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The problem is reporting on emotial reaction is facile journalism. A typcial report often contains: "The Tory Government are about to cut their budget and you could lose your job, how do you feel about that?" "I'm really angry about it" "So you don't think the Government should cut the...

I never said that public sector workers were lazy, or they were scroungers. Many do a fine and admirable job. I simply say that as is human nature, they are naturally self interested in their own prosperity and job security in the same way that private sector employees are. Rightly or wrongly...

Given the warnings that were made to them at the time, I can't give that explanation credibility, but fair enough, it's an alternative explanation... Personally I think that Labour were a devastatingly good and intelligent electoral force, neutering the Conservatives and building a power base...

Seems pretty clear to me that you didn't initially blame Labour? If there is any other rational, credible explanation of why we pretty much stood alone in allowing the first influx of immigration from Eastern Europe than to control inflation I'm all ears, as surely a credible alternative thesis...

Is that now a tacit admission that the real wages of Bus Drivers can be attributed to Labour, as you directly refuted the point originally? As for allowed or encouraged, it probably will never be able to be demonstrably proved that Labour wanted this to happen. But to think that to be one of...

I'm sure you meant it tongue in cheek but you can do pretty much anything provided it is to prevent loss of life or serious injury and not get critisised. But it doesn't take a bit of paper to know if you jam something in between the moving blades they ain't going to move anywhere!!

Rather than having a staged immigration policy for Eastern European countries, we were one of the few countries to allow Polish citizens entry straight away. If it would have been in conjunction with other countries, the effect would not have been as profound. Even Ed Milliband and Ed Balls have...

True, but there are good reasons for that. The first one is that, to put it bluntly, it's not quite as skilled a job. The failure rate for converting someone from a car licence to a PSV licence is low. The amount of people who fail at any one stage of a railway reruitment and training is quite...

Whilst superficially many people may think the railway offers good wages, the same people aren't always prepared or understanding of the arduous nature of the shifts, and of having serious restictions placed on your social and family life, not only through being at work when most people are...

I'm alarmed if you have been quoted 10% for credit card processing. Even the smallest business can usually get a 5% processing fee. If not, PayPal is another option, please somebody correct me, but isn't the fees for PayPal around 3-4% for the occasional user? Obviously only suitable for online...

I can't open the pictures (problem at my end) but I think I know the ones you mean. Isn't it due to them burning out and needing replacing too often? I've seen them at a few stations in this country before being replaced.

I agree many small business probably think like that, but it's a mistake. Accepting card payments is good for nearly all businesses for several reasons - 1) Handling cash is not free, it takes time for a paid member of staff to count, sort, and take to the bank 2) It increases custom from people...

I agree. I have a cashback credit card and not only do you get a small amount of money back you have all the usual protection of a credit card, ie fraud protection and the ability to dispute transaction and claim refunds etc.

No they are daily (except Sundays usually). The effect doesn't even last a day really.

Well, that's only because they are diagrammed that way, they don't have to be. There is only one advertised through service from Morecambe to Barrow and no return service. I know what you mean though, a unit turns up on a Barrow-Lancaster and then works the Morecambe shuttle. At the same time...

I think people will voluntarily go cashless over the course of the next generation, although I doubt cash will ever completely disappear. Of course it all depends on getting the right technology in place in conjunction with the banks, too many chip and pin machines are horrendously slow. However...

You mean like a PSB at the moment? Sorry, they don't fit in with the Network Rail 'vision'. IECCs are actually worse for overall regulation because ARS does most of the work, and signallers sit at individual workstations and do not function in the same way as a PSB, where everyone mucks in...

IECCs do not have staff canteens. I have heard of one having a small gym. In terms of the "back-up" workstations, Network Rail have been unable to explain to staff how this would work, since to be able to control another area, you have to have be competant and familiar with it. Although it is...

I would agree that is makes financial and operational sense to close one man signal boxes but there is a law of diminishing returns when it comes to placing more and more panels/workstation into a single building. Remember, these new ROCs are not just gloried IECCs, they are on a scale not seen...

As said, most points have heaters which in theory should not be overwhelmed until a vast amount of snow (the like of which not normally seen in England, but possible in Scotland perhaps) it's nearly always when the point heaters have failed that detection can't be obtained. De-icing them is a...