry at unions so they can get rid of them. dont fall for it.

[@lindabastable3021]

Class difference. Barristers must be a better class than railworkers. They are professionals who use their brains. They are therefore more deserving of an income commensurate with their status. Rail workers are interchangeable drones who do physical work. Definitely lesser beings who should know their place. When not working they should retire to their hovels until needed again. And they should be grateful to have those hovels. Anyone old enough will recall the delightful 'class' sketch with John Cleese and the two Ronnies. It was satirical, but ... Alas, 40 years on, it is still reality. England is still riddled with appallingly stultifying class differences. Mick Lynch is feted for wiping the floor with all establishment comers. He has a nimble mind. It is the only weapon he requires. Well, that and truth. But the point I am making is that he is not justly famous because he holds his opponents to account. He is also famous because he does it in the wrong accent. England is in a pitiful state.

[@if6was985]

It is all class war...and I'm the nutbar conspiracy bloke...lmfao, class war, always has been.

[@brian.7966]

there is a man who knows what he is talking about.

[@Lilylibra]

Watched this again. Mick effortlessly exposes the committee’s ignorance in every instance. He’s good at his job. 💜👏👏👏

[@kevinnewell7880]

and achieves nothing as usual

[@okipullup6886]

@@kevinnewell7880 who's fault is that?

[@dawnslingsby2324]

Lynch is evil

[@dawnslingsby2324]

No he is't,he an egomaniac just like Scargill

[@davidellis279]

Still hasn’t got a deal has he ???

[@sonerali3047]

Love listening to Mick,jeez it's great to hear someone talk so straight and clear.

[@davidcole1670]

I’ve watched each interview he has done twice, he’s a legend for working people

[@GladysAlicea]

Who also knows facts and stats. Marvelous!

[@208markbrown]

Knows his job inside out , knows his subject, knows the answers to loaded questions. Knows how to be clear in description , faultless public speaking . These public schoolboys and old Etonians must hate him as they’re dismantled with the truth.

[@kevinnewell7880]

and achieve nothing as usual

[@stevengascoigne8627]

What l cannot comprehend is...Why have the Brits keep voting conservative??????...Are the British totally THICK and STUPID...methinks beyond doubt...

[@alansimpson596]

I've heard more sense from Mick in the past three months than politicians in the last twelve years.

[@Soundwave1of9]

I've heard more sense in the 11 minutes of this video!

[@axos3130]

Have you now Maybe explain to me why Mick Lynch is a part of an organization that literally crippled your domestic economy by making companies have to ship jobs to China and Asia?

[@alansimpson596]

@@Soundwave1of9 This would be a good moment to move him to 10 Downing Street and sort out the mess the country is in.

[@leshazell6050]

Making sense as a politician went out the window a very long time ago

[@DrMontague]

@@alansimpson596 He would have to be elected. Once in - he too would be forced to become a CNUT. Capitalism demands him to become a cnut.

[@burropoco]

Driverless trains? Errr no thanks. We already have a driverless Government!

[@CensoredSheepChannel]

Driving everyone off the rails 🤷‍♂️ severe cuts ( job cuts , no raise in pay ) have their consequences which these MP's refuse to acknowledge , some are a waste of carbon footprint space 🤷‍♂️ gotta be politically correct

[@CensoredSheepChannel]

AI , I'm here to drive your trains 🥺 what about the drivers? Statistics 😔

[@lizbourn4192]

Mick is so articulate and intelligent. He knows his subject down to the finest detail. He wipes the floor with everyone who tries to argue with him, in fact he shows them up as ignorant!!

[@shadowandpancakes]

He is not articulate…

[@dreamlessdemand]

@@shadowandpancakes Yes he is!

[@shadowandpancakes]

@@dreamlessdemand you must have very low standards for being articulate then. He sounds like just another one of the lads off the estate.

[@dreamlessdemand]

@@shadowandpancakes Everything he says sounds coherent to me and he talks a lot more sense that most politicians. Other than that, I’m not justifying my opinion to you.

[@ninjabluewings]

​@@shadowandpancakes What a COMPLETE IMBECILE!!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@bustedfender]

He won’t have to buy a pint if he comes round here…

[@tjenadonn6158]

Dude basically has free drinks for life at any bar or pub worth going to.

[@user-vh6ts9uf6c]

He can afford his own

[@GG-ml3vr]

@@user-vh6ts9uf6c Why wouldnt he?

[@chrisarcher6972]

@@user-vh6ts9uf6c so can I; doesn't mean that no one ever buys me one...

[@elainesadlier2401]

I love to sit down with a cup of coffee and just watch Mick Lynch make fools of them all? It's somehow life-affirming!!

[@davidcole1670]

And entertaining

[@bobb5173]

Its a shame that Mick is trying to educate pork but he is trying

[@Anon-xd3cf]

sentient hams...

[@sthomas2603]

Pigs are more intelligent, actually...

[@honeybadger4574]

@@sthomas2603 pigs might be intelligent, but porks just a piece of lifeless meat.

[@andythomas706]

He succeeded. He educated you. Mick Lynch can kiss my ass!

[@carpog]

A Tory MP giving unions lectures on democratic representation at this particular moment in time, is how should I put it politely, inconsistent.

[@rjmurphy298]

Absolutely incredibly pragmatic sensible logical human being. One day I hope our politicians will care this much about their members

[@DrMontague]

politicians do care for their own , they make sure all MPs get good wages. They don't give a shit about those not in parliament. They only pretend to give a shit! They always tell the working class fcuktards that they must except low wages until they turn the economy around. The working class fcuktards fall for it time and time again. FCUK STARMER

[@neznykvet7472]

I wouldn't hold my breath about politicians ever caring for public other then their own pockets.

[@DrMontague]

@@DaysOfDarknessUK They are sensible and logical, they know how to make a good living by robbing the working class fcuktards blind. Good on Liz Truss she guaranteed £115 000 per year for life. yet the working class laughed and mocked for being useless!

[@andythomas706]

Setting the working man against the working man. Deluded or what.

[@andythomas706]

@@DaysOfDarknessUK Yeah. We'd all be living in mud huts! Shut up or wake up!

[@bobwatts5662]

This man is formidable in the face of these clever dicks. Try as they might he has an answer for everything they throw at him. Inspirational.

[@kevdubbya]

They are not particularly clever dicks!

[@call_in_sick]

It’s great to see someone not only stand up to them, but, expose their complete idiocy.

[@annapachaclarke2392]

That is because they aren't very clever. They are just used to getting away with their bullshit. If you are sharp minded, realistic and a fighter, you will be labelled a fascist! That is a practice always used by the weakminded fantasist, and the corrupt!

[@cassk9999]

He’s a true general

[@virginiacollins-walker7569]

Love how articulate intelligent and knowledgeable Mick is, without people like him representing the normal hard working public the elite would still have small children cleaning chimneys and working down the mines.

[@richardbrown1189]

I love it when an MP tries to trip Mick Lynch up, like the question about driverless trains. He politely but firmly tells them where they're wrong and once again demonstrates that he knows far more about the subject than they do.

[@jamiejosh96]

Lol how much is Mick paid a year?

[@blabber1975]

Not enough

[@jeee6835]

@@jamiejosh96 86k. Paid by members who voted him in.

[@jamiejosh96]

@@jeee6835 lol do the members know that. And no wrong, he is on well in excess of 120,000 if you include benefits. The top 5 earned 500k in 2020 alone. Typical communists

[@justno808]

@@jeee6835 That's works out to considerably less than Liz Truss who was... Not elected by the public. 😂

[@kglester1889]

Whenever Mick Lynch talks, I stop and listen. Wouldn't he be a GREAT Prime Minister!! Those foolish politicians didn't know what hit them! Keep on keeping on Mick!!

[@johnkavanagh3830]

No Absolutely not. He'd have to toe the party line and lie to stay elected.

[@Anon-xd3cf]

Somebody needs to sit down with these MPs and make them watch and listen to this video over and over again UNTIL they can articulate where they went wrong.

[@davidmenham1782]

This guy should be Prime Minister

[@chrisl.9750]

things would be pretty good, I have a feeling. too good to be true.

[@jcli5976]

Lynch, Dempsey and Ward are all absolutely brilliant union leaders, and also far too genuine of character to climb up the greasy pole of success in the Labour party.

[@dragonfly6908]

Yes, of Venezuela.

[@jonmc6078]

The man is the only person who makes any coherent argument at the moment. Brilliant in this format.

[@SAMJE123456]

No he should,nt be prime minister ,hes just sticking up for workers. The problem is that the government who do f all apart from looking at their internet or mobile phone have,nt got a clue what to do since we left the european union.

[@androiduser4162]

mick really shines amongst this gang of tricksters and thieves what a legend wow imagine mick as our pm !!!

[@peterkin1010]

One of the most outstanding Union leaders we've had in donkey's years.

[@andythomas706]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DrMontague]

Just that he voted tory! The strikes have been called off for November. Negotiations are going good according to the RMT website. If they get a deal do you really think the RMT will strike on behalf of care workers, nurses, all health care workers. Will they hell. They will say 'thanks for your support now FCUK OFF' I'M all RIGHT JACK!

[@andythomas706]

@@DrMontague I don’t see overpaid Dockers striking to bring nurses pay up to their level.

[@DrMontague]

@@andythomas706 Of course the dockers won't They are all scumbags , And yes I am pissed off with people telling me what a super hero Mick lynch is. Again if they get a pay settlement they will say thanks for your support, now fcuk off and BTW good luck. I have seen it all before

[@patrickkelly7085]

@@andythomas706 Instead of talking about Dockers and their wages how about talking about Politicians.

[@Tom_Roberts]

The RMT always had great leaders who fought for their members. One of the last REAL trade unions. Bob Crow was a legend and Mick Lynch follows his legacy.

[@theshadow5800]

Mick is a star. If there were only more public and private leaders like him, the UK might once again rise and take a seat at the table of world leadership.

[@noneofyourbizness]

Will NO ONE think of the bone idle shareholders? where would their ever increasing handouts come from without tory corrupting the system to make sure they damn well get them...by the billion per week?

[@clemobenoit5813]

Setting your sights low there....🤣

[@theshadow5800]

@@clemobenoit5813 can you be bit less cryptic? What point are you struggling to make? Without sarcasm s’il vous plait.

[@leonharrison800]

Agreed. We need more Mick Lynches across Britain.

[@chrislaing7108]

Bang on, Mick. There needs to be so much more of this.

[@neilfletcher4951]

He's so good at this its almost cruel to clueless politicians

[@nigelbenn4642]

Nah, it's not cruel

[@jamiejosh96]

Can you name a Union that long term has lead to anything but job loses please?

[@nigelbenn4642]

@@jamiejosh96 Unison, Unite, NUT, TUC, STUC, even AW Union fights to keep jobs mate. capitalism cuts jobs mate not Unions, if it were the other way round they'd stop existing. FFS

[@jamiejosh96]

@@nigelbenn4642 they quite literally do stop existing. They start and then push to much, look at the miners. It’s hilarious how you think capitalism, the biggest driver in jobs cuts them. Nothing has created more prosperity then capitalism. That both the rich and poor, feel free to look at them numbers drawn out of poverty in the last 100 years

[@jamiejosh96]

@@nigelbenn4642 oh just a moment on yeh unions mentioned

[@paulinskipukprogressive4903]

Mick is next level

[@dbuckley100]

I'm an Irish man and I wish we had someone like Mick here now to talk up for the working class in front of our clueless politicians. He never looked down once to read any figures or anything else, spoke confidently with all the info and facts in his head, which can't be said for the clowns asking the questions!!

[@willie8976]

The last type of person the irish working class needs ,,,read road to Wigan pier,,,he doesn't like the working class we are just his pawns ,,,he just hates the rich ,,,,the man never done a hard day's labour in his life ,,,,,wealth is created but goons like this think its just simply exists ,,,,

[@explorer0213]

The corrupt clowns that now their games are up.

[@chrisarcher6972]

He's Irish!

[@snafufubar]

It's almost like none of the mps on this committee know anything about the railway.

[@GladysAlicea]

They know only one thing, greed for themselves and their donors.

[@PMMagro]

This is like seeing pupils at school trying to lecture an expert teacher. The Union rep kills them every single time and one is not even sure they understood what happened....

[@five-eyes666]

And "expert teacher" hilarious the teaching profession is anything but Expert! The majority of pupils far exceed the expert teachers!

[@neillees1530]

Working class bloke making MPs from privileged backgrounds look clueless. Great stuff. Just shows how out of touch our political system is. We need more people from Micks background in decision making positions, people who care about *everyone * not just the wealthy and have workable ideas to sort the problems caused by our out of touch over privileged politicians.

[@paulhudson5587]

So whos the more privileged then? The MPs on 6 figure salaries...or the working class bloke on the same 6 figure salary? I wouldnt give either a job selling pencils to be honest

[@neillees1530]

@@paulhudson5587 the MP, private school, oxbridge, wealth from an early age and all the numerous perks of being an MP While Mick Lynch has had none of that succeeded despite this.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

Ynch is a marzist who supports russia.

[@davidellis279]

He’s that good at his job his members have lost probably thousands in overtime and strike days while he hasn’t lost a penny while this dispute has gone on,really smart that is. He can huff and puff all he wants but they ain’t going to cave into his demands ever,anyone with a brain would have realised that by now but while he’s not losing any money what does he care,he won’t call an outright strike because it would cripple the union financially in no time when they had to pay strike pay though God knows where all the subscription money has gone.

[@neillees1530]

@@davidellis279 if they do win they'll make up the lost overtime with the pay rise they deserve. Really? I thinkbthey might. And what's wrong with the workers being paid fairly and properly?

[@hg82met]

I remember the hysterical Daily Heil headline (I know there are many) which said "If Corbyn is elected, unions will be invited to 10 Downing St." As if that was an unthinkably terrible thing to happen. They'd rather have the lobbyists and press moguls pulling the levers in the interests of the obscenely rich than the working class people.

[@GEricG]

I don't understand how people don't see through the way that the right wing media is clearly protecting the Tory government's vested interests.

[@RJAH355]

He’s hit the nailed on the head. The private company make money no matter what cause the government pays them even if the public don’t use the train. The government is happy to keep giving money to private company bosses but not the working class people. The back bone of this country.

[@vincevinnyp9224]

Well yes except their investors make less than if the same investment was just in a deposit account - or if you prefer it's cheaper for them to make that profit than to borrow the money.

[@andredeketeleastutecomplex]

A very weak backbone at this point.

[@mooch4274]

@@andredeketeleastutecomplex ???

[@Erictheaviator]

Thank you Mick. Love you can talk to people that really don’t understand the plot

[@GladysAlicea]

That’s because Mick’s talking to people so privileged, they’re living in the clouds, but some day they’ll be living in hell.

[@nimuehstorm3103]

Well done Mick for keeping your cool amongst these clowns.

[@SAMJE123456]

You can call them clowns but the next day they will still turn up do the same so called job and get paid.(HOW SAD IS THAT).

[@GladysAlicea]

That’s the Brit’s’ fault. You whine but try marching instead, and they’ll know who’s boss.

[@skippythemagnificent8103]

Wow, when Mick explained his answers so logically and defines clear corruption then response is to ignore everything and act as if Mick has no idea, you know your talking directly to those executing the corruption.

[@andythomas706]

You need therapy Skippy!

[@annapachaclarke2392]

@@andythomas706 Speak for yourself, sugarplum!!

[@andythomas706]

@@annapachaclarke2392 I always do! Only you are presumptuous enough to speak for anybody else.

[@kenreeve6549]

Well done Mick put this obnoxious public school boy back in his box and send him back

[@DedLoko]

This guy is amazing!

[@simongurung7715]

Pint 🍺for Mick all the way from Nepal

[@samrobinson4013]

Mick Lynch needs to run for primeminister. He is EXACTLY what this country needs to pull us out this shitstorm. He is 100% genuine in everything he says and has a wide range of knowledge in economics and statistics. I feel like if he didn't know something he would ask for advice off his council and advisors rather than just guess his way through everything as we've had from our most recent primeministers. He is literally the hero we need but don't deserve.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

HES A MARZIST

[@mypointofview1111]

Love how Mick just turned their arguments back on them. The trouble with MPs is that they still think we're living in the 1970s in terms of trades union relations goes. The world has moved on, the rights our parents and grandparents fought for are being trashed daily by these privileged nobodies who think its their right to ride roughshod over everyone. We all need and deserve better. Better working lives and conditions, better pay, better care for the sick, elderly and unemployed. Better still give people the means to afford to live more freely as they do.

[@BENTWOONEZERO]

And you will pay for this how ?

[@jeee6835]

@@BENTWOONEZERO are you serious? The money in the Railway is a cashcow for private equity firms who contribute nothing to the Railway but take not only dividends but a % of every rail ticket sold in this country. Who the hell sanctioned that? Oh, the dft. Who champion privatised Rail. Your answer is staring you straight in the face.

[@BENTWOONEZERO]

@@jeee6835 Only 6 railways are owned and operated by UK companies out of about 30.

[@reevs2153]

@@BENTWOONEZERO ...right? How does that counter his argument about how to fund his ideas?

[@reevs2153]

@@BENTWOONEZEROdo you have even a basic understanding of what your talking about? companies which operate in the uk have to pay tax on the income they generate here and they most certainly can be taxed further or taken into public ownership. (This was in response to his deleted comment where he claimed that foreign domiciled companies dont pay uk tax lol)

[@oc2phish07]

Mick really is an outstanding orator and really understands everything he talks about. So different from the people on the opposite side who always appear out of their depth when they come up against him.

[@pantarei8382]

hes like a one eyed man in a land full of blind men arguing about colour

[@memphisdaniels3218]

If you spout nonsense with enough confidence then idiots will believe you, this is proven by both this cretins career and this channels existence

[@fieldofsky3632]

moreover the people facing him are pathological accountants

[@aluisious]

These hired goons are in their positions because they're feckless lazy bastards who want to live a posh lifestyle in exchange for doing nothing other than selling out their constituents. It's no wonder they're out of their depth. If there were actually MPs who cared about people they'd be happy to have a competent, credible counterpart to work with.

[@danielholder8167]

He’s a tit

[@avakholwadia1420]

Isn’t it the job of the management to assure that people use their facilities. Perhaps is as Mick says shouldn’t there be an accountability for the management. These people need to represent their people not freeloading private investors. Rock on Mick.

[@jamiejosh96]

You want people to wipe your ass for you as well

[@johng1181]

wonder how much lynch s (sheep)av lost during rail strike whilst the shepherd rakes in a good salary was e not on av I got news 4 you lately now that is taking the Mickey

[@andythomas706]

Who invests in the dock to make it bigger. Private investors. Of course they want a return.

[@johnpen2188]

😊l

[@nickroach2791]

where did they get their money from to make that investment?

[@Glumclam]

This guy is great, I wish we had him in the US.

[@GladysAlicea]

Yes. He’s what Bernie could’ve been.

[@petermorgan6309]

Never EVER wastes a word that man. ✅ Wish he was the Prime Minister.

[@derekfox6]

Your grandad's said that about Scargill in England and McCarthy in Scotland. Liar's the lot of them, worse really. So here we go.

[@keithraggett5481]

If he was prime minister he would give everyone a wage rise and bring this country to a standstill wakeup every one wage rises pushes up prices and round we go again live on my wages then you may have something to moan about, the problems we are going through is a world problem don't add to it

[@derekfox6]

@@keithraggett5481 everything you text moments ago, is absolutely true.

[@lindacurrie8817]

​@@derekfox6 OK dinosaur. This is not 1970, 80. People under 50 today were not there are more interested 2022,23. Union reps today are well educated far more than many politicians. Reason as to why many citizens choose to follow Mick all in the same boat trying to scrape a living. Mick has educated people to not be sheeples by providing facts and correcting Torie bullshit. RMT the catalyst for strike action and many other workers will come out and have. Workers help to make the humongous profit but see none of it latter is not just or fair. Battle will continue for as long as required. Rightly so. If want change will have to sadly fight for it. Grave indeed when Torie government becomes workers worst nightmare and many citizens are battling with own government for a decent salary increase and work life balance when should not have to but will make no mistake about that.

[@lharris2589]

We need someone like Mick in the US. ASAP. Actually no, we need about 10 Mick's in the US ASAP

[@samneil496]

Never, we only have one Mick and we can’t risk losing him

[@kevinnewell7880]

you are welcome to him and all the others like him

[@MomMom-cq3ih]

Trust me, our Country has greater need. Not many Mick's as competent as this one. The majority of our MPs are brought & paid for!!!!!

[@CD-nk3jq]

Like political lambs to the slaughter. The so called driverless trains bit was priceless when the MP taps out and hands back to the chair

[@noneofyourbizness]

i know, it's like the idiot really thinks there are zero drivers !

[@Lilylibra]

There isn’t one single instance when asked a question, when Mick doesn’t immediately take the wind out of their sails. They’re there with puffed out chests, arrogant and contemptuous of this cockney geezer, only to find, he knows his stuff and they are out of their depth and facing a man on a mission 👍😍

[@vincevinnyp9224]

Except he dodges how do they pay for the pay rise as, even if they made no profit, that only accounts for less than a 2% pay rise.

[@thehumancanary131]

In March of this year MP'S were given a 2,200 pound pay rise - they now get 84,144 pounds/year plus generous expense allowances and overly-generous pension rights!!

[@chrisarcher6972]

Don't forget the hugely subsidised food and booze in the House!

[@Retrobeemer]

*It's quite telling that these so called ''politicians'' simply cannot comprehend or understand the common sense being spoken by Mick Lynch. He may as well be speaking Swahili for all the understanding they're displaying. Even the questions they're putting to Mick are based on lies or misinformation. We (the workforce in the UK) all need a Mick Lynch fighting for us. How can it be that I work a full-time professional role yet, even with my Mrs doing the same, we can barely afford to pay the bills each month? It's not as if we lead an extravagant lifestyle and we haven't had a holiday in bloody years! I work for a homeless charity and have clients that get more in benefits than I get in monthly salary. We don't even own our home because most local property is owned as second homes by people in London! Mind you, according to Liz Truss I'm not working hard enough (despite being disabled and still doing 37.5hrs a week!) and should just nip out in my lunch break (on the rare occasion I can take one) and get one of those better paid jobs she talks about. Oh well, 10 more years and I can retire and live in poverty whilst I wait for the bailiffs to come and make me homeless.*

[@p..8210]

Brilliant and there’s 168 hours in the week. So you’re currently working /about 22 % of the week and 78%of the week not working crying you have no money. Get another job why do you only work 37.5 hours a week work 70 and don’t be broke. Typical English person say their crying they have no money but only work 5 days a week 8 hours a day.

[@Retrobeemer]

@@p..8210 I'm guessing English isn't your first language given that you failed to either read or understand what I'd written? As I said, I'm disabled and physically not able to work longer hours. I'm already fighting not to lose my left leg. I also do voluntary work with the homeless and people less fortunate than myself, of which there are many, so work 60 hours each week. My working week is spread over Tuesday to Saturday, with an hour commute each way and every Monday in hospital.

[@user-zp2bb1fk3h]

@@p..8210 OK, so work those 70 hours and have less time with your family and friends, then die earlier due to the health implications that result from working longer hours. By your logic you wouldn't have any right to feeling aggrieved if an armed gang decided to burst in your house, tie up your family and rob you. Should just protect your house better....

[@annapachaclarke2392]

@@p..8210 Wow, is ignorant your middle name.

[@thewhippetwhispereretal4438]

He ran that many rings around them it became circuit training.

[@t.jconnolly6492]

A man who talks truth without wavering ,private company's are all about profits

[@paulhudson5587]

Well, call me old fashioned, but theyre MEANT to make a profit. If they make a loss, people get laid off

[@vinderloovince3011]

Train drivers earn up to 80k pa plus for a 35 hour week, half again for pensions. 200 applicants for every train drivers job...not such a bad deal already is it 🤔

[@t.jconnolly6492]

In wich country do they earn that much ,and were are you getting your facts from ,if you know so much ,do you know who owns all train companies and how much profit is going to different country's out side of the UK ?

[@samanthahardy9903]

@@paulhudson5587 The point is 1.The amount of profits made by the companies are not going back into the businesses to improve them. 2. Those working at the bottom for companies are often on minimum wage and without them there would be no business. 3. Those at the top are getting much bigger pay rises than those at the bottom. E.g. If a CEO's wage is £250,000 per year and they get a 2% payrise that's an increase of £5,000 (more if based on share profits) in 1 year. If a worker at the bottom earning £20,000 per year received an 11% payrise in line with inflation they would get a pay increase of £2,000. However, quite often (if a company gives a pay rise) they usually will pay the ones on the bottom 3% or less. So if the ones at the bottom are on £20,000 per year get a 3% pay rise that's only an extra £600 per year ( approx £11 per week) before tax. So after tax, national insurance and pension contributions it's even less. Increasing wages at the bottom will hit the profits of big companies and the pockets of those raking it in at the top. Why should those at the bottom have to resort to using foodbanks and not be able to afford to heat their homes and pay their rents when those at the top can and do cream off the profits to line their own pockets?

[@paulhudson5587]

@@samanthahardy9903 you know what? Its a tired old argument...lets make poor people rich by making rich people poor. Lets just tax these businesses out of existence, or just tax them until they leave for another country? then NO ONE will be getting ANY money will they? None of these strikes are about money, theyre about putting a left wing government in power, nothing more.

[@raymondelf7520]

one man from the real world Schools collage types

[@gethynphillips7739]

He’s my hero and every person that works to live should have his back 😊

[@wendyransome6618]

I love to hear someone who is on top of all the facts and is knowledgeable about their specialty. It’s fair to say I’ve heard no one in government as eloquent as this.

[@sharonmcwilliams7042]

Loved this so much the shock on the Tory Minister's face when they were put in their place by Mick Lynch, priceless.

[@carolmccormack9498]

Great Work, MICK LYNCH! SHOW UP THE IGNORANT RABBLE FOR WHAT THEY ARE WORTH- WHICH IS NOTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE! MICK LYNCH, A MAN OF THE PEOPLE! WE NEED HIM AS PART OF OUR NEW LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE, ALONG WITH THE REST OF THOSE WORTHY, TO REPRESENT OUR DECENT, WORKING PEOPLE ! SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE, & THE APPLICATION OF PRACTICAL, SUCCESSFUL COMMON SENSE!! I WILL VOTE FOR YOU ANY DAY!!

[@terbog]

Mick Lynch obviously knows his stuff.

[@kevinnewell7880]

and achieves nothing as usual

[@scooby1992]

Huw Merriman is one of the more sensible Tory MPs and still Mick had him on the ropes . When Mick was asked why every offer wasnt put to his members his retort about 'why dont you ask all of your constituents ' was brilliant .

[@mattschwensen9562]

I wish we had union representation like this in Australia. We just seem to have thugs and bullies

[@user-ot1dv6ri4f]

What have I discovered this morning. What a gem.

[@r-pupz7032]

Mick Lynch has done the impossible, he has united the working class ✊

[@andythomas706]

No he hasn't! Half the workers on Felixstowe dock didn't want to strike! I know I'm one of them. You only think he's united the working man. It fits in with your ideological point of view. Dock workers earn more than Nurses and Soldiers! Get real!

[@Youbetterstopstartin]

@@andythomas706 show some solidarity then big baller

[@andythomas706]

@@Youbetterstopstartin don’t be a Luddite! Half the working class are causing grief for the other half. Wake up and smell the coffee butterball!

[@juliewake4585]

Oh god Mick: it was great to hear your wonderful sense again.

[@doyoumind.atall.stopspying5572]

He is great man. And great public speaker and he so funny.

[@Johnmell100]

Total respect to this man!!

[@buzzukfiftythree]

If the TOCs can't make a profit (which of course most do) then they 'hand back the keys'. Most do make a reasonable profit at the public's expense and, as Mick says, we need a public rail system that works for the people, not the private equity groups and companies that currently fund them (many of which are foreign enterprises). I don't want my taxes funding company profits, thank you, especially when they are run inefficiently.

[@surroundedbymorons3491]

why can't we have someone like this as our PM instead of the soulless puppets we have been getting since Winston Churchill.

[@johncopeland3826]

Masterful Mick Lynch .

[@37adrianporter]

TOFFS think they know it all, they only know that TOFFS will be TOFFS !

[@georgebrowne5935]

Great Respect for Mick Lynch. The Working Class People must always be put first in any Society, and not the fat Cat few in Society.

[@carollooker64]

Legend..

[@ciarand2823]

Ask him a stupid question and he'll make you look stupid, can't say fairer than that 😏

[@vitocorleone7040]

Please be our new PM Mick we need you 👏❤️

[@noneofyourbizness]

the UK media (~100%) would kill him like they did Corbyn. nation of suckers...easy pickings for billionaires.

[@cjheeley]

Go on Mick. We are behind you and the fight. Love you ❣️

[@paulhammond6701]

Mick just wow !!!! Go man go !!!!!

[@terrythomas3755]

Keep in mind that the Tory MPs asking these questions awarded themselves an 11% increase, and claim expenses often double their salary. Support the RMT. If they lose, we all lose.

[@jamiejosh96]

How much does Mick get paid a year exactly? Go on have a look….

[@terrythomas3755]

@@jamiejosh96 wtf has that got to do with the current dispute? The average wage of RMT workers is £31k. Additionally the current dispute is a lot more than about wages. Go on, have a look....

[@jamiejosh96]

@@terrythomas3755 what has that got to do…. You mention the salary of the mps but not the salary directly paid for by their members. Btw the top 5 earned £500,000 in 2020 alone… it’s called hypocrisy

[@jameshutton3960]

@@jamiejosh96 Mick Lynch does not get paid anywhere near what you are suggesting, go read the daily Mail some more :)

[@jameshutton3960]

84,000 a year which is not alot for his role and responsibilities.

[@Vision-sp8zf]

This is an example of knowing your subject matter.

[@stuartryde9473]

They lost their mojo after the driverless trains question. Don't tell me the government was thinking about it

[@MarkSmith-ym5td]

I love how this tool swings his glasses around in an attempt to look in control and intelligent and comes off looking anything but.

[@robertsteel3233]

When I watched Thunderbirds all those years ago, as a small boy, I always saw The Hood as a villain, but now he just comes across as a bald bloke talking common sense.

[@jaycam2886]

These MPs are a fine example of wrong people in the wrong jobs, this is the troth that lingers in Westminster now that's why we are all getting poorer by the day!!!

[@DocuFlow]

Articulate, calm, factual. Such a contrast to the MPs corporate driven double talk. Free speech is not the same as false speech.

[@marekbajor998]

Good on ya Mick! Once again we see the Politicians as they are.....Muppets!

[@uropium3857]

Odd choice of words. The *human beings* who work on the railway. Not people?

[@stevebishop8445]

Mick for PM! 🔥

[@daniellewis4226]

I am aghast at the total incompetence and lack of understanding demonstrated by these politicians. No wonder we are in such a bad state. Tories and Truss thick as Mince.

[@SS-mf5bz]

Mick lynch spot on not many can handle this guy he's sharp and on point

[@tobyhotshot1093]

What a breath of fresh air

[@kevinnewell7880]

lot of hot air coming out from Lynch

[@carolinegreen6594]

Love your truthful words Mick Lynch. God bless you and may you never cave in as you are representing all who want fairness.

[@mariawhite1328]

They keep trying to do gotcha questions because they have no clue how to do their job properly! Go Mick!

[@yetidodger6650]

The chairman thinking it looks intelligent to keep toying with his glasses, tories are all guff and bluster, grifters simply out for a fast buck.

[@bearsey26]

As for train fares? I know for a fact that it’s cheaper to drive a 10mpg motorcar with a 6.3 litre engine 300 miles with two people on board than the £260 it would have cost us each to travel the same distance by train, so really, even with the current fuel costs, it’s cheaper to travel by big block! (Engines with 8 cylinders generally over 5.7litres to the uninitiated) by train, the same journey would’ve cost us £520! Taking into account my mpg doubles on motorways to nearer 20mpg, and no MOT or road tax to throw into the equation, plus I repair and service it myself being a simple old thing! Don’t talk to me about the green bit, not while we still generate a fair amount of electricity with fossil fuels, it’s all hypocritical to me, but well done Mick, these public schoolboys need telling! Mick lynch as the next prime minister please!

[@billytlowthian2371]

Well done Mick 👏👏

[@philhahn]

When O'Brien said "he wasn't just a hero, he was a union man." He meant Mick Lynch.

[@lehanedermot]

The trouble is they think they are clever.

[@annapachaclarke2392]

Except they aren't, otherwise they would recognise their own bullshit which spews from their mouths. Listening to most politicians speak, makes me realise just how terribly dim most of them are. An expensive education for these politicians, just seems to produce an elecuted voice and of course reliable connections!!

[@iankeeley1854]

How much of a rise did MPs get ?

[@deeocarolan2301]

Mick Lynch I love you - keep going for the workers - in solidarity - don’t give up - you are so clever - cleverer than them - don’t forget to fight for non travel union members ie NHS - I work for the NHS and we need your ongoing support now - thank you.

[@bells1969]

It’s amazing just how out of touch theses people are mick your a credit to the unions

[@paramidge8935]

The most honest and reasonable man in British politics. I do not always agree with him (the Brexit fiasco etc.) but his ability to present a case, calmly, with Real knowledge of the details and thereby resist the govt. cant and spin is extraordinary. We need many more like Mick.

[@saw6386]

He's not in politics he couldn't afford the pay cut.

[@alana8863]

Lynch is brilliant.