Virgin Trains East Coast staff to stage 48-hour strike - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39586686

I'm not overly surprised. I gather staff morale at East Coast has been plummeting ever since Virgin took over.

one of the worst thing they ever done was privatise public transport. its public transport for a reason not a god given gift so senior management can screw everyone over.
the same with our energy and water supply ...

+1, and the threat of water charges are continually used over in negotiations with the government. We live on a fcuking small island apart from the moral implications.

its not very often i try to explain myself i don't normally feel the need to. so here goes ...

we need political change in this country and the first step to that change is to remove ourselves from the EU. the next step is to place under threat by vote the establishment that has become entrenched. the way forward for this change is to vote for something that the establishment is fearful of. its the only way to get certain services back and hold on to the services that are still barely intact. if you are going to fight at the very least fight to win ...

I certainly agree on the need for massive political change when it comes to the parties. Half of Labour want to be the Tories, and the Conservatives aren't even trying to hide just how corrupt they've gotten. Boundary and voting register changes? Gun sales tours with dictators? They even tried to further tax the self-employed, the very people they've sworn blind to stand beside.

There isn't a single party in England I could vote for if that were an option - that's just fcuking scary. They're all utterly incompetent and/or very bad pretenders AT BEST. But the Tories are downright evil to my mind.