john.bartley

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• Sean Eric Fagan commented on A cultural thought experiment
  Barry, your opinions about other posters are not particularly relevant to the discussions. Please consider how you'd feel how someone might feel if responding the same way to you....
• Moderator Alan commented on A cultural thought experiment
  Indeed, the system is not nationalised. The track may be (in all but name), but it's the private sector companies that are running the trains. And even when they walk away, the relevant franchise is only run publicly until it can be farmed out again. The bureaucratic overheads it brings are awful. Cambridge station is currently being rebuilt to be able to take 12-coach trains, which means that the capacity on the KX and Liverpool Street lines is increased 50%. But this has required the train operators First Capital Connect (KX) and National Express (LS) to identify that there is...
• Greg. Tingey commented on A cultural thought experiment
  For Barry Not offended in the least. I was referring to an earlier thread re. the essentially-fascist nature of the current govenment holding the mandate of Heaven in the Central Kingdom. Talking of wealth-distributions, It looks as no-one else has (yet) noticed/commented on the way in which most of us are having their incomes squeezed. Meanwhile if you are a director of an FTSE "top-100" company, you are doing very nicely, and bugger all the plebs (us) with a 49% pay rise. See Here and Listening to the spurious exucses being spouted by one such greedy bastard on this morning's...
• Greg. Tingey commented on A cultural thought experiment
  Oh bugger, let's try those two links again - obviously an HTML mis-type by YHS..... From the DT and also From the Beeb About ripping off us plebs.......
• Greg. Tingey commented on A cultural thought experiment
  It's getting worse. Seen the amazing, insane, and probably treasonous behaviour of the boss of QUANTAS? He got a better tha 60% pay rise, the workers got a small amaount (less than inflation). The workers who are "in dispute" AGREED not to go on strike this week or next (Commonwealth PM's conference, Melbourne Cup weekend, the works...) And the bastard deliberately calls a lock-out, strands the foreign delegations, and buggers up everyone's holiday. Obviously hoping for an ultra-right backlash against "the unions". Look it up on the Beeb news....