Comments by "Stephen Jon" (@stephenjon3502) on "Mick Lynch dispels government misinformation on Christmas strikes" video.

Unfortunately, there's still a large number of the public that can't get their heads around foreigners coming here and doing jobs that the Brits can't or won't do - hence now our already stretched economy has been hit by another 40% Brexit dividend. Then as you can see in lots of comments a large number of people that think because they don't have a decent union or paypacket at the end of the month that we should all be dragged to the bottom!
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@muckle8 That's funny Clark as I remember the UK government chartering 4 planes back out to Romania the year after we left to bring people back over to pick fruit and veg that started to go rotten because they couldn't get Dave n Wayne out of bed at 4am. I also remember the same government offering lorry driver jobs on special visas last year as they couldn't get enough brits to either drive the trucks or get through the class2 courses. And I remember last year on my usual August holiday to the lakes ( being a patriot and staying in the UK) and most of the pubs and restaurants closing at 8pm due to staff shortages ( No Inglish)!or lack of deliveries ( yea, i know those bloody lorry drivers again eh ) And not forgetting Bojo out in India asking for I.T. workers to come over in return for another crappy trade deal. You are right in one way though, Some brits are more than capable , take those that worked for De laRue up north that printed our burgundy EU passports. The company had done it so well for 189 years that they gave the contract to a French/dutch company that then subbed it out to the Poles. At least the 260 staff that lost their jobs have got more time over Christmas to spend with their families. ( providing their trains not cancelled ) Happy 🦄 hunting Clark.
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A fully loaded tube train ( s stock ) can hold over 1300 passengers with a driver only. Look thru all the comments by the deluded that think they should be fully automatic and Driverless. The mind boggles.
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@RedOakCrow Yes, I agree with some of your points but I'm sorry you will never get £20 an hour to pick fruit unless you want it passed down to the consumer. What about the NHS? 48,000 EU staff left after the Referendum and now we have a national crisis on our hands but don't worry as it will all be gone within the next 5 years if the Tories get back in. As for the reform gang, no one can tell me who's paying for their private healthcare vouchers or how they can give everyone a 20k tax allowance. At present we have 110,000 vacancies within the NHS and currently we have 21% of the staff from abroad. What happens when they decide they don't want to live in a country that is trying to push them away?
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@marvintpandroid2213 Yes, I'm aware of that Marvin. My point was talking about driver only which the tube went over years ago. Fully understand the distance of stations on the main line but there are lots of unstaffed stations on the Underground system too. That was bojos doing when London decided it was a good idea to let him play at mayor. First job - shut 800 booking offices.
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@dannygmtg Definitely. I drove a train for 33 years and was glad to get off at the end, another few years would have killed me off. Needs complete re-nationalising and the fares heavily subsidised to allow everyone cheap travel just like in Europe.
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@craigrothwell6144 Yes Craig. We now have less rights to send them back to the first safe country than we did in the EU. Didn't see that one on the side of any bus my friend did you?
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@muckle8 How far back do you want to go? Do you think that Gt Britain would be in any foreign country if there wasn't something to plunder. No point in colonising 20% of the globe then moaning when people want to come back to the motherland!
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@trulyexorcise2918 Yes it's really Putins fault there's no Dr's and Nurses in the UK.
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@SuperBobbster Not so Bobb. Traditionally those picking jobs would have been done by students or others wanting to earn a bit of cash for travelling. My son did exactly that one year and now works tables to top up his Uni money. Same went for the EU workers wanting to travel and visit the UK and with some of them they used it as a stepping stone to get a better job, with that they pay taxes and N.I. into the UK and if you bother to check the facts and not get your info from the usual suspects then the out of the original 3.8 million EU intake it was 800k pre Brexit immigrants that ended up claiming some sort of benefit. Of course you might protest on that one and yes if the Tories had played the rules correctly they would and should have been sent back, but of course we know they weren't. Either way the remaining 3 million were paying into the UKs coffers to the tune of FOUR times what their country people were taking out so essentially they were paying for them and then some. This takes me to your point of sending money ( Let's say wages ) back to their birth country. Sorry Bob but that's their business not yours or mine. If I wanted to send some money to family who live elsewhere what's that got to do with anyone? It's my money and I will do what I want with it. As for the building trade 90% of my friends work in various trades. None of them are skint, in fact 2 of them earn so much money they spend the winter months in the sunshine to ' lose ' a fair bit of cash in hand money. Another of them has 4 holidays a year with 2 in the Caribbean. One of my mates was working PAT testing on the Spurs ground and earning 5k a week. So with that in mind who would you say is more patriotic to the UK? The brit builder who doesn't claim everything and spends a lot of his money abroad or the immigrant that pays taxes and N.I. and spends his time in the UK?? Where you might have the hump is with the usual crowd saying they are undercutting local builders. Where I live the local builders I've used have all taken the piss in some way - turning up late, leaving early, taking far too long to do a job or in my last case where I watched a landscaper snap 3 porcelain tiles that cost me £48 each because he was too tight to buy the correct blade for his saw and grinder. I ended up telling him to fk off and ended up giving the rest of the job to a Polish builder who was top notch and didn't keep trying to change the price he gave me. As for other roles like bar work, restaurants, coffee shops etc the money isn't good enough so the locals would rather stay on UC than do some work. That's no fault of any foreigner but the current government Bobb.
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@MrbrownWMD In Agreement Jack, although that's not the fault of any foreigner which CC is alluding to. Before Brexit you could have done what my friends son did and go and train in Europe, in his case he went to Holland and trained for free in return for working for the company that sponsored him. Can't do that anymore thanks to myopia Jack.
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@muckle8 So what about the foreigners that work in the NHS? What do you suggest you do with the 21% of them?
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@muckle8 That's down to mismanagement by the government CC. Like it or not this country has always relied on immigration of some sort. The trouble is that because people like yourself are easily duped then that's how the wealthy got Brexit pushed through. Look at us now, we have less rights to send anyone back to the first safe country as we are no longer in the EU. Unfortunately you probably believed that we were going to gain back control and sovereignty which we always had and never lost in the first place.
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@muckle8 Why are they finished Clark?
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