I thought this interview belongs in the grand T2W joke section. Enjoy
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SO YOU DON'T GO TO THE TICKET OFFICE?' 'NO'. RMT UNION LEADER BOB CROW'S FULL INTERVIEW WITH ITV NEWS
'What, and lose the money?': Bob Crow on whether he should have cancelled his ill-timed Caribbean trip
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'What, and lose the money?': Bob Crow on whether he should have cancelled his ill-timed Caribbean trip
You have to move with the times. Have you got an Oyster Card? I have one. Most people do. Do we need as many ticket offices as we have? - 'Well that’s the issue at the end of the day…Of course there’s new technology…but it’s how you implement that change.'
But you have an Oyster Card, yes? - 'Yes.'
Do you use it? - 'Yes.'
So you don’t go to the ticket office? - 'No. But if I was partially sighted I couldn’t get an Oyster Card. If I couldn’t speak English properly I couldn’t. Also, if I was disabled and I had problems getting an Oyster Card. You’ve got to look at the minorities of people.'
Let’s talk about justification for the strike. Only a third of all members voted for strike action. Can you justify millions of Londoners standing in the rain tonight? - 'I can justify that because we’ve had a secret ballot and our members can vote yes or no and we respect their wishes whether they vote yes or no.'
But shouldn’t the threshold be higher? - 'Why don’t we have a margin and a threshold for local councils or MPs that are elected? The Mayor for example was elected with only 27% of Londoners. Has he got the mandate to close booking offices down?'
There’s an argument to say the Underground is an essential service…therefore if it was, you’d have to provide a minimum level on strike days… - 'Well a lot of things are essential services. Everything’s essential. Don’t forget, the first people who started ban strikes were people like Hitler before the war…'
Everyone is entitled to a holiday but isn’t the timing of your recent holiday appalling? - 'Not really. The holiday was booked last March. Eleven months ago so what was I meant to do?'
A man on your wage could have cancelled it and booked another one? - 'What and lose the money?'
Courtesy ITV News
Full JOKE here with pictures.