Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "RMT's Mick Lynch calls junior minister a liar 15 times on Newsnight" video.

Yep. Notice that he never denies that he's lying.
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That's like asking for something for nothing since inflation reduces the value of pay, and just to get back the value of pay in real terms, through an inflation increase, the Tories are expecting more work. That's effectively a cut.
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@apezzero Contributions to GDP are probably not relevant because transport including railways are not a profitable enterprise and that's true the world over. Public transport is subsidised by governments to a greater or lesser degree. The Tories privatisation of the railways meant that public subsidies had to increase to create a 'profit' element for shareholders but now the government has control of the railways again because running them as a private enterprise didn't work during Covid when passenger traffic fell away. In another video, Lynch says that every time some proposal was discussed the employer's side had to go off and check with the government and that the government had given the employers side a mandate to comply with. It's deceitful to pretend that this is just a negotiation between the employers and the unions. The government as the string pullers should also be at the negotiating table.
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This comes from people who have truth challenges.
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@TheMogregory I think it might.
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The Tory's final statement at the end was 'that you can't have wage increases' unless they are backed by improvements in productivity, but this is about increases for wages to maintain their value, in real terms, in light of inflation. They are not increases in real terms. Without them it's effectively a real terms cut in the value of wages.
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