Strike boss Tosh McDonald claims he sympathises with commuters – what utter Tosh – there’s NO strikes where he lives
He doesn't care that 300,000 people every day are having their jobs wrecked as his members are offered increased job security
JUST read this self-serving crap from the aptly named Tosh McDonald, the Rick Wakeman lookalike who is both a train driver and president of Aslef, which so loves causing pain to passengers:
“I get recognised now and people do complain about the strikes. Of course I sympathise with people who have to put up with the atrocious service on Southern but its atrocious every day.
“We are going on strike so they don’t have to put up with atrocious service.”
He’s a bloody liar. The stoppages have nothing do with service.
Tossers like Tosh don’t give a damn that 300,000 people every day are having their family life and jobs wrecked.
His members have been offered increased job security (no redundancies, repeat no redundancies) and pay but his mob are in it for the power and want to bring down this Government by using commuters as battering rams.
On the other hand I do have sympathy with the striking British Airways crew as they are underpaid with the management putting shareholders way ahead of passengers.
I hope crew succeed in a new deal but, like you, I can fly with any number of airlines which is not true of rail travel.
That’s why Mrs May should take a serious look at curbing union power in state monopolies. Not easy but it must be looked at.
Plus isn’t it fascinating that McDonald lives in Doncaster where there is no sign of Aslef going on strike as it might make life difficult for him with his neighbours on his 20-minute walk to the station.
You don’t think he has he made Donny a haven of industrial peace at the expense of the South for personal reasons?
He wouldn’t dare make a 20-minute walk around Brighton. He would be lynched. Wouldn’t that be a sad loss?
PS. Question: Just how many days last year did McDonald actually drive a train? Perhaps somebody might tell me.
Mosley's money is tainted
IN a car crash of an interview on BBC1’s Sunday Politics Max Mosley, the orgy-loving racist who is funding a full-scale attack on free speech, made a startling admission.
The £3.8million he put up to create his own regulator (you could not make this up) came from a family trust re-based from Lichtenstein to the UK, meaning much of the wealth had been created by his father, the Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley.
Max Mosley as I have reported before, was a great fan of his father, believing that minorities should be banned from the country and referring to The Jew in a letter to The Times.
During the TV interview he said his family had owned large chunks of Manchester and there was even a Mosley Road. Am astonished the local council hasn’t sought a name change.
So the money is tainted as, of course, is Max Mosley. He failed to explain why he had never distanced himself from his early views on Fascism.
Surely the Left should be all over this. Why so quiet?
If I had Mosley’s background I would want the Press to be my poodle. Unfortunately it still has teeth.
And I so enjoy sinking them into scumbags like Mosley. He would probably pay me good money for that.
Elton loves love, again
WITH the words “I love you”, Watford’s former owner Elton John paid a generous public tribute to the late Graham Taylor, who transformed the club during his ten-year tenure as manager.
Mind you there are clear dangers of being close too close Elton.
Take this picture from Live Aid in the Eighties. There are only a handful of celebs in it and yet today Elton is the only one left standing.
Princess Diana (gone at 36). David Bowie (gone at 69). George Michael (gone at 53).
All received moving farewells from Elton ranging from “I have lost a beloved friend” for George Michael to “I am still in shock” for Bowie, not to mention new lyrics for Candle In The Wind for Diana.
Even now he is probably readying his Instagram account for the next wave. I have my suspicions I will not be included.
Thank God for that.
Call off jockey's will row
SOME years back my father sent me and my brothers a letter explaining he wasn’t going to leave us any money in his will (he didn’t have much) because it would all go to his new family.
Fair enough. It was for him to do what he wanted with his own money.
Similarly legendary jockey, Pat Eddery, has left his entire £1.3million estate to his long-time stable girl lover and not a penny to his four children.
His alcoholism detached him from his kids but now at least one of them is considering fighting the will.
My advice? Don’t bother. The money will be swallowed in legal bills, the battle will take over your life and the chances of winning are remote
I am fascinated by family fights over wills so if you are involved in one please contact me at [email protected]. I’d like to hear your story.
RELATED STORIES
MINICAB driver told me the other day he had lost his trust in banks and now kept his cash under the mattress.
I suggested that sounded a bit obvious but he said no thief would look in the garden.
Porridge stirrer
ON Friday’s heaving 7.42 a woman in her late twenties squeezes into the middle-seat opposite me, produces a Tupperware box containing a brown porridge-like mixture and proceeds to eat it very slowly from Surbiton to Waterloo.
I was astonished she didn’t get out the salt and pepper.
I glared at her but to no avail. Don’t suppose she could have got up five minutes earlier and eaten breakfast at home.
What do you think? Thick, selfish or both?
AT last you are getting the message.
Column reader David Hunt received a renewal from RAC of £999.98 for his car insurance, up from £384 the previous year.
Normally he would have coughed up. This time he contacted the charlatans at the RAC who would knock off £60.
But remembering my “loyalty doesn’t pay” message he went on price switching sites, settling for £394 with Admiral and saving almost £600.
It doesn’t matter if it’s my site at or you will save good money.
If you have elderly relatives do it for them too.
It’s not only the insurers who are exploiting the old. A family member contacts me to say his 89-year-old mother-in-law who is disabled and lives alone received a contract renewal from the energy company Southern Electric.
The only option offered was online. But she doesn’t have a computer, tablet or iPhone – and there was no phone number helpline.
Which means if she doesn’t choose a new tariff she will automatically be moved to the much more expensive standard variable tariff.
This is one for Ofgem. All energy companies should offer a phone number for the elderly otherwise you might think they would rip off the customer. Surely not.
Do send your saving stories to [email protected].
Punnies
ON a car parts delivery van in Ellistown, Leics – Who Spares Wins.
Driving instructor in Peterborough – Around The Bend.
Sandwich shop in Oakengates, Shrops – The Filling Station.
Another sandwich shop in Handsworth, Sheffield – Bake ’n’ Sarny.
Gardener’s van in Lincolnshire – Peat and Two Veg.
Sign on a pub in Sherwood, Notts – Husband day care – we take good care of him while you shop.
IT repair shop in Pimlico, West London – Bits and PCs.
Dog training school near Melbourne, Australia – “Sit Happens”.
The punnies are back on form. Please send more to [email protected].