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Have just received a text from Eddie Lambert Unite Hack driver London stating

" there will be a national taxi strike for one hour on the 6 jan 08 between 8am and 9am over the price of fuel"

First i have heard of it!

Anyone got any views on it ?

Unite is the new union of T&G and Amicus combined!

Me id like to see the oil companies nationalised without compensation! probably too revolutionary for you lot!!!!!!!!

ORGANISE AGITATE EDUCATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this to do with the boss’s mob that organised the fuel strikes to undermine the government before?

Do you remember pickets out side the oil refineries being allowed inside to use the toilet and canteen facilities who had tea and bacon rolls brought out to them on the picket lines?

I seem to remember Lorries parked across the highways causing an obstruction with the chief of police in the area doing an interview saying what jolly good chaps the pickets were.

They were going to block the highways etc. A motley crew of road haulers, sections of the black cab industry and the National Farmers Union, NFU which sounds like the NTA and their motto but I don't think it had anything to do with them.

It all collapsed after the oil companies met with Gordon Brown and it was agreed that there would be no windfall tax on their outrageous profits.

It's a bit like when the military top brass are wheeled out to attack the government at the same time as the OB are threatening to go on strike and civil servants and private companies are losing government records.

You might even agree with the filth having the right to strike just like we all agree that the ordinary man in the street pays far too much for petrol, but you just know the whole bloody thing aint kosher

Nationalize something profitable like the oil companies instead of throwing government money at northern bankers (northern rock not the NTA). Alternatively might it be an idea if the government took a leaf out of Ken Livingstone’s book and tried to do a deal with Hugo Chavez so as we could get cheep oil from Venezuela

They have to get the money from somewhere to prop up Northern Rock, to pay US firms to lose records, send young men and women to be killed and maimed in George Bushes wars for oil.

Sorry to be a bit cynical but the geordies I have met over the years were always sickened by the way that the working people were ripped off by the people who run the show (big business) and those who administrate on their behalf while giving the illusion of democracy (the government, whether it be tweedle dee or tweedle dumb at whatever given moment in time)

Still we could always go back to a fuedal monarchy and get ripped off while we are arguing where Sedan chairs can and can't pick up

Incorrect bandit. The last thing I would do is have a pop at the Geordies or the Scouse come to that some of the most loyal , self sacrificing and dedicated trade unionists I have ever known and who I hold in more respect than most others come from those two regions of England.

Nationalisation of the oil companies who have been recording record profits running into tens of billions have been recorded in the last four years and your argument does not hold water.

For example if the revenues from North sea oil had been pumped back into the country instead of helping to make oil companies from this country and others so rich that countries go to war over it, (or more accurately the most advanced industrialised countries commit mass murder to get their hands on developing countries national resources), perhaps we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now.

It is a scandal that these gangsters (and that is what they are) can hold a democratically elected government to ransom (that is cynicism) as explained in an earlier post.

What we wouldn't want to do I would have thought is get mixed up with dodgy groupings like those who have organised the fuel protests. Surely our argument is for a more effective public transport system that is properly integrated.

Surely a government committed to environmental preservation should be adopting that line and within that context I think there is a legitimate argument for subsidized fuel for those providing public transport.

After all if it is good enough for those who grow our food i.e. the farmers then surely it is right for it to be extended to those providing public transport.

Might be a bit difficult though if they are still in gangster, sorry private hands.

Hello I am Joe.i am a driver with too many years in the trade. i have read this forum over the months and have to say some of you make sence, notice i said some.

at this point i have joined and feel the need to post. the trade is in the poop because of silly arse people like that terry the 50's porn star fannygain. you had money from me over the years when i was a member of the gmb and when i needed help your silly twit of a regional rep knew bugger all so i lost my case and he gave me incorrect guidance so i for 1 can say the gmb is not worth the shit that runs it.

i read on here and never thought i would post but you lot are mental.
you are trying to win points for yourselves and not the poor buggers that pay into the union.have you told them that it is always a majority vote that you always support and if an individual member askes for help he has as much chance of getting help as getting a blow job from a 20 foot croc.

and the fellow bandshit or bandit you are as bright as a Coleman's arse in the dark. you post some decent stuff but why do you beat about the bush tell these gmb idiots the bottom line that they are killing the industry because the old cardigan wearer knows not a jot about this trade and its modern needs.

and the trade needs to be more informed without having to join a barsturd union
happy xmas joe plush