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[gothwalk]

Dublin Bus are fuckers. They're on strike for part of today, because the Government, in a rare move of good sense, is intending to break up CIE, the monolithic entity that keeps public transport in this country in its current stunted state. However, they gave times for the strike - and then apparently started early, at least on our bus routes, forcing inannajones to walk into town in boots that aren't suitable for walking, but would have been perfectly suitable for taking a bus in.

I'd go into my usual rant about unions being fundamentally untrustworthy here, but I know that in this case, it's not unions as such, it's the imbeciles, troglodytes and morons who staff Dublin Bus and can't read a watch. Fuckers.

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I put it to you sir...

[mr-wombat.livejournal.com]

That while they may be mainly a large mob of otherwise unemployable fucktards, this time they have vaild points. The minister for transport promised to consult them on any privatisation issues and then went straight ahead in typical governmental fashion and ignored those promises.

Also, while privatisation is theoretically a good idea, history has shown that even a GOOD service can be screwed up by it, so you can imagine the half arsed debacle that would result in any attempt by the current government at privatising CIE in this country. If they managed anything more positive than lining their own pockets and completly screwing up the privatisation process, leaving certain routes unserviced, I would be absolutely stunned.

Bottom line, if it were another government doing the privatisation it might have a chance of benefiting the country as a whole, however that's just not going to happen and this time I support the strikers but I certainly don't condone the usual crap by certain members where they decide to sacrifice solidarity in favour of their own selfish wankery.