Tag: Shame

Cross Country train

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Privatisation

ruination of our trains

profiteers clean up

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by Scooj

* The trains in England are a disgrace and an embarrassment. Visitors from overseas must be utterly bewildered by how bad our train services are.

Underfunded, with profits being creamed off by shareholders.

Why on earth do we put up with it? People will pay hugely inflated prices only to stand on a train, sometimes for several hours. Oversubscription is the norm, which must have implications for health and safety of passengers.

Surely if every passenger had to book a seat, sales would be curtailed when the train was full. I believe that is the system in America.

Delays, cancellations and reduced carriages are the norm. Often the electronic booking systems are broken. Encountering a ticket inspector/guard is a rarity.

Even if you get a seat, trains are grubby and cramped. Food and refreshment services patchy and expensive. The whole thing makes for deeply unpleasant experiences. It wasn’t always like this, and people used to mock British Rail!

Nationalise and subsidise the trains or set higher standards/penalties for operators.

The Privatisation obsession of Thatcherite Britain has failed its people but made a privileged few unimaginably wealthy. Disgusting.

Open letter to the world

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Please do not mistake

the actions of government

as the people’s will

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by Scooj

As our Government edges towards fascism, the canary in the mine has died, but have we noticed it yet? Well I have, and many others too. Changing times ahead.

Liar

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With faux contrition

PM Johnson fools no one

only cronies fawn

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by Scooj

Unwelcome

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Shame of a nation

where process trumps compassion

you are not welcome

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by Scooj

* I am utterly disgusted by and ashamed of our government and the disgraceful way they have conducted themselves with the visa system for Ukrainian refugees. As a UK citizen I feel tarnished with their appalling indifference and lack of urgency for a European crisis. They do not speak for me or reflect my views.

Brexit was meant to free us from bureaucratic processes and allow us to be fleet of foot. Hah! Just like everything else to do with Brexit, it is a myth. The conservatives are playing to the nationalist sentiment in their party and voters, who don’t want any kind of immigration. It is disgusting. The sooner we have a more compassionate and honest government the better.

I am so ashamed to be British.

House of cards

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Shallow foundations

sunlit uplands, a facade

lies will bring them down

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by Scooj

Car crash

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Johnson’s blatherings

national embarrassment

reaches a new high

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by Scooj

European Super League

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The damage is done

a lifetime of supporting

tarnished by their greed

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by Scooj

GOP shame

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In his final days

the crybaby President

calls in his henchmen

bigots, white-supremicists

far right factions are mustered

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by Scooj

Goodbye EU

 

Collaborative

relationship replaced with

adversorial.

 

by Scooj

Never give up

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MV 2.5

we are living a nightmare

May clutching at straws

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by Scooj

  • MV 2.5 = meaningful vote 2.5. Unbelievable sleight of hand by Theresa May to try and force her deal through by splitting it into two thus avoiding rejection by the Speaker. As if bribing her party, promising to quit if they supported her wasn’t bad enough. She and the Conservative party have no shame.