I worked after I Left School at age of 15 & got a Job at our local Co-op in the footwear Department after Various Jobs I finally Retired at the age of64 Regards Carol Dodson
@cackyd60Ай бұрын
I enjoyed all the various Jobs I had
@clivehomer31452 ай бұрын
Please keep this up they robbed me of two years they changed the goal post in 2010 when l was 60 in 2012 and had to wait another two years was so mad they did not enough that it had changed in 2010 so please keep this up
@clivehomer31452 ай бұрын
You robbed me of 2 years l should have retired at 60 and got my pension in 2012 but had to wait another two years you changed the goal post in 2010 yes and l was not told till l enquired before l was to retire at 60
@jennymoss21222 ай бұрын
Thankyou for drawing attention to this , we need all the help we can get. I’m a WASPI , still working and paying taxes at 70.
@misfit20223 ай бұрын
I suppose the question is were these females given adequate notice?
@mickypful3 ай бұрын
8 years ago ! 8 YEARS AGO !!!! and still all that's happening is talk , talk , talk. What a useless shower of sh*t , the lot of them !
@jennylingard89893 ай бұрын
I am one of those ladies. My retirement age has gone up TWICE. and some of those Lady’s were on Married Women’s Stamp. I have had to multitask children work caring for others in the family And it has had a big effect on me own Health. And what with changes in working hours Also most of us Lady’s of this time DONT they ME. Don’t have private Pensions.
@Deedor3 ай бұрын
I'm a WASPI woman...I've spent my entire savings to make up the shortfall 🤬
@macsmiffy21973 ай бұрын
Me too!
@vinparaffin60824 ай бұрын
And this person did absolutely NOTHING to resolve the situation!!
@johnlawrence27574 ай бұрын
Previously when women retired at 60 did they get the same amount per week as men retiring at 65?
@jonathan9wood4 ай бұрын
Women against state pension inequality? They need to call them selves something more accurate!
@Facts_Are_Facts_Are_Facts4 ай бұрын
I have never heard anything more obscene in all my life. Men have had to work 5 years more for their pension than women for many many years, and now women want compensation for the fact that their wish for equality has came true and they don't like it all of a sudden, now the men who were penalised in the first place have to foot the bill for the inequality that men suffered. Unbelievable!
@Andrew-tx9jy4 ай бұрын
Equality sucks eh? Welcome to what men have had to put up with for years. If anything men should retire earlier, women live longer and men on average do the most physical jobs. The system has been biased in favour of women for years.
@murphy10946 ай бұрын
Still waiting c** t
@julielevinge266 Жыл бұрын
Transition was brought in for men,who got a bonus pension to cover for women now getting pension at same age, of course that’s only fair, but why were women not treated in the same way? I expected to retire at 65, that’s retirement age, but was only made aware this wouldn’t happen 7 years before my 65th birthday, giving me no way of making any allowances to cover for this??
@Andrew-tx9jy4 ай бұрын
Don't you work?
@WilliamLucas-mq6if Жыл бұрын
Tim Laughton is absolutely beautiful AF
@brutallyhonest9140 Жыл бұрын
Women Live 4 years longer on average then Men and pay less years in tax and NI factoring child birth. Why isn't a women's pension age 4 years older than men. Women should be age 71 on that basis as I can't get my pension until age 67 and will draw it on average for 4 less years
@a1c3hodge873 жыл бұрын
Funny how you are against it.. .and said you signed the amendment... but voted against the amendment? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tampon-tax-here-are-mps-who-voted-against-amendment-scrap-it-a6711606.html Should be sacked for lies like this. Hope you've learnt to be a better human in the last 5 years
@arthurwood81013 жыл бұрын
SHAME ON YOU - (let me be clear this is not a Re moaner venting on social media) - the Brexit Immigration Bill which the Govt is now in Second reading - will effectively applies a means test as of March 2022 (effectively 2021 Sept if you have kids) test to any British citizen with a foreign spouse wishing to return to the UK with his or her family . So if you wish to return to look after a sick relative, retire or look after a child - 45% of Brits could not hit the Minimum Income requirement. As you will now know from the testimony of a UK Select Committee your reference here to the Vienna convention is wrong the Vienna convention is applied to States not individuals - to compound your error - this Govt Bill is consciously taking away the very right you note here that you calimed you would uphold - whats even worse under the Settlement Agreement you will treat EU citizens in the UK better than your own British citizens - your own kith and kin - allowing the spouse of an EU resident in and out as they desire - show some integrity (And humanity) and ask the Government to accept the Lords amendment to the bill passed 312 -232 (incl Conservative peers who are pro Brexit) last week that addresses this issue. This Bill as is is inhumane, discriminates against your own British citizens - in fact it is an attack on the very people who are Global Britain in my case my Norwegian wife works for the UN could not once in pursue an International career even if she gets back in - or are people so dumb to think that there are no International Institutions which are Europe based - like the UN , British International teachers currently based in Europe etc...worse of all this is retroactive legislation
@sandimaddison28265 жыл бұрын
We have paid our NI , we want and need our pensions. We may live longer, but our bodies don't.
@janetmalcolm46975 жыл бұрын
Look at the politicians who decided this.....they are the evil clueless ones.. !! Sooo greedy just won't rectify this...deaf to politicians banging on....they're all ok...
@patriciamay37795 жыл бұрын
It's 21st Match, 2019. Still nothing has been done by the Conservative Government for Women born in the 1950's. I am now nearly 65 and no income. I have to wait till I'm 66 and 10 months to get my Pension. My Husband still Works and he keeps me and is not happy about it. I feel inferior, worthless, trapped. Thank you Conservative Government for taking my freedom away, my choices. MP's have recently got a 7% rise. They should hang their heads in shame.
@johntomlinson68493 ай бұрын
So you've been kept all your life and you want to go on being kept? And you feel worthless? Hmm....
@JQ32575 жыл бұрын
Good on you Tim, this deal would be worrible for anyone who voted for or against brexit
@cathhughes556 жыл бұрын
I'm 63 worked I won't my PENSION. MAY you have the GOVERNMENT SPENT OUR PENSION MONEY JUST TO KEEP YOUR JOB WHERE OUR PENSION I'M LIVING IN POVERTY YOU HAVE PUT ME IN POVERTY UNTIL I'M 66
@rachaelking65495 жыл бұрын
The government has robbed the women born in the 1950's.
@77777Joanna6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for fighting against this INJUSTICE ...We must all continue to challenge this INJUSTICE !
@suzyshepherd32266 жыл бұрын
thank you Tim for your continued support. Please never give up on us WASPI women we are relying on you to get justice for us.
@AustraliaAwake-gx2ds7 жыл бұрын
Good luck. I hope she wins the seat!
@igypop.7 жыл бұрын
EU may protect the rights, but UK being out of EU has no reason to oblige - mass deportations...??
@DrWhom7 жыл бұрын
Legal experts say that the Vienna convention will not apply. There are no acquired rights. So the scaremongering had it right, and you have been lying.
@scootjockey7 жыл бұрын
As an ex -pat white Yorkshire man liveing in the EU will i have to get a Visa ( wife German)?????
@Patrick-8577 жыл бұрын
You get taxed on the car you buy, to go to the shop, taxed on the food you buy at said shop that you then eat, and you get taxed on the toilet paper you use to wipe your ass after you shit it out. Then you get taxed on the water you use to flush down it down the toilet, and you also have to pay taxes to fund the road you drive on to buy the food, and the water and sewerage infrastructure you used to take a shit to shit it out. Eating and shitting are essential functions, as are periods. But somehow a tax on tampons is sexist. Right. Noted.
@shreddedreams7 жыл бұрын
my thoughts exactly. in fact I am glad this has gotten attention and I hope it goes through in 2018 so that that hopefully* OTHER essential items can be zero rated. How's about this, there are people with medical issues who 'need' items, special diets, and whatever but the nhs or government doesn't provide them or subsidize them, etc (with the exception of gluten free staples) but even then it's not healthy stuff. why should a woman get taxed zero when someone suffering daily (not monthly) has to pay 20% vat on a product they desperately need, and in some cases, to reduce medical emergencies requiring hospitalization. Tampon issues are mostly cosmetic in nature.
@Patrick-8577 жыл бұрын
TeslasLoveChild My original point is more absolute than that. I have taken the logic to the extreme, in order to point out that eating is something that all we have to do, otherwise we die, yet we pay tax on food. So why is a tampon tax and issue in that context. One cannot be picky about taxes because it creates all kinds of problems. Using feminist logic, one could argue against nearly every tax that average people pay. One could argue that the act of working is essential to life in the West, so why are low and middle income people taxed on their wages? These are the same people who are always for big government, high taxes, welfare programs, affirmative action, and government mandated "equality". For them to be arguing against a tax is intensly hypocritical, when one of the main things the right wing they hate so much wants is low taxes. Maybe feminists should start voting for the right? 😂😂😂😂
@shreddedreams7 жыл бұрын
Nasty Noises Inc I understand that. In fact, I used to have a more 'complete' logic myself. Going about 5 steps further but then I came to my senses. For the sake of my own mental health and practicality, I decided, the masses are never going to embrace the virtues of Logic. Humans in this day and age, whether by chemicals in the water, or just circumstance are too primitive. I estimate a good 100 years before we even reverse the regression that has been happening, and another 200 to reach relative enlightenment. Sir, we appear to be friends on G+ (or whatever this google crap is) but I do not think it's a suitable medium for us to converse. I propose some sort of alternative/social media. If that is acceptable to you, then consider a Pm to my youtube inbox with such details. -spawn of Tesla
@a1c3hodge873 жыл бұрын
You only pay taxes on 'luxury' foods, not essential foods. We all eat, piss and shit... BUT, people who have periods are usually women. Thats why. Because one sex is taxed and not the other. A tax on toilet paper, although bizarre, effects every single person, whereas a tax on tampons effects the population unequally. Thats the logic you and people who think like you are trying so hard not to grasp it seems.
@a1c3hodge873 жыл бұрын
@@shreddedreams imagine thinking tampons are cosmetic... embarrassing. If you really cared about these people who suffer on a regular basis, as you should, youd fight for them outside of using it as an argument against something else. Just because at the moment this was happening, people were fighting for tampon tax, doesn't mean people think other things don't deserve it either, they definitely do. So pressed about something that doesn't even affect you, maybe your own issues to deal with there, hope you get through them xo
@christinepalmer9357 жыл бұрын
please dont give up i have worked from 15 and will have to work til 66
@peterinlewes7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the very thorough update. However, no mention of the ongoing driver shortage which has conveniently been overshadowed (for GTR's benefit) by the RMT dispute. You may or may not be aware that of the 341 services cancelled in the summer, well over 100 were Driver Only trains and could not be blamed on Conductor 'sickness'. GTR need to be held to account for this 'economy with the truth'. It would be helpful if on GTR website that any cancellations were attributed to either driver or conductor shortage rather than the generic 'traincrew'.
@audreynaylor62547 жыл бұрын
Hate to say it, but he's wrong about prescriptions - I have had free prescriptions from age 60 two years ago.
@somersetangel7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much that you care about what has happened to us. My local MP James Heapey is not bothered and when I wrote to him I got the usual spin and when I wrote back to him and said how it is for women like me. Guess what no reply. You are a star Tim
@lesleylofthouse2767 жыл бұрын
somersetangel This mp is one of the few people who understands the impact thes3
@lesleylofthouse2767 жыл бұрын
somersetangel oops ! who unde4stands the impact this will have on 50 's ladies but more importantly seems to care !!!!
@awatchwoman7 жыл бұрын
The women and their employers paid IN, now we want it OUT!! State pension is NOT a benefit! We want a lump sum to be paid to us in settlement of lack of notice, the money is not YOURS!!! What are you doing about it NOW?
@derryhannam39778 жыл бұрын
Southern must have known that they were short of guards and drivers when they took over the franchise (from themselves effectively.) so they must also have known that they were dependent on staff goodwill to agree to overtime and rest day working to run the service. Why on earth would they choose that moment to introduce a new and controversial role for guards which they must also have known would lead to industrial action and the elimination of the goodwill which they knew they were dependent on? I find this kind of management bizarre to point of being surreal! Unless of course the whole thing is a carefully stage-managed 'break the unions' exercise - in which case I think we the public should be told - especially the people of Newhaven and Seaford who have been effectively removed from the network.
@TimboTravels8 жыл бұрын
What do we want? An MP with dignity.
@thebaretraveller8 жыл бұрын
The Vienna convention covers countries not individuals or businesses !
@p1nm0re8 жыл бұрын
A victory for xenophobia, bigotry, hatred and exclusion. Nigel Farage has already said that the £350m per week to be set aside for the NHS was a "mistake". Makes you ashamed to be British. I would drive off in a rage, but impending rise in fuel prices means I can't afford to do so.
@MK_Ultra.8 жыл бұрын
Do you really believe the views of a guy who think a youtube video is a podcast?
@p1nm0re8 жыл бұрын
The whole ethos behind the Conservative Party is NOT to subsidise anything and leave the market to decide everything, therefore the agricultural industry in the UK would be signing its own death warrant to vote leave and let the UK Conservative Party decide on this policy. The unskilled workers coming into the UK, are counterbalanced by the unskilled UK residents who are free to work throughout the EU countries. If we put a stop to this, the EU countries would be well within their rights to stop it on their side also. If the EU is so damaging to our finances how come we have the fifth richest economy in the world? If we are so well off is it really so wrong to help fellow EU member states who are struggling? It all seems a bit mean-spirited to me. Looking after number one and leaving the rest to flounder is a policy at nation level the Conservatives like to promote as well as at a personal level regarding the sick, the vulnerable the weak and the unemployed. The "unsustainable" levels of immigration are only so because of the austerity dogma of the present government, failing to invest in public services required to sustain an increasing population. The vast majority of immigrants come to the UK to work, making a valuable contribution to our society, paying taxes and increasing demand for goods and services, leading to more jobs being created to meet this demand. The EU is the largest economy in the world.
@kaszub12345678 жыл бұрын
UK ex-pats?Or did you mean British immigrants perhaps?
@hairyhomerify8 жыл бұрын
How can you criticise conductors off sick when currently gtr are not allowing them them to self certify they have to be signed off by a gp
@richardstedman2238 жыл бұрын
Tim, could you please tell me the dates the drivers have gone on strike? You won't be able to because they haven't! What you have said there is wrong. I won't call you a liar, but it is unacceptable to throw out 'facts' which are not even close to accurate. I look forward to your reply...
@p1nm0re8 жыл бұрын
Nationalizing the railways would ensure that passengers are prioritized over profits. This seems logical to me.
@rick_rs578 жыл бұрын
Government has a plan, already enacted once, which is to use their Directly Operated Railways body which stepped in to run the east coast main line in the event a franchisee fails to manage the franchise as required. This should be done ASAP for GTR with a "status quo" scenario which would not force through any changes for the time being. Knowing you are bad at your job is one thing; fixing the problems is another. I have no confidence in Southern's management and have myself been the victim of both short notice and what are now termed "planned" cancellations. For example the 21.47 from Victoria should run to Hastings and Bognor but the Bognor portion is now cancelled every day. Gatwick Express is part of the same franchise yet their staff refuse to allow Southern passengers onto their trains despite all the cancellations. They have been reminded that National Conditions of Carriage apply and they are required to accept tickets issued by the same franchisee (but under a different brand) over the same route yet their staff refuse and have threatened to call police when pressed. This is no way to run a franchise, GTR should be stripped of this at the first opportunity and their senior management barred from managing any future UK rail franchise.
@SpartasEdge8 жыл бұрын
Like a lot of people, i am sick and tired of all the patronising condescending scaremongering. I'm surprised that they haven't said that there would be an alien invasion or the world would explode if we left the EU, they've implied just about everything else! most of it about as ridiculous lol.
@JVSwailesBoudicca8 жыл бұрын
No, we won't be asked to leave France if there is an OUT vote, but we would no longer be able to afford to live here because the reciprocal arrangements ( such as medical costs) between EU & UK would no longer exist. My husband still works and pays full taxes to the UK Government but that would not count for one jot !
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I worked after I Left School at age of 15 & got a Job at our local Co-op in the footwear Department after Various Jobs I finally Retired at the age of64 Regards Carol Dodson
I enjoyed all the various Jobs I had
Please keep this up they robbed me of two years they changed the goal post in 2010 when l was 60 in 2012 and had to wait another two years was so mad they did not enough that it had changed in 2010 so please keep this up
You robbed me of 2 years l should have retired at 60 and got my pension in 2012 but had to wait another two years you changed the goal post in 2010 yes and l was not told till l enquired before l was to retire at 60
Thankyou for drawing attention to this , we need all the help we can get. I’m a WASPI , still working and paying taxes at 70.
I suppose the question is were these females given adequate notice?
8 years ago ! 8 YEARS AGO !!!! and still all that's happening is talk , talk , talk. What a useless shower of sh*t , the lot of them !
I am one of those ladies. My retirement age has gone up TWICE. and some of those Lady’s were on Married Women’s Stamp. I have had to multitask children work caring for others in the family And it has had a big effect on me own Health. And what with changes in working hours Also most of us Lady’s of this time DONT they ME. Don’t have private Pensions.
I'm a WASPI woman...I've spent my entire savings to make up the shortfall 🤬
Me too!
And this person did absolutely NOTHING to resolve the situation!!
Previously when women retired at 60 did they get the same amount per week as men retiring at 65?
Women against state pension inequality? They need to call them selves something more accurate!
I have never heard anything more obscene in all my life. Men have had to work 5 years more for their pension than women for many many years, and now women want compensation for the fact that their wish for equality has came true and they don't like it all of a sudden, now the men who were penalised in the first place have to foot the bill for the inequality that men suffered. Unbelievable!
Equality sucks eh? Welcome to what men have had to put up with for years. If anything men should retire earlier, women live longer and men on average do the most physical jobs. The system has been biased in favour of women for years.
Still waiting c** t
Transition was brought in for men,who got a bonus pension to cover for women now getting pension at same age, of course that’s only fair, but why were women not treated in the same way? I expected to retire at 65, that’s retirement age, but was only made aware this wouldn’t happen 7 years before my 65th birthday, giving me no way of making any allowances to cover for this??
Don't you work?
Tim Laughton is absolutely beautiful AF
Women Live 4 years longer on average then Men and pay less years in tax and NI factoring child birth. Why isn't a women's pension age 4 years older than men. Women should be age 71 on that basis as I can't get my pension until age 67 and will draw it on average for 4 less years
Funny how you are against it.. .and said you signed the amendment... but voted against the amendment? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tampon-tax-here-are-mps-who-voted-against-amendment-scrap-it-a6711606.html Should be sacked for lies like this. Hope you've learnt to be a better human in the last 5 years
SHAME ON YOU - (let me be clear this is not a Re moaner venting on social media) - the Brexit Immigration Bill which the Govt is now in Second reading - will effectively applies a means test as of March 2022 (effectively 2021 Sept if you have kids) test to any British citizen with a foreign spouse wishing to return to the UK with his or her family . So if you wish to return to look after a sick relative, retire or look after a child - 45% of Brits could not hit the Minimum Income requirement. As you will now know from the testimony of a UK Select Committee your reference here to the Vienna convention is wrong the Vienna convention is applied to States not individuals - to compound your error - this Govt Bill is consciously taking away the very right you note here that you calimed you would uphold - whats even worse under the Settlement Agreement you will treat EU citizens in the UK better than your own British citizens - your own kith and kin - allowing the spouse of an EU resident in and out as they desire - show some integrity (And humanity) and ask the Government to accept the Lords amendment to the bill passed 312 -232 (incl Conservative peers who are pro Brexit) last week that addresses this issue. This Bill as is is inhumane, discriminates against your own British citizens - in fact it is an attack on the very people who are Global Britain in my case my Norwegian wife works for the UN could not once in pursue an International career even if she gets back in - or are people so dumb to think that there are no International Institutions which are Europe based - like the UN , British International teachers currently based in Europe etc...worse of all this is retroactive legislation
We have paid our NI , we want and need our pensions. We may live longer, but our bodies don't.
Look at the politicians who decided this.....they are the evil clueless ones.. !! Sooo greedy just won't rectify this...deaf to politicians banging on....they're all ok...
It's 21st Match, 2019. Still nothing has been done by the Conservative Government for Women born in the 1950's. I am now nearly 65 and no income. I have to wait till I'm 66 and 10 months to get my Pension. My Husband still Works and he keeps me and is not happy about it. I feel inferior, worthless, trapped. Thank you Conservative Government for taking my freedom away, my choices. MP's have recently got a 7% rise. They should hang their heads in shame.
So you've been kept all your life and you want to go on being kept? And you feel worthless? Hmm....
Good on you Tim, this deal would be worrible for anyone who voted for or against brexit
I'm 63 worked I won't my PENSION. MAY you have the GOVERNMENT SPENT OUR PENSION MONEY JUST TO KEEP YOUR JOB WHERE OUR PENSION I'M LIVING IN POVERTY YOU HAVE PUT ME IN POVERTY UNTIL I'M 66
The government has robbed the women born in the 1950's.
Thank you very much for fighting against this INJUSTICE ...We must all continue to challenge this INJUSTICE !
thank you Tim for your continued support. Please never give up on us WASPI women we are relying on you to get justice for us.
Good luck. I hope she wins the seat!
EU may protect the rights, but UK being out of EU has no reason to oblige - mass deportations...??
Legal experts say that the Vienna convention will not apply. There are no acquired rights. So the scaremongering had it right, and you have been lying.
As an ex -pat white Yorkshire man liveing in the EU will i have to get a Visa ( wife German)?????
You get taxed on the car you buy, to go to the shop, taxed on the food you buy at said shop that you then eat, and you get taxed on the toilet paper you use to wipe your ass after you shit it out. Then you get taxed on the water you use to flush down it down the toilet, and you also have to pay taxes to fund the road you drive on to buy the food, and the water and sewerage infrastructure you used to take a shit to shit it out. Eating and shitting are essential functions, as are periods. But somehow a tax on tampons is sexist. Right. Noted.
my thoughts exactly. in fact I am glad this has gotten attention and I hope it goes through in 2018 so that that hopefully* OTHER essential items can be zero rated. How's about this, there are people with medical issues who 'need' items, special diets, and whatever but the nhs or government doesn't provide them or subsidize them, etc (with the exception of gluten free staples) but even then it's not healthy stuff. why should a woman get taxed zero when someone suffering daily (not monthly) has to pay 20% vat on a product they desperately need, and in some cases, to reduce medical emergencies requiring hospitalization. Tampon issues are mostly cosmetic in nature.
TeslasLoveChild My original point is more absolute than that. I have taken the logic to the extreme, in order to point out that eating is something that all we have to do, otherwise we die, yet we pay tax on food. So why is a tampon tax and issue in that context. One cannot be picky about taxes because it creates all kinds of problems. Using feminist logic, one could argue against nearly every tax that average people pay. One could argue that the act of working is essential to life in the West, so why are low and middle income people taxed on their wages? These are the same people who are always for big government, high taxes, welfare programs, affirmative action, and government mandated "equality". For them to be arguing against a tax is intensly hypocritical, when one of the main things the right wing they hate so much wants is low taxes. Maybe feminists should start voting for the right? 😂😂😂😂
Nasty Noises Inc I understand that. In fact, I used to have a more 'complete' logic myself. Going about 5 steps further but then I came to my senses. For the sake of my own mental health and practicality, I decided, the masses are never going to embrace the virtues of Logic. Humans in this day and age, whether by chemicals in the water, or just circumstance are too primitive. I estimate a good 100 years before we even reverse the regression that has been happening, and another 200 to reach relative enlightenment. Sir, we appear to be friends on G+ (or whatever this google crap is) but I do not think it's a suitable medium for us to converse. I propose some sort of alternative/social media. If that is acceptable to you, then consider a Pm to my youtube inbox with such details. -spawn of Tesla
You only pay taxes on 'luxury' foods, not essential foods. We all eat, piss and shit... BUT, people who have periods are usually women. Thats why. Because one sex is taxed and not the other. A tax on toilet paper, although bizarre, effects every single person, whereas a tax on tampons effects the population unequally. Thats the logic you and people who think like you are trying so hard not to grasp it seems.
@@shreddedreams imagine thinking tampons are cosmetic... embarrassing. If you really cared about these people who suffer on a regular basis, as you should, youd fight for them outside of using it as an argument against something else. Just because at the moment this was happening, people were fighting for tampon tax, doesn't mean people think other things don't deserve it either, they definitely do. So pressed about something that doesn't even affect you, maybe your own issues to deal with there, hope you get through them xo
please dont give up i have worked from 15 and will have to work til 66
Thank you for the very thorough update. However, no mention of the ongoing driver shortage which has conveniently been overshadowed (for GTR's benefit) by the RMT dispute. You may or may not be aware that of the 341 services cancelled in the summer, well over 100 were Driver Only trains and could not be blamed on Conductor 'sickness'. GTR need to be held to account for this 'economy with the truth'. It would be helpful if on GTR website that any cancellations were attributed to either driver or conductor shortage rather than the generic 'traincrew'.
Hate to say it, but he's wrong about prescriptions - I have had free prescriptions from age 60 two years ago.
Thank you so much that you care about what has happened to us. My local MP James Heapey is not bothered and when I wrote to him I got the usual spin and when I wrote back to him and said how it is for women like me. Guess what no reply. You are a star Tim
somersetangel This mp is one of the few people who understands the impact thes3
somersetangel oops ! who unde4stands the impact this will have on 50 's ladies but more importantly seems to care !!!!
The women and their employers paid IN, now we want it OUT!! State pension is NOT a benefit! We want a lump sum to be paid to us in settlement of lack of notice, the money is not YOURS!!! What are you doing about it NOW?
Southern must have known that they were short of guards and drivers when they took over the franchise (from themselves effectively.) so they must also have known that they were dependent on staff goodwill to agree to overtime and rest day working to run the service. Why on earth would they choose that moment to introduce a new and controversial role for guards which they must also have known would lead to industrial action and the elimination of the goodwill which they knew they were dependent on? I find this kind of management bizarre to point of being surreal! Unless of course the whole thing is a carefully stage-managed 'break the unions' exercise - in which case I think we the public should be told - especially the people of Newhaven and Seaford who have been effectively removed from the network.
What do we want? An MP with dignity.
The Vienna convention covers countries not individuals or businesses !
A victory for xenophobia, bigotry, hatred and exclusion. Nigel Farage has already said that the £350m per week to be set aside for the NHS was a "mistake". Makes you ashamed to be British. I would drive off in a rage, but impending rise in fuel prices means I can't afford to do so.
Do you really believe the views of a guy who think a youtube video is a podcast?
The whole ethos behind the Conservative Party is NOT to subsidise anything and leave the market to decide everything, therefore the agricultural industry in the UK would be signing its own death warrant to vote leave and let the UK Conservative Party decide on this policy. The unskilled workers coming into the UK, are counterbalanced by the unskilled UK residents who are free to work throughout the EU countries. If we put a stop to this, the EU countries would be well within their rights to stop it on their side also. If the EU is so damaging to our finances how come we have the fifth richest economy in the world? If we are so well off is it really so wrong to help fellow EU member states who are struggling? It all seems a bit mean-spirited to me. Looking after number one and leaving the rest to flounder is a policy at nation level the Conservatives like to promote as well as at a personal level regarding the sick, the vulnerable the weak and the unemployed. The "unsustainable" levels of immigration are only so because of the austerity dogma of the present government, failing to invest in public services required to sustain an increasing population. The vast majority of immigrants come to the UK to work, making a valuable contribution to our society, paying taxes and increasing demand for goods and services, leading to more jobs being created to meet this demand. The EU is the largest economy in the world.
UK ex-pats?Or did you mean British immigrants perhaps?
How can you criticise conductors off sick when currently gtr are not allowing them them to self certify they have to be signed off by a gp
Tim, could you please tell me the dates the drivers have gone on strike? You won't be able to because they haven't! What you have said there is wrong. I won't call you a liar, but it is unacceptable to throw out 'facts' which are not even close to accurate. I look forward to your reply...
Nationalizing the railways would ensure that passengers are prioritized over profits. This seems logical to me.
Government has a plan, already enacted once, which is to use their Directly Operated Railways body which stepped in to run the east coast main line in the event a franchisee fails to manage the franchise as required. This should be done ASAP for GTR with a "status quo" scenario which would not force through any changes for the time being. Knowing you are bad at your job is one thing; fixing the problems is another. I have no confidence in Southern's management and have myself been the victim of both short notice and what are now termed "planned" cancellations. For example the 21.47 from Victoria should run to Hastings and Bognor but the Bognor portion is now cancelled every day. Gatwick Express is part of the same franchise yet their staff refuse to allow Southern passengers onto their trains despite all the cancellations. They have been reminded that National Conditions of Carriage apply and they are required to accept tickets issued by the same franchisee (but under a different brand) over the same route yet their staff refuse and have threatened to call police when pressed. This is no way to run a franchise, GTR should be stripped of this at the first opportunity and their senior management barred from managing any future UK rail franchise.
Like a lot of people, i am sick and tired of all the patronising condescending scaremongering. I'm surprised that they haven't said that there would be an alien invasion or the world would explode if we left the EU, they've implied just about everything else! most of it about as ridiculous lol.
No, we won't be asked to leave France if there is an OUT vote, but we would no longer be able to afford to live here because the reciprocal arrangements ( such as medical costs) between EU & UK would no longer exist. My husband still works and pays full taxes to the UK Government but that would not count for one jot !