'You're trying to be clever!' | Steve Hedley and Martin Daubney clash in bitter row over rail strike

[@dftfire]

While I understand people constantly wanting to fight for higher-pay, it still means ticket-prices will have to go up to cover the increases. And that means the poorest continue to get priced-off using the trains.

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

Let shareholders take less.

[@kevingrant7098]

Shareholders have received £70 billion since privatisation

[@Celtictribes]

​@@AlanFagan-y5lOr cut the pay of lazy train drivers.

[@Celtictribes]

​@@kevingrant7098So what !

[@unusedsub3003]

​@@CeltictribesThickoooo

[@angelaeastwood3938]

Oh steve is touchy this morning. The Truth hurts. 😁

[@brianbell3836]

The interviewer got his face snapped shut.

[@ScragNath]

Just stop using trains.

[@Celtictribes]

Most people already have.😊

[@mikechapman8896]

never use a train anymore as unreliable and costly

[@brianbell3836]

Of course, they are. They're owned by foreign governments. The Tories sold them off.

[@paulcoulson2584]

You stay on strike as long as you like,im a taxi driver and its wonderful for business.

[@daveevans2696]

Fair play Martin, you hit a big nerve there, he got very angry very quickly. 😡😡

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

Would have thought Martin would have known the Police can't strike. The Police and the Armed Forces are not happy with their imposed pay rises.

[@paulbrunton877]

You would not be happy if a tunnel collapsed while on your journey due to lack of maintenance staff 😂

[@Celtictribes]

​@@paulbrunton877What utter nonsense.

[@dftfire]

​@@AlanFagan-y5lMartin never claimed the police can strike... he lists examples of public-sector workers which have accepted their pay-rises. Watch the video again

[@brianbell3836]

@@dftfire He implied they'd accepted an offer.

[@Nevilledpsn]

Martins question was spot on Steve’s on a power drive

[@YMC1955]

Think you hit a nerve, Martin

[@Phil-bc2sd]

The greed of these unions is disgraceful it’s time the rail companies started GETTING RID

[@unusedsub3003]

I'm guessing you're a bit dim. You should be angry at the shareholders, but you only get upset about what you're told to get upset about.

[@anthonyclegg1511]

You are obviously a tory, with a chauffer driven limousine.

[@jujutrini8412]

The greed of the shareholders is disgraceful.

[@petertheboomscott2104]

This man is so angry for no reason. I bet he shouts at swans in the park in his spair time. Why give him air time.

[@historex54tamiya]

As a socialist you would then want to redistribute that massive pay rise!

[@Mikeboris1]

Haha, nope

[@tonyfraser1749]

Evrybody is a good socialist until it comes to your money!!!!

[@tonyfraser1749]

@@johnkitching2248 and your proof of that??

[@tonyfraser1749]

@@johnkitching2248 A certain percentage of all profits from all company's is put back into the maintenance and running costs, Improvements and such!!! That is statutory in any business and how it works!! And people do not go into business to earn nothing do they?? otherwise there would be no business and no jobs!! would there???? If your going to take the profits away from those people who have INVESTED in their business's or company's INVESTED BEING THE WORD YOU MISS OUT IN YOUR COMMENTS, then wher is the incentive in people getting any return on their money or even becoming wealthy?? Or are you just jealous of people having the funds to become more wealthy than you??? Because without those people ther would be no INVESTMENT,and no jobs!!! Who's fault is it you chose your path in life and they chose their's???

[@Celtictribes]

​@@johnkitching2248They can afford it as they are already over paid.

[@hellfire4337]

Oh Steve, the guy who poses in pictures holding an AK-47 while wearing a soviet hat, nothing political going on at all.

[@brianbell3836]

Don't talk shite.

[@Thespian-wp6xq]

"It wouldn't actually cost anything." Get him a job as chancellor. Now get back to work and pay your taxes. People with no right to be here depend on you.

[@arcadealchemist]

they are making it hard to even run a small buisness because of ulez now so it's like all the cities are being locked down and trade being blocked by our own government officals it's like creating a cancer that feeds it's self but kills the nation in the process.

[@jimwalton2014]

Brilliant!!

[@timg1246]

You are mis-interpreting what he said. He was saying money paid out in dividends should instead go to pay staff. That would indeed be cost neutral to the company.

[@TarquinbartholomewSmithe-qm6tt]

@@timg1246it went way over your head didn’t it 🙄

[@TarquinbartholomewSmithe-qm6tt]

🤣🤣spot on !

[@steve16196]

It doesn't take much to get a leftist angry

[@brianbell3836]

It was a typically irritating question from a Right Wing bigot who makes £120,000 p a

[@cashkitty3472]

This is going to lead to driverless trains. It will cost less to do so

[@Celtictribes]

The sooner the better 😊

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

And can't wait for pilotless planes!😮

[@Celtictribes]

@@AlanFagan-y5lDon't be childish, driverless trains are already here & if you put your left-wing bias down for a minute you would see that the likes of Tony Blair don't want the common people to fly or have our own personal transport.

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

​@@CeltictribesDo you honestly think that the innovations in drone and air craft technology is not going to lead to pilotless planes in the future?

[@Celtictribes]

@@AlanFagan-y5l No ! 99% of the time planes are flown by computer already. What i am saying is that like owning personal transport flying will be for the elites only. Tony Blair, the WEF, Sadiq Khan, fishy Risi all believe this. There is a bigger agenda going on here & it is yet to be revealed. And the EU is another disaster waiting to happen.

[@Mikeboris1]

Sack all of them, lay on union free busses / workers

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

The unions would run the trains for free on strike days but are not allowed to under Tory anti union laws.

[@paulbrunton877]

Fool.

[@brianbell3836]

Back to the Dark Ages?

[@brianmorecombe2726]

GET BACK TO WORK AND BE THANKFUL YOU LOT ARE PAID WHAT YOU ARE PAID..

[@brianbell3836]

YOU CAN TAKE THAT OPINION AND SHOVE IT

[@brianmorecombe2726]

@@brianbell3836 A GRAND PLUS A WEEK THEY GET AND THEY STRIKE STOPPING ME 200 MILES FROM HOME? I EARN LESS THAN HALF THAT SO YOU SHUT IT.

[@iancoles1349]

Saw this shxt back in the 80s with the minors.And we all know what happened to that industry.

[@brianbell3836]

Thatcher wanted to close down British industry. She succeeded.

[@trevaudio]

Try that in English Ian….good lad !

[@iancoles1349]

@@trevaudio yes scab

[@joycejnn]

It is exactly why the unions are wanting the strikes .

[@stirlingmoss4621]

several issues covered. Do you mean all of them or one motive in particular?

[@brianbell3836]

The government want strikes to scare Daily Mail readers

[@richardwoods3313]

The best thing I did was to stop paying my RMT fees that was a good pay rise

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

Does that mean you won't accept the pay rise the union finally settles on?

[@kevingrant7098]

You’re intelligent, Richard 😂

[@richardwoods3313]

@user-im8us6sg5d I retired from the railways best thing I ever did

[@Celtictribes]

​@@AlanFagan-y5lThe RMT like the coal miners before them are destroying their own industry.

[@dftfire]

​@@CeltictribesI support them wanting higher pay, but yeah... long-term, if more and more people are priced-off the railways, could they continue to argue successfully they need to have no more redundancies? I'd find it hard to think you need the same level of staff in future if passenger numbers continue to fall

[@Hypestrike1]

Steve Hedley is a fool. (Miranda Priestley voice) That's all.

[@insomnijack7528]

WHY ARE ALL UNION COMMIIES BALD!?!?!? 🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

Because they pull their hair out having to answer right wing client journalists predictable questions.😃

[@insomnijack7528]

@user-im8us6sg5d Yeah, their questions are so predictable, yet they're never clever enough to think of an answer for them. "Grrr me no know answer to question! Me so dumb!" *RIP* 🤣

[@mariaobeirne514]

😂

[@brianbell3836]

Why are all the Right Wing presenters so thick?

[@insomnijack7528]

Yeah we should take money away from people who own businesses and give them out equally to the workers according to their needs, that's an idea that hasn't been tried in the past and definitely hasn't gone horrendously wrong.

[@englanduk6131]

@insomnijack... How did that work for South Africa?

[@IRONLUNG187]

The police are always on strike what's he talking bout 😆😂🤣

[@gooseGoose-et1wl]

The one group of people who never lose out…the share holders, benefiting from our subsidies!!!

[@Celtictribes]

Without shareholders most businesses would not exist.

[@gooseGoose-et1wl]

@@Celtictribes they wouldn’t exist in the way we know them to exist , businesses would still exist but perhaps be more responsible

[@Celtictribes]

@@gooseGoose-et1wl That's nonsense, the railways used to be nationalised & it was an unmitigated disaster.

[@gooseGoose-et1wl]

@@Celtictribes and they’re better now ???

[@Celtictribes]

@@gooseGoose-et1wl No & they never will be because like all large institutions these day's they are populated with activists that have extreme views. Jus look at the NHS for proof 1.4million employees, 40 pence from every tax pound also goes onto the NHS so it is not a lack of funds or a lack of employees ! They are just full of their own importance.

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

Give them all notice …… plenty of illegal immigrants needing very well paid jobs.

[@aion5837]

The police aren't allowed to strike.

[@robzombie5928]

Ticket offices were on borrowed time as soon as machines turned up. Even where the ticket office exists still you get encouraged not to use them.

[@jujutrini8412]

They don’t want you to use them because they have planned for ages to get rid of them and when less people use them due their influence they then turn around and say “See! Less people are using ticket offices! We don’t need to man them.” They are not stupid.

[@simonibberson4833]

Most reasonable socialist. 20% (?) pay-rises all round. He called him an idiot too. Absolute dinosaur politics.

[@brianbell3836]

Funny how the MPs get easy wage rises.

[@zuluwarrior1648]

Apparently Steve Hedley is a social like Damien willey .Now we have two of them.

[@stirlingmoss4621]

makes no sense

[@Celtictribes]

​@@johnkitching2248Can you socialists do anything else apart from insulting people & getting angry ?

[@brianbell3836]

What? In English, please.

[@robertanderson-yx8mo]

Traindrivers are grotesquely overpaid and out of touch

[@richardn2129]

whether they are or not. It's about ticket offices.

[@brianbell3836]

So are TV presenters.

[@MartinLloyd-uz1kz]

I Prefer Mick Lynch Over Steve Hedley

[@pmarmify]

automate the railways & then the train drivers will be out of a job

[@brianbell3836]

Is that what we want?

[@dazza9326]

Rail workers are well paid to start with.

[@brianbell3836]

Train drivers, yes. But what about the support staff?

[@brianbell3836]

Train drivers, yes. But what about the support staff?

[@grayukuk]

They will never talk about an individual's salary or grievance! 🤔 They might be talking about the train cleaners, who don't earn a great deal, but they all go on strike because they want extra money as well!! But they don't talk about the cleaners?

[@dftfire]

For cleaners who are not employed directly by the rail-stations, but work for third-party contractors (Mitte, Integral, PHS, etc), would most of them fall under the RMT?

[@stevejacobs9320]

Watched Carry on convenience this morning as a reminder of the pathetic antics and micro reasons unions needed in the 1970s to get members to walk out on strike. As a result much of the manufacturing industry left these shore and with it those same workers lost their jobs. Now the unions control the public sector and the same is happening, it is NOT FIT for purpose! And sooner than later action will be needed, public sector jobs replaced at speed with AI and automation!

[@brianbell3836]

And when the downtrodden masses start planting nail bombs in pubs, what do you say then?

[@helenn6061]

Can GB News interview someone to discuss why power companies have been allowed to increase their profits by 90% whilst workers are being mocked for striking for an inflationary pay increase and no loss of staff? These are issues that matter, not bashing working class Brits.

[@DjDeanB]

I agree to a certain extent. These big companies like british gas, etc, raking in record profits, and then saying it's to make up for previous losses, etc. In terms of wages, they have been on the decline for years, and it was always going to come to a head at some point. Having said this, increasing everyones wages without compromising will simply fuel inflation even more. I do feel that there's so many underpaid jobs, and skilled jobs are being devalued massively.....as they say, if you pay peanuts, you get monkey's. It's a tough one.

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

​@@DjDeanBWe've got monkeys in Parliament and we're certainly not paying peanuts.😊

[@brianbell3836]

Exactly, Helen.

[@thedarkdefender7780]

The male presenter is very weak. He got a verbal spanking and said nothing.

[@georgethompson453]

People are getting quite used to these strikes which is not go news for the rail industry. The union members on strike must have lost thousands so far and there’s very little prospect of extra money

[@christastic100]

steve Hedley regardless of his own political beliefs is absolutely right about the working class having to always take the hit on behalf of those who pull the strings. People in white collar jobs and sitting around big tables can sometimes feel above those who actually carry out the work as if their jobs are way above and in fact as if they are more valuable humans. The gap of wealth in the Uk is utterly enormous and that says it all .

[@parasinthephilippines]

Damn!

[@tanyaandelvis2698]

She looked embarrassed by the worst w anchor on Tv

[@icarus877]

So this guys answer seems to be not to pay the share holders. Brilliant - I am sure that will work wonders for short, medium and long term investment. Interesting to watch the guys lose his cool when confronted by an inconvenient truth and him wishing for the days of having a union full of socialist activists just backs it up. Trouble is Martin did not have to be particularly clever, just honest - that was enough to see this mans motivation.

[@icarus877]

@@johnkitching2248 Well I don't think that would work somehow. Thankfully sensible people do not want either extreme offered by the raving socialist or you. Or perhaps you are a raving socialist trying to be clever - clever socialist = oxymoron.

[@pauldavies7251]

​@@johnkitching2248how about the company starts running itself more efficiently for a start, Have trains turn up on time not cancel trains etc etc They want a pay rise for doing a rubbish job 🤦‍♂️

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

​@@pauldavies7251You want to see how the trains are run up North.The workers don't have to be on strike for the trains to be constantly cancelled.Appalling service.☹️

[@tonyfraser1749]

@@johnkitching2248 We had an example of socialism with the Ferguson shipyards in Scotland, The Mafia( the SNP) decided to nationalise the yards based on saving Scottish jobs, then they immediately put the contracts out to tender in three different EU country's and now Turkey are building the Ferries, so what happened to Scottish Jobs?? But the other major crux of tis matter was/is the taxpayer is now picking up the bill for the maintenance and running of those yards which includes you!!! And now because of the abject failure of nationalisation they are reportedly looking for buyers for the yards. The Mafia also nationalised Scot rail and lost/cut 700 services within the first week!! Even China and Russia have turned to caplitalism where profits are made, Blairs business deals with Emyr's Oligarchs and such even he realises where the money is!! So everybody's a good socialist until it comes to your money!!! Doesn't it??

[@Celtictribes]

​@@johnkitching2248Oh grow up ! Most rail workers are well paid.

[@Harrysound]

You can get to Poland for £32…think about that

[@tanyaandelvis2698]

Children’s television with Martin Melt down and Dame Ann on Gbeebies

[@TESTA-CC]

Go Steve

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

Mick Lynch started as an electrician and worked his way up.

[@middleman9183]

work?

[@jamesbond7107]

treavaudio, I wouldn't be concerned if it was only 10 ,but sadly there is thousands of those fanatics and GBnews feeds their may I say hatred.

[@TESTA-CC]

Keep striking until Economic illegal immigrants stop.

[@richardn2129]

I'm sorry but Steve is right. The presenter just was arguing for a race to the bottom, this group and that group got less so you should too. Please tell the wages of the presenter so we can compare.

[@brianbell3836]

Exactly.

[@thethirdman9493]

RMT are very strong and yes unfortunate Royal Mail workers got a terrible settlement

[@Celtictribes]

Maybe if the royal mail offered a better service they would get paid more.😊

[@dftfire]

Maybe the Royal Mail workers were offered a better one originally, but all those offer letters got lost in the post? 😂

[@Celtictribes]

@@dftfire 100%😄

[@andrewbush3744]

The railways are going to lose in the end on a Saturday I used to enjoy a day out on a train buses now I have finished with the railways then look at the USA no public transport cars

[@andrewoliver8930]

Fancy asking for a pay rise when inflation has increased by nearly 20%...

[@Celtictribes]

20% ? Get real !

[@vin65old]

They have known about the ticket offices being closed down for a long time due to the online ticket purchases getting used more, but just like everything else they waited until the right moment to cause most friction to get what they think is the right outcome. The fact of the matter these jobs will be lost no matter what they do because everything is becoming automated.

[@jujutrini8412]

Commuters want staff at the ticket office for their own safety and for assistance.

[@brianbell3836]

Which should be curtailed.

[@steveross8364]

These unions saw a chance with the massive cost of living inflation spike to demand huge percentage pay rises that would continue on after inflation drops again. They'll say it's to redress the crap raises given to them in the past (which they agreed to) and there might be some truth in that but it's the TAX PAYING public that will be paying these huge wage increases on top of the outrageous ticket prices and the other CoL expenses that, likewise, will not be coming down as inflation does. Socialists are just self-serving capitalists by another name. It's all about what they can get for themselves and screw the rest of us.

[@brianbell3836]

You talk tosh, Steve

[@steveross8364]

@@brianbell3836 Or maybe you don't have the intelligence to understand what's going on and just look at the world at the surface level.

[@collier8931]

Former General Secretary of the Rail Union, then a Very rich man on extremely high salary.

[@bluenose-qj2is]

It is political he didn't like up him unions leaders on good money dont care

[@brianbell3836]

They do care. YOU don't care.

[@a.hoctavius5848]

Martin looks like a trans woman

[@scaramanga2598]

🤣🤣🤣

[@colincornish2487]

so socilaism is bad says the uk person who, all their life, gets tax payer funded free at the point of need, healthcare, who also gets free, tax payer funded state education & a state funded pension! but, dont forget most of the uk rail companies are today owned by europeans! so we are really subsidising a load of foreigners, as the profits from the uk rail does not go to uk staff, but, intead goes to subsiding european cheap fares! also remember, not all socialism is bad! after all, our great NHS is a tax payer socialised uk health system, for all, free at the point of need! elsewhere, you can pay to talk to a GP, call a ambulance, or a longer than your medical insurer deems needed hospital stay, if your medical insurance card does not cover you! ie in france, ireland, holland etc. but here it does not matter, if you are employed or unemployed, rich or poor, one kid or ten kids, its all free at point of need! just take a look & see how much it cost to call out a ambulance in america, or have a baby in the usa,! at least no one in the uk ever goes bankrupt here due to healthcare bills, unlike in america!

[@silondon9010]

The RMT will not surrender unlike the CWU who sold out Royal Mail delivery staff 😢

[@helenn6061]

Royal mail had a huge body of casual staff in their own agency to step in and do most of the jobs.

[@thethirdman9493]

Royal mail new entrants on slightly above minimum wage now, the race 🏁 to the bottom has begun

[@Celtictribes]

​@@thethirdman9493Who cares ! Post men dont do much of anything.

[@thethirdman9493]

@@Celtictribes Apart from walking 🚶‍♂️ 3 marathons a week

[@dftfire]

​@@thethirdman9493If they don't like walking, I'm sure a drone could do the deliveries instead, in future. Amazon is already trialling them as we speak I mean, people who sign-up to be a postie would know a lot of walking would be involved, no? 🤔

[@_Msizi_]

She understood him, Steve has all valid pounts. Socialism all the way

[@jamesbond7107]

Steve Hedley one thing I do know is don't upset the right wing GBnews as all the right wing supporters will come out and slag you off

[@trevaudio]

All 10 of them ???😂

[@5578pedro]

Clever sod journo meets his match 😂

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

Fancy not knowing the Police can't strike.Not that clever.😊

[@dftfire]

​@@AlanFagan-y5lJust because you keep repeating something Martin never said, doesn't make it true 😂

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

Put myself through it again🙄Conceded,so he should have corrected Steve Hedley,who surprisingly actually went on to praise Anne Diamond.😊

[@professormcclaine5738]

Barristers 15%.

[@Celtictribes]

And your point is ? Armed forces only 5% ! Id sack all the rail workers & give 20% to all our brave men & women in the armed forces.

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

​@@CeltictribesThis is what happens when the right to strike is taken away.

[@Celtictribes]

@@AlanFagan-y5l What happens ? Rail travel is already dead, automation is coming & whether you like it or not the rail unions have a political agenda that's why this communist pratt lost his rag when it was pointed out to him.

[@bobrail733]

TYPICAL union boss gift of the gab all UNION LEADERS are the same don't have to actually do any manual work 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

[@brianbell3836]

When did that TV presenter last do a day's work?