"Tube drivers' salaries will soar to £50,000... but they'll still work just 35 hours a week"

"Tube drivers will earn £50,000 salaries despite never working more than 35 hours a week, under a lucrative new pay deal. Some London Underground workers will receive £10,000 pay rises over four years in what unions have called 'the best offer in the public sector'. The militant Rail Maritime and Transport union has won a 5 per cent rise for its members now, with index-linked rises over the following three years. Drivers who already earn around £46,000 salaries will earn £52,300 on average. The LU's latest capitulation to the RMT means many transport workers will enjoy a 20 per cent pay hike by 2015.


Taxpayers funding the generous pay rises are already looking ahead to higher ticket prices while experiencing cuts in their own pay." -- Daily Mail website

So you are telling me that the gormless f*ck in the photo above is now set to earn £50,000 pa to hold down a f*cking handle? Why do we put up with this?? Anybody could be a tube driver... it simply makes no sense. As I've said on more than one previous occasion SACK THE F*CKING LOT OF THEM!!!

Rant over.

I thought the below was funny (taken from Stupid London blog)...

"London Underground's tube trains are among the most advanced modes of transport in the world and are very difficult to control - which is why all tube train drivers are secretly recruited from the ranks of the world's very best jet fighter test pilots. When a test pilot shows exceptional daring and promise - perhaps by flying upside-down through Wookey Hole, or doing a 'cloud skid' with no hands - they receive a secret telegram from London Underground inviting them to study at the mysterious tube train driving academy situated 25 miles below the capital's crust. If they accept, their death will be faked in an air show crash and they'll begin their gruelling nine-year studies. The subterranean students don't even get to sit in a tube train cab until they've spent a full four years examining the aerodynamic properties of earthworms, mole rats and badgers."