How do we managed to live in such a duel world. Watching a program discussing various bits of news brought up the fact that the rail strike had been called off. These shows are packed with minor celebs to give us their opinion on matters of importance. Today we listened how the workers were threatening to strike (how dare they inconvenience us) was for an extra £500 bonus payment at the end of the year.
That converts to £10 per week or £2 per day. The incredulous celebrities, each earning probably four times that amount to appear on the one hour show, didn't seem to understand the irony but that is how we educate our populous these days with innuendo from those newly out of nappies and who have little or no experience of real life.
They followed their scathing assessment of the wrongs which "unionism" can inflict on society (as if the members who are being represented are not part of society) with a diatribe on the increase which the rail companies had imposed on the travelling public in higher fares.
It didn't seem to impinge on their woolly brains that perhaps the people who really get them from A to B, the drivers and the attendant workers, asking for this "outrageous" £2 a day (25p an hour) are last in the queue to benefit from any revenue garnered from a ticket price increase, rather the fare increase flow into the pockets of the investors of the rail companies and the executive who fund their own annual bonus without recourse to any third party, other than a minute in the boardroom minutes.
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