If a Lib/Lab coalition is announced today, I may just sit back and chuckle heartily from a safe distance at your fits of apopletic rage.
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Cabin crew at BA are gonna strike again from 18 May
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on my life simster, i hope it is, there is so much nasty medicine to be dished out whoever gets in, i'd prefer the lab/lib dems to do it, the coalition to fall apart after a year and the tories to get back in with a thumping majority.If a Lib/Lab coalition is announced today, I may just sit back and chuckle heartily from a safe distance at your fits of apopletic rage.
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If a Lib/Lab coalition is announced today, I may just sit back and chuckle heartily from a safe distance at your fits of apopletic rage.
If there's a LibDem/Labour Coalition then we'll be back at the Polls within 6 months.
Possibly. To be honest, my main concern is that the voting system is reformed as soon as possible, because it is currently desperately unfair.
I'd love it if we could do away with tactical voting, or being held to randsom by intransigent unions or a bullying press, and it's about time minority groups actually had their views represented in Parliament. If the price of that is a more frequent coalition government, then it's a price worth paying, IMO.
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Why werent labour supporters like yourself ( and you were ) concerned when this 'desperately unfair ' system was delivering labour majorities? the stench of hypocrisy hangs heavy over all the ex labour voters now clamouring for this 'unfair' system to be modernised, we just dont have the psyche for consensus politics in this country for PR to work, we still have people fighting class battles from 50 years ago ffs.
Love it that you have to put "and you were" in brackets. No I wasn't. I just prefer most of their policies to Tory policies, and I still do. I don't have much time for the top brass in Labour these days though. Oh and I've voted LibDem in *every* election I've ever voted in, except 1997.
And I've always supported PR, but of course it's only become relevant now that we're in a hung parliament, because the Labour party and Conservatives would never push it through as it is basically turkeys voting for Christmas.
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Really ? why the hyterical screeching to 'get milliband in now' when brown was going through one of his periodic disastrous patches? do i really have to trawl through the archives to prove it ? I have never heard you mention supporting the lib dems before this election
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Er, back to the original point of this thread, I am now going to be stuck in Sweatyland whenI get back from my rig on the 18th and will not be a happy bunny with BA - in fact it will be the last straw for me and I will not use them again. I probably will not be alone in this.
Still the strikers will have defended their 'rights' all the way to the dole queue so well done to them. I am sure that even in a recession other airlines will by happy to take BA's flight slots over when they go belly up.
Still the strikers will have defended their 'rights' all the way to the dole queue so well done to them. I am sure that even in a recession other airlines will by happy to take BA's flight slots over when they go belly up.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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Er, back to the original point of this thread, I am now going to be stuck in Sweatyland whenI get back from my rig on the 18th and will not be a happy bunny with BA - in fact it will be the last straw for me and I will not use them again. I probably will not be alone in this.
Still the strikers will have defended their 'rights' all the way to the dole queue so well done to them. I am sure that even in a recession other airlines will by happy to take BA's flight slots over when they go belly up.
I think you are one of many who will try and book ABBA in the future.
I cannot see how this is going to be resolved.
Walsh says he will not restate the Travel Perks to those who went on strike. (Potential Strikers were told these would be taken away priorto any Industrial Action)
Unite says that these must be restored before meaningful talks take place.
They are MILES apart.
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Let's not tarnish all BA staff with the same brush....
all other departments have had redundancies made, pay freezes and cuts etc.
Gatwick and City airport cabin crew are not striking
Heathrow cabin crew are the only ones striking
BA did not pay for T5 on their own, the majority was paid for by BAA.
From a friend who used to work high up at Gatwick he said the opening fiasco at T5 was down to BAA and their incompetence. Basically they tested each system independantly and then forgot to switch them from test mode to normal mode so they wouldn't work together and hence hte baggage fiasco....not BA's fault as they don't actually run the terminal
all other departments have had redundancies made, pay freezes and cuts etc.
Gatwick and City airport cabin crew are not striking
Heathrow cabin crew are the only ones striking
BA did not pay for T5 on their own, the majority was paid for by BAA.
From a friend who used to work high up at Gatwick he said the opening fiasco at T5 was down to BAA and their incompetence. Basically they tested each system independantly and then forgot to switch them from test mode to normal mode so they wouldn't work together and hence hte baggage fiasco....not BA's fault as they don't actually run the terminal