Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Union Leader Mashes British Media Into A Bowl Of Porridge" video.

  1. To be fair to Keir Starmer, the Tories and their media supporters have over the years successfully divided the working class against each other. Starmer is trying to appear like the person who wants a negotiated solution so as not to alienate other sections of the working class and the middle class. However he knows, and the Union knows that the people who want to prolong this strike are the government, and they won't negotiate because they want to break the RMT union. They have a cuts agenda for the railways including cuts in safety areas such as maintenance. The government is controlling the negotiations but not negotiating directly and pretending it's not down to them but down to the rail companies who are the ones negotiating directly with the unions, when the government allows them to, but it doesn't allow them to compromise in order to settle the dispute. Starmer does attack the government for their lack of willingness to negotiate to end the strike. The reason the government can control the rail companies is that the government took over control of the railways during Covid times, because it was not profitable for the rail companies to continue and they would have walked away from their contracts. Now the government collects all the rail revenue and pays the companies flat fees for managing the railways. Mick Lynch says the companies are willing to settle with him to end the strike but the government has told them not to. You can see in media interviews that whenever the Union reps (including Mick's Assistant) try to explain the detail, the interviewers often talk over them to try and block their message.
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  2. Piers Morgan is working for Rupert Murdoch and his show on Talk TV in the UK is also featured on Sky Australia and Fox news in the US. All very right wing and anti-union.
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