As Miserable As ever, Prince Harry

A royal biographer claims that Prince Harry looks as miserable as Edward VIII after stepping down from royal duties alongside his wife, Meghan Markle.

Hugo Vickers, who’s written books about the Duke of Kent and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, claims both Harry and Edward VIII appeared to cast sadness after cutting relations with the Royal Family.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit their royal responsibilities in 2020 in an apparent endeavour to sidestep media scrutiny and the pressures associated with being working royals.

Similarly, the Duke of Windsor, who’d once been King of England relinquished the throne in 1936 in order to wed American divorcee Wallis Simpson, a partnership that was fought by the UK government.

Although Edward VIII never confessed remorse about his abdication, Mr Vickers claims he’d never seen anyone with such sad eyes as the ex-ruler.

He said that he believed the reason the Queen always had such sparkling eyes was that she devoted herself to duty.

He alleged that Edward VIII took the path of perceived happiness by marrying Wallis Simpson, but in the end, it’s duty that makes you happy.

The author said that if you’d woken him up at 4 am and questioned if he had any remorse he would have probably said no, but if you truly want to know what he actually felt, just look at his eyes.

Mr Vickers argued that Prince Harry has also seemed unhappy after giving up his life as a functioning royal.

He said that as for the Duke of Sussex, who knows what’s going to happen to him? He said he thinks he looks absolutely miserable.

The biographer also addressed new King Charles III’s vision for a slimmed-down monarchy, alleging it’s risky for the royal family.

He said the Queen and Prince had almost 2,000 organisations between them. You’ve lost Prince Andrew and Prince Harry, so who’s going to do it now?

Mr Vickers’ remarks came just days after Buckingham Palace released the first official photograph of King Charles III with his Queen Consort, Camilla.

By their side stood the Prince of Wales, his eldest son and successor, indeed a good deal taller than Charles, and the recently appointed Princess of Wales, his wifey.

The photo is brimming with symbolism of course. The new monarch is shown with his son and heir while looming behind them is a glowering picture of King George III, the longest reigning male sovereign in British history.

Prince Harry might not look happy, but on the other hand, why would he want to come back to such a claustrophobic existence? I mean, what’s in it for him, he’s just the spare, and we should just accept that this is what he wanted.

I would imagine that what he was actually bothered about is that his own blood family didn’t give a damn about him, although he did leak stories about them. On the other hand, on the day that the Queen died, they should have all put their differences behind them for a while at least, but snubbing Harry didn’t make them look very good.

Let’s face it, one image out of millions has been taken, then someone will write an article about it, and then expect everyone to be so concerned about it while others will be freezing this winter.

Does it actually matter why Prince Harry looks so unhappy? Is everybody really that concerned? Probably not! And to be fair, Harry looked rather pitiful, even before he got married – this is probably his normal look anyhow.

A Petition Calling For An Early General Election Is Signed By 500,000 People

Almost half a million people have signed a petition demanding an early general election in the wake of Liz Truss’ turbulent time in office.

Parliament will now argue the UK government and parliament petition after it passed the 100,000 threshold on September 29, the day Miss Truss pledged to stick by her contentious economic strategy.

Four days on, and the signature count now stands at more than 470,000.

A debate date has yet to be determined.

Petition organiser Darrin Charlesworth said that the chaos engulfing the United Kingdom government was unprecedented. Around 40 ministers quit leaving departments without supervision during the cost of living, energy and climate crises.

Darrin Charlesworth said that war rages in Ukraine, the Northern Ireland Protocol has also damaged relationships with Europe, recession looms, and the United Kingdom itself may cease to exist as Scotland seeks independence, and said that this is the greatest set of challenges we’ve seen in our lifetimes and that we should let the people determine who leads us through this turmoil.

The government shrugged off the petition on September 20, saying that the United Kingdom was a parliamentary democracy and the Conservative Party remains the majority group, and it was said that the prime minister had promised to ensure opportunity and prosperity for all people and forthcoming generations.

The government said the Tories in charge would remain the case given the party’s triumph in the 2019 general election which saw Boris Johnson elected prime minister.

So unless an earlier one is called, the next election won’t be until January 2025.

It added that a shift in the leader of the governing party doesn’t initiate a general election and that this has been the case under governments of flourishing political colours.

According to digital archives, and it’s fair to say a lot has occurred since then, the petition was made as early as July.

At the time, it had only a dozen or so signatures. But it accumulated thousands of signatures in the weeks leading up to Liz Truss’ instalment as prime minister.

The petition was established months before Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget catapulted the country further into crisis, sending the pound into a tailspin and leading the Bank of England to intervene before it was too late.

Even former culture secretary Nadine Dorries said that Liz Truss should call for a general election, but then this is what occurs when you have ‘it’s my turn to be Prime Minister’ kind of appointments, which was what sort of occurred with Gordon Brown.

To be honest, give it a few months and people will be begging for Boris Johnson to come back.

I thought at least Liz Truss would take a bit longer to mess things up, so congratulations on becoming the fastest Prime Minister to get the worst PM ever title – now she’s defeated all the records.

I’m sure many of my readers will join me in personally thanking all those shortsighted Tory Party members who elected Liz Truss as our Prime Minister without our approval.

I thought at least once they elected a new Prime Minister that we would be able to look forward to at least a short while without some backscratchers running the country with their noses in the trough.

A ‘Devastating’ New COVID Wave Has Already Begun In The United Kingdom, Say, Experts

Experts have warned that Britain is already at the start of a devastating new COVID spiral that may incapacitate the NHS this winter.

Early data showed that new subvariants of Omicron are developing around the immunity that was built up through vaccinations and COVID infections.

Some scientists fear the new immune evasive variants may cause genuine concerns for the already on its knees NHS as the cold winter approaches and seasonal pressures start to bite.

Others have insisted that an autumn surge was unavoidable. Despite worries of resurgence, Liz Truss’s Government is unlikely to bring back any pandemic-era regulations because sky-high immunity rates have morphed the disease into something that closer resembles the flu, a seasonal virus the country lives with every year.

COVID cases grew 14 per cent last week, according to the most up-to-date figures. Around 1.1 million Britons are presently infected, statisticians calculate.

The leap marked the first sustained rise since mid-July when the summer surge peaked and ministers encountered calls to bring back economically crippling curbs which were axed as part of the living with COVID approach.

Officials allege a reduction in testing and the sketchy surveillance of new immune evasive subvariants, a knock-on effect of No 10’s new approach has formed the ideal storm for another COVID spike.

COVID experts say the immune evasive variants of the virus are already beginning to generate a small boost in infections.

Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist and co-founder of the COVID ZOE app, told a newspaper outlet that it looks like we’re at the beginning of the next wave and this time it’s affected more senior people slightly earlier than the last spiral.

He explained that symptoms are also presenting themselves slightly differently than in prior variants, meaning many infected individuals aren’t seeking COVID tests.

He explained that manifestations are also showing themselves slightly differently than in previous variants, meaning many infected people aren’t seeking COVID tests.

Professor Spector asserted that numerous people were still using the government approaches about symptoms which were wrong.

He said at the moment, COVID starts in two-thirds of people with a sore throat. Fever and loss of smell are actually rare now, so many old people may not even believe they’ve got COVID and say they’ve got a cold and not get tested.

The University of Warwick virologist Professor Lawrence Young said that they’ve really taken their eye off the ball with COVID tests. He said that they can only detect variants or know what’s coming by doing sequencing from PCR testing, but that’s not going on anywhere near the extent it was a year ago.

The thing is if you need a booster after being completely vaxxed, need a face mask after being completely vaxxed, need to be tested after being completely vaxxed, and are still hospitalised after being completely vaxxed, it’s probably time you realised that you’ve been conned, and it’s amazing that we scarcely saw the flu anywhere last year. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence though as they start to accentuate COVID again, and this time it’s probably better to let nature takes its course.

There were many people who had the jab and some of them ended up with Carditis, and are still suffering and are on lifelong medication for it now. Some people were forced to have the jab or lose their jobs, especially if they worked for the NHS, and some people had the jab and then later died of a heart attack, and they weren’t even elderly. There was a report on it every week, it was crazy.

Thousands Of Young Australians Are Considering Moving Overseas By The End Of The Year

New research reveals that more than one in five Australians are contemplating departing the country within the next year.

The data came from the latest AustralianNOW study by Quantum Market Research.

The study found that Australia was set to lose about 600,000 people.

The report says that with an increasing proportion of Australians planning to relocate internationally and Australia’s net overseas migration not set to completely recuperate until 2024, the country is expected to face a possible cumulative loss of around 600,000 people.

Young people are driving those numbers, with almost 40 per cent of those aged between 18-29 looking to move.

Men are more interested in relocating internationally compared to women. The majority cited job opportunities as the reason.

The report said that those looking to relocate are more likely to be aged 18-29 (73 per cent) and male (56 per cent compared to 41 per cent for women).

Lifestyle and quality of life have trumped cost of living as the strongest driver of a potential relocation (up from 40 per cent in February 2021 to 49 per cent in August 2022.

Cost of living and housing affordability are strong secondary drivers at 45 per cent and 36 per cent respectively.

Overall, 52 per cent of metropolitan-based Aussies would consider moving either within the country or overseas, higher than the 42 per cent of those living in regional areas.

West Australians were the most likely to make a move within the country, while those living in NSW were most likely to consider moving overseas in the next year.

QMR chief executive, Imogen Randell told The Australian that the statistics have created concerns over workforce shortages in the next 12 months, and the data shows that it’s younger Australians aged under 40 who are most likely to be looking to move internationally, and this was a problem because they’re the ones who are being relied upon to cover workforce shortfalls.

She said that many were working overtime to replenish the worker void, leaving them wondering about leaving and potentially taking off. The more that occurs the more difficult it will be for employers to find suitably skilled staff, but given this, it was good that the federal government had already moved to raise the annual immigration intake.

Australia was already encountering considerable workforce shortages due to the lasting impact of the COVID pandemic and closed borders.

However, numerous young people aspire to travel, and young Australians are no different. Travelling is a good thing – it widens the horizons, and young people should travel, it teaches them so much.

It’s pretty normal for young people to want to travel outside of their own country because they have no responsibilities, no children and no mortgages et cetera.

On the other hand, some young people just know what they need without having to sleep in a hostel with a crazy person sleeping next to them. At the end of the day, grass is grass, trees are trees, beaches are beaches, snow is snow, food is food, but everyone acts like Australia is the worst place on this planet, but believe you me there are worse places to live.

But perhaps youngsters should travel to distant places, then it might give them the concept of how good their own country is, especially once you’ve been out there and seen what’s going on in more impoverished countries, I would imagine that Australia stacks up rather well on the grand scale of things.

Are First-Class Carriages On Their Way Out?

Southeastern has become the latest commuter train operator to discard first-class carriages as the Department for Transport orders companies to cut costs due to low demand post-pandemic.

Whitehall officials approved a call to axe first class tickets and free up seats after rail bosses revealed only 28 annual season ticket holders paid the premium fare.

The nationalised southeast operator, which operates 1,500 services from Sussex to Kent, is the latest to ditch commuter first class tickets, following Greater Anglia, West Midlands, East Midlands, and the Stansted Express.

According to a newspaper outlet, with train travel demand still lower than pre-pandemic levels, the DfT welcomed the move as a spokesman said it would benefit commuters.

He said commuters repeatedly grumbled of having to stand and look at empty first-class seats from packed standard carriages, adding that Southeastern had taken measures to make commuters’ travel more comfortable and ease overcrowding.

First-class tickets have gradually begun to vanish from non-intercity routes across the country and Whitehall sources said the impact of the latest culling would be closely scrutinised.

Great Western Railways removed first class seats from most of its regional services in 2016, citing a shift in expenses policy due to economic circumstances and also converted about half of their long-distance first class carriages to provide additional space for its patrons.

A spokesman for Northern, the Liverpool to Newcastle operator, confirmed the line no longer had first-class ticket options, despite being intercity.

First-class tickets on commuter routes have almost dropped off altogether, with operators such as Thameslink and Transpennine among the last to offer the premium service.

As train travel demand is still below pre-lockdown levels, the train network continues to drain public funds, with £10 billion of taxpayer money spent during the pandemic to keep operators afloat and almost £17 billion spent on the rail industry in total during that time.

Despite the removal of the first class commuter experience, Government sources said there were no plans to enforce the axing of premium long-distance services.

So, now it seems that we’re all cattle class, but then, on the other hand, many of the first class carriages have remained empty for a long time, so it seems a waste of space to leave them totally empty while ordinary people have to stand all their journey due to there being no seats.

But then, on the other hand, some people have discovered that you don’t actually have to purchase a first-class ticket to sit in a first-class area, they will sit there anyhow, and on the rare occasion the ticket inspector comes along, they will just feign ignorance and move to standard, and to be completely honest, it’s extremely rare that a ticket inspector comes to check.

There seems to be no penalty for doing this, apart from the humiliation of having to move, and there really doesn’t seem to be many inspectors to check tickets these days, and there definitely isn’t anyone there when a fight breaks out on a late-night train.

Everyone should be able to get a seat, especially with all this technology that we have these days, surely it’s not that difficult to figure out, and all that first class is simply a white napkin over the headrest, laughable really.

Things were so much better before the pandemic, but if you look at it logically, it was just a planned demic.

Travelling by train used to be so enjoyable, but now there are no inspectors and too many disrespectful and antisocial passengers, even in first class, but then again I suppose we could always ride on the roof like in India.

Before Christmas, Nine Out Of Ten Teachers May Support Strike Action

Nine in ten teachers could back walkout action before Christmas forcing schools to close across England over pay disputes.

The figures from the largest education union, the National Education Union (NEU), reveal that hundreds of thousands of educators could join rail and postal workers causing disruption across the country as they fight back.

Up to 30,000 members have said that they would become strike volunteers as they endeavour to get their message heard.

In fact, the NEU survey, which was sent out to 450,000 members, led to the website crashing as unhappy teachers expressed their concerns.

The online ballot, which so far has 7,000 responses, still has a fortnight to run and an insider has disclosed the union will open up to a formal vote for striking.

NEU General Secretary Mary Bousted told a newspaper outlet that teachers don’t want to strike but they’re desperate and fleeing the profession in droves. Striking is their last resort, and it’s a message that things can’t go on like this.

It will pour more misery on both parents whose children were consistently forced to miss long periods of school during the COVID pandemic.

Teachers are demanding an above inflation rise in their earnings after the Department of Education told them that most would receive a five per cent rise, rising to 8.9 per cent for newly qualified staff.

But more strike action dooms on the country as the current retail price index rate (RPI), which measures inflation, was at 12.3 per cent in August.

Schools are facing a teacher retention crisis due to more than a decade of pay issues where real pay has dropped by a fifth since 2010.

Just last week NAHT union’s General Secretary Paul Whiteman said that the spiralling energy bills, inflationary prices, and lack of funding for teachers’ pay this year meant school leaders were forced to make cuts that ultimately couldn’t help but negatively affected the education and wellbeing of children.

He said that they encourage all political groups to listen to the profession to really comprehend the connection between funding, pay, and children’s life chances, and to commit to making the investment into education that’s so urgently needed.

It comes also after a summer of widespread union protesting among rail staff, postal workers and NHS staff.

In fact, just yesterday passengers were met with travel chaos as unions kickstarted the biggest rail walkout in decades during one of the busiest sporting weekends of the year.

Most teachers work from 7 am and seldom leave work or stop working till about 6 pm, and weekends are frequently worked as well. They’re not only just teachers, but social workers, counsellors, and the police and they also suffer abuse from parents.

But let’s face it, they’re no longer educators of children, but drones of the state, along with our children, and now, of course, our children will have more disruption to their schooling, so welcome to the gloomy, cold, dark and hungry winter of our discontent.

However, most teachers don’t want to strike, I mean who wants to strike? But the way newspapers demonise teachers to get readers is shocking, but then again, if you look at the basic blunders made in most articles it’s evident that these substandard journalists didn’t have a fantastic experience at school.

But it seems that the newspaper outlets are demonising everything, and then once everything loses support, the Tories can privatise it. It’s that good old saying ‘you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone’, and people are falling for all this garbage.

Pregnant Kelly Osbourne Defends Her Decision Not To Breastfeed

Kelly Osbourne has hit back at critics who have judged her decision to not breastfeed once she gives birth.

The reality celebrity who is the daughter of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne revealed in May that she and boyfriend Sid Wilson are expecting their first child together.

Kelly, 37, said she’s made the decision not to breastfeed so she can stay on medication. She revealed she’s been criticised by friends and extended family over her choice to bottle feed.

She said that she’s decided to remain on her medication instead of breastfeeding and the judgment that she’s received from her friends and also extended family was wild.

Kelly revealed people have warned her that she’s going to miss out on the bonding period, but she said it was more important to maintain her wellbeing, and she added “What kind of mother am I gonna be if I start going backwards if I start being self-destructive? It has to be what’s best for me, what’s gonna be the best for my baby.”

Kelly has once struggled with and sought help for, alcoholism, drugs, depression and anxiety.

Elsewhere in the interview, Kelly described pregnancy as the wildest experience and praised her parents for their support, and she said that she feels extremely fortunate, and that her parents have been so amazing, and that she feels eternally indebted to them.

Kelly revealed her pregnancy on Instagram by posting a picture of herself with her ultrasound.

She wrote that she knows she’s been extremely quiet these past few months so she thought she would share with everyone why.

She said that she was over the moon to announce that she was going to be a Mumma and to say that she was happy didn’t quite cut it. She said that she was ecstatic.

Kelly recently revealed that her pets have joined her in bed ever since she became pregnant, making her feel so protected at night, and she shared a picture with her 2.4 million followers on Instagram of her pet pooches snoozing beside her.

She said ever since she became pregnant all the dogs started sleeping in bed with her and that she loves it.

She added that the dogs check on her all night and that she feels so protected, and Kelly is doing what’s best for her and her family, and a happy mummy equals a happy baby.

Breastfeeding is a personal preference, and numerous mothers don’t breastfeed and they have extremely healthy children.

We should leave the poor woman alone. There’s nothing wrong with bottle feeding, and no woman should be made to feel inadequate.

We all make our own choices, and whatever the reason behind those choices has nothing to do with anyone else, and people should quit being so negative, and they should also be ashamed of themselves as this sort of behaviour by them will only make Kelly’s anxiety worse, and this is just not on. Kelly should do what she damn well likes because it’s nobody elses business.

And after going through birth, having stitches and unsightly piles I’m sure the last thing on her mind will be getting sore nipples.

It’s bad enough when random strangers who don’t know your history bitch about you, but when it comes to friends and family, that’s even worse. These are the people who you should be able to count on, and have your back, even if they don’t understand.

Who Kelly Osbourne is irrelevant because this applies to numerous women out there that are in a similar position, and if this gives them some solace that they’re not alone, then that must be a good thing.

Without A Headscarf, An Iranian Woman Eats Breakfast

A young woman was arrested by Iranian authorities after being pictured eating breakfast in a restaurant without a headscarf.

The picture, which shows Donya Rad consuming breakfast with her friend in a restaurant in Tehran without headscarves, went viral on social media and drew across-the-board attention.

The pair had been protesting the recent death of Mahsa Amini, who was killed in the custody of the Iranian morality police after being arrested for the improper wearing of a hijab.

Mahsa Amini died at the age of 22, three days after she was arrested by the morality police responsible for enforcing stringent Islamic dress code. The police said she died of a heart attack and didn’t suffer any mistreatment, despite experts claiming she was severely beaten.

Her death has already sparked widespread demonstrations throughout Iran, with public figures voicing their rage, including the Iranian national football team, who kept their black tracksuits on during anthems at the international friendly against Senegal.

After Donya’s picture went viral, it was seen by the morality police, who summoned her to explain her actions, but when Donya arrived to explain, she was arrested by police.

Her family haven’t heard from her since, other than a quick call that told them she was being transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison infamously known as the prison that held Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

Donya Rad’s sister, Dina, disclosed that they were confronted by police before her sister’s detention.

She said, yesterday after the above image was published, the security agencies contacted her sister, Donya Rad and summoned her to give an explanation. After agreeing to be interrogated, she was arrested, but after a few hours of no news from her, she told her in a brief call that she’d been arrested and had been moved to Ward 209 of Evin Prison. The family are extremely worried about her health and safety.

The decision to arrest Donya Rad signals the unease Iranian authorities are encountering over unrest in the country, with demonstrations following the demise of Ms Amini spiralling into protests against the Iranian regime.

In the two weeks since the death of Ms Amini and the demonstrations that ensued, at least 83 people, including children, have been killed.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said at least 29 journalists have been arrested, including Nilufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, the female journalist that helped to bring Ms Amini’s case to light.

This is truly horrendous. Honestly, for not wearing a flaming scarf. It’s like living in the dark ages, and what a courageous lady she is, but then that’s the Middle East for you, but then I suppose it’s their country, their rules.

However, the fact still remains that fearful and weak men fear strong women.

These are fearless women, and I absolutely applaud all women for standing up for their liberties with such dignity. Their bravery is awe-inspiring and I’m not sure I would have the courage to stand up to this tyrannical regime given the possible consequences, and this is definitely one country I’m so glad not to have been born in, and it just proves that the life we lead is the luck of the draw.

However, control and oppression of women at the hands of men will never cease, particularly when it concerns religion.

Religion is something that is personal to a person, not a stage-implemented form of power, but numerous countries like Iran still consider women as possessions, and the issue here is that in these countries men value their dogs more than they value their women.

Refugee Sobbing As She Packs Up And Returns To War-Torn Ukraine

The refugee abandoned by her British lover after he left his partner and two children for her is packing her bags and returning to Ukraine after he rejected her last bid reunion pleas in a one-hour phone call.

British father of two Tony Garnett told Sofiia Karkadym, 22, there was no chance they would ever be a couple again and he was keen to move on with his life.

The former couple spoke for the first time since police arrested her after a drunken row during which she rammed a kitchen knife into a wall last weekend and Tony stated he was terminating the relationship.

Tony, who embarked on a four-month affair with the refugee 10 days after she’d moved into the family home he shared with his partner Lorna and two young daughters, told a desperate Sofiia that her mother was also demanding she return to Ukraine.

Her mother Katerina told Tony that in love, everyone has their own destiny, and at first they were not pleased, but that she loved him and that this was a serious relationship, but now it’s over and they would like her to come home.

Sofiia has been arrested twice and cautioned by the police not to approach or get in touch with her ex-lover, but Tony agreed to contact her after hearing that she was in floods of tears in her interim accommodation while the Home Office and Ukrainian officials determine what her next move should be.

Tony, from Bradford, said that he’s not insensitive, that he does feel sad for her, but relationships come to an end and that this one is over, and that he hopes that they can be friends when all the hysteria has died down.

He said that he spoke to her and told her that there was simply no chance of them getting back together, and he said that sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind and that she’ll be much better off in Ukraine or if she gets a new relationship, and that he wished her good fortune.

Sofiia said she wouldn’t give up on Tony despite his rejection of her, and with tears flowing down her cheeks, she told a newspaper outlet that she was happy that he was talking to her again and that she didn’t want to break up with just a message that he’d sent her.

This is a heartbreaking story, but not sure why it made national news. I suppose because it’s about being human and people can connect to this sort of news on several levels, and because of course, we don’t have Jeremy Kyle anymore. Although I’m still not entirely sure why two women would have cried over this man – he looks like a real catch, doesn’t he?

And isn’t this rather inappropriate considering there’s a war going on in Ukraine where there are genuine war refugees, and clearly she wasn’t one of them? And hopefully, this will be the last that we’ll hear of this ridiculous saga. Although we shouldn’t get our knickers in a twist, they’ll likely we another twist in the saga in a couple of weeks’ time, when there’s another story or another that needs to be sold.

But these are trying times, and I’m guessing that Tony is now hoping for a stint in Big Brother or I’m a Celebrity, Get me out of here, or even an appearance on Good Morning Britain, and it’s getting to the point that this woman seems to be getting more news coverage than the war in Ukraine.

Britain Is Paralyzed By The Biggest Rail Strike In Decades

Militant unions were branded selfish as they kickstarted the biggest rail walkout in decades during one of the busiest sporting weekends of the year, with 50,000 train workers walking out across the country.

Members from the Aslef, RMT, Unite and TSSA unions are striking for 24 hours in a dispute over wages and working conditions, leaving just 11 per cent of services running.

The disruption will severely impact the 50,000 people who are expected to trek to the London Marathon on Sunday, with runners now being permitted to sign in the day before in an unusual bid to sidestep delays.

One Twitter user branded the strikes as selfish for impacting the marathon, while another added that it was a really important fundraising event for numerous charities and that it would be a shame if they suffered because of the walkout.

Another said that they thought the railway walkout was impacting one of the biggest charity fundraising events, and that it was poor timing and that it would boomerang on the unions.

However, RMT boss Mike Lynch rejected claims the unions were targeting the marathon, saying they were instead targeting the Conservative Party Conference.

Mike Lynch said it was essential to keep the velocity of the pay dispute going and pointed to members of the public who were supporting the union, adding that there were people who were inconvenienced who were supporting them every day on the picket lines.

The travel chaos will also hit football fanatics as the Premier League returns on Saturday, even seven fixtures expecting to see more than 200,000 spectators flock to stadiums across the country.

It’s the first time on record that major rail unions have joined forces to organise walkouts simultaneously.

Pop star Machine Gun Kelly and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli might also be left with quite a few empty seats at their concerts in the capital on Saturday.

Representatives heading to the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham for the weekend will also be affected.

RMT General Secretary Mike Lynch said it wasn’t his intent to target the London Marathon.

He told BBC News that they haven’t targeted the London Marathon, they’ve more targeted the Tory conference if they were honest, and that they were the people accountable for this mess.

He said that whenever they put walkouts on it’s going to inconvenience people and they don’t want to do that, and they would much rather have a settlement and get out of this dispute, but greedy unions are responsible for fare increasing all the time and pricing poorer workers off the rails.

And how precisely is the average earner meant to use already overcrowded and overpriced rail services which are unreliable at the best of times, yet they want to be paid more money for basically doing a poor job? But they don’t care because it’s all about money, power and control.

So, now ends the summer of discontent, and now brings the long, cold, dark bleak winter of our discontent.

And what is the point of trying to improve the railways and even re-open closed lines and stations if these political thugs can just hijack them and hold passengers to ransom any time they like?

These Union bosses create mayhem, cost the country billions and go home taking their enormous pay packets, and then tell their supporters that they’re one of them. It’s a total farce and they’re doing nothing for the working man.

Apparently, this was aimed at the Conservative Party Conference, but it’s also hit the London Marathon, but people don’t actually care because they’re worrying more about heating their homes – bet the Union bosses don’t have to worry about their bills and heating their homes on their enormous salaries?

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