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Lousy tubes this evening. The drivers have quietly gone off on strike, I think. Hunting around on the web reveals perhaps why.

This is London:

More than 50,000 Tube commuters face the prospect of strikes on their line in a row over a train driver [sacked after being caught] playing squash.

The Scotsman

[London Mayor Ken] Livingstone claimed that since the sacked driver started working on the Underground in 1998, he had been off sick 20% of the time.

“On this occasion he was caught playing squash when he had been off work with a sprained ankle for months. The Underground


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One Response to “Down the Tubes”

Kev says:

Oh that Bob Crow really winds me up, he always has done, ‘Slackers apologist’ that’s what he is. Sack them both.

  •  Posted at 12:45 am on November 15th, 2003 by Kev.
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