I thought this interview belongs in the grand T2W joke section. Enjoy
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.