(15 Oct 2022, 7:14 pm)Starscream wrote The next generation...

https://www.route-one.net/people/morebus...amways-19/

Good luck trying to persuade them that they should show solidarity with striking drivers. She is perhaps already well prepared for a future where home ownership is out of her reach, and will hopefully be unconvinced by any claims that changing that basic reality of our times starts with trying to screw over her
customers.

It starts at the ballot box, but it seems unlikely Kier Starmer has what it takes to swing the voters that matter, who of course don't live in her locality or ours.

And of course, she's not really got the luxury of simply rocking up at another company's depot if a strike at her depot goes badly, because as it turned out, unsurprisingly in these times, neither a local employee buyout nor a multinational foreign state owned conglomerate can make a small ex municipal survive rapidly changing market conditions.

Conditions Kier Starmer cannot change, unless he plans to further mortgage away this girls future in buying the bus companies with yet more borrowing.

What GNE did works, focusing on customers, a success story even in these times (a very attractive proposition according to their new owners) but unions don't like to be reminded of enterprising workers becoming evil capitalist pigs, itself a story a little too close to home in Busway's territory. It might give the workers who keep them in tea and biscuits ideas above their assigned station.

It's GA or bust for her. A situation 19 year olds in Sunderland could soon also be faced with, thanks to the legacy of self interest couched as collectivism.

Thatcher had it right. Thatcher was on this girl's parents side, since it's a fair bet that her parents buying their council house is the reason this girl even has access to a car at her age, so she can earn her keep and pay her taxes by transporting people with less than her. A car perhaps even made in Sunderland. What a thought.