Mick Lynch
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Marvanelli
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Short clip is here.
Was a brilliant listen.
He just keeps knocking them for 6.
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Was a brilliant listen.
He just keeps knocking them for 6.
Listen: Strike leader Mick Lynch loses his temper on BBC's Radio 4
Britain’s railways have ground to a halt for a second day running – but this time it’s strike action, rather than snow, that is causing the chaos. Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), has been out on the airwaves again justifying...
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Pak_Doo_Ik
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if these so called journalists took the same hard lined approach when questioning MPs as they do when questioning union leaders then the public would be much better informed. It makes me chuckle that they will allow MPs and ministers to give answers that mean nothing without a challenge but as soon as it’s somebody like Mick Lynch they go all Paxman
Ironops
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I listen to Today every morning from 7, Michelle is normally very good but recently both her and Justin Webb seem to have been asking more ridiculous and irrelevant questions in an effort to show neutrality when what they are actually doing is akin to govt propaganda.
Reminds me of the Brexit economics questions where there were 200 economists all saying it would be a disaster and 1 (patrick minford) saying it would be great but they gave them equal airtime
BBC impartiality my backside.
Reminds me of the Brexit economics questions where there were 200 economists all saying it would be a disaster and 1 (patrick minford) saying it would be great but they gave them equal airtime
BBC impartiality my backside.
Jedi boro
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That was a legal thing as it was an official referendum so election rules apply that’s why.
Not just the bbc but laws are there to prevent Fox News style broadcasts but they are becoming more strained but they do exist.
Here’s the entirety of Ofcom’s Rule 6.2 covering who gets shown:
“Due weight must be given to the coverage of parties and independent candidates during the election period. In determining the appropriate level of coverage to be given to parties and independent candidates, broadcasters must take into account evidence of past electoral support and/or current support. Broadcasters must also consider giving appropriate coverage to parties or independent candidates with significant views and perspectives.”
It seems to me that none of that applied to Farage then.
r00fie1
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Extract;
UK ministers blocked a possible deal to call off this month’s rail strikes by preventing the industry from offering unions higher pay deals and adding tough new conditions at the last minute. Employers had planned to offer a 10 per cent pay rise over two years to the RMT union, but were blocked by the government, which controls the industry’s finances, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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WindyNook
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Harper refusing to answer if he put driver only trains into the deal so the RMT had no option to reject the offer.
Apparently he refused to answer the question again today on Sky news.
It is clear they are using these public sector strikes as a political tool to appease their base and enable them to bring back the terms "Union barrons" and "Paymasters" to attack the Labour Party.
Good job their base is so small now that it won't make any difference.
Interesting, Ironops. I went online to check who is the current editor of Today.
Found an answer in Mail of all places, even they were surprised that the editor had been effectively bypassed, although still in place. After obvious complaints from government, who had quietly denied access to ministerial interviews.
Didn’t bookmark the article and when I went back to pull it to accompany this.
No longer accessible. So it appears that editorial decisions are made further up the chain.
And ministers are now available for interviews. ‘Trebles all round’
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ThePrisoner
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Webb is an absolute chunt. Oozing class privilege, snobbery form every privately educated pore. I can barely stomach listening to him.
Glover_elbow
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To me it looks like its a politcal move by the tories to talk tough and not negotiate and play the public vs unions card, playing labour as on the union side. Its a last desperate move by conservative government to regain voters
BaronSmoggie
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Its a weird policy to win voters by phuqing over the very people you want to vote for you.
LowMoorBoro
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Yeah definitely agree. I remember people saying when Corbyn was running he would take the country back to the 70s and give “power to the unions” and there’d be endless strikes.
It unfortunately works on some people.
Glover_elbow
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i can hear rishi now the conservatives are the only party who can get tough on the unions and get the country back on its feet. just forget the small fact the torries brought the country to its knees well before the unions
1finny
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I think Mick is in danger of alienating some people if he continues like this.
It was the same with the clip I saw on GMB this morning.
There really wasn’t anything wrong with the question, nor the earlier challenge about potentially losing support for the strike with their members following the most recent ballot.
He’s played a blinder so far - he’s entitled to a bad day.
newusername
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R4 just got 3 women on with stage 4 cancer & asked them how the strikes (rail/nursing) will affect them.
All 3 fully supportive, presenter kept cutting them short.
I assume their comments didn't fit the narrative they'd wanted to push.
All 3 fully supportive, presenter kept cutting them short.
I assume their comments didn't fit the narrative they'd wanted to push.
BaronSmoggie
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I'd like to hear that if its available somewhere.