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Hopping off the #3 as it struggled up Dulwich Wood Park Rd, on the approach to Crystal Palace Parade, was comparatively simple.

When I was in the military we once had a tasking to set up a FARP (forward arming and refueling point) at Brompton Barracks for an exercise. Tasking order had the location as "Brompton Barracks, Gillingham". Rest of convoy packet arrived at Gillingham, Kent. Fuel tanker driver (who had to pick...

Yes. Number plates registered in distant areas of the country are often stopped at night in known trouble spots. It's called proactive policing and is based upon sound logic and results.

'Detector' vans are a myth/scam. Arguably there was the vague chance they could have detected TVs when cathode ray tubes were the norm but now, given the multiple different ways programs can be sourced and watched? Not a chance. They have always relied upon the technological ignorance many of...

How you feel is immaterial. It wouldn't be you who had to approach a suspect package and make a decision whether to call Bomb Disposal or not. Having experienced the immediate effects of a comparatively small IED whilst in Afghanistan and still living with consequences of that incident (loss of...

When there is doubt there is no doubt, treat as a threat until confirmed otherwise. How quickly wider society seems to have forgotten the issues we faced during 'The Troubles'. Having to check my car for IEDs every morning with the torch/mirror that came with our married quarter is something...

Is it? Try telling the large number of my colleagues who are off with Long Covid and/or MH issues that have come about from working at the sharp end of the pandemic that it's "history now".

Do you know how many unions represent NHS workers? It makes dealing with the four that cover the railways appear easy.

Indeed. Many stoked up to resent 'foreigners/EU' by a MSM controlled by those with an interest in seeing the UK outside of the EU. 'Disaster Capitalism' at its most odious.

Please don't use my industry as ammunition for your quite obvious anti-Union diatribes. The fact many of my colleagues in the NHS are too gutless to stand up for their professions and demand reasonable pay rises is why my profession (nursing) has seen its pay effectively cut by a fifth since...

If that's the case then you must have stayed in a very small, very privileged pond. As I said, I don't know a single Trust that has a policy against traveling in uniform (aside from aforementioned specialist areas) and I've worked in 20+ in just the last 11 years. Here is an example of uniform...

I've worked for the NHS since 2011, with substantive roles in two different Trusts over the 11 years. I've also worked for a specialist nursing agency, which has seen me working in 20+ different Trusts. In that time I have never worked for a Trust which prohibits travelling to/from work in...

- Nottingham and Leicester are two large cities on the MML. - EMR run the services that serve those cities. - EMR are struggling with current passenger numbers. - As it stands, increased passenger numbers on match days between Nottingham and Leicester will be an issue. Pretty sure this is the...

How would anyone know whether you're using the railway station or airport?

Ideological reasons.

No problem, I accept your apology. As one union member to another, these are troubling times. Unfortunately the unions many of my colleagues are in are toothless to the point of seemingly doing the government's work for them. Solidarity

So when is the right time? Since 2010 we have seen, on numerous occasions, pleas of "it's not the right time". 12 years and counting of "not the right time"...

To be honest, union membership should be encouraged more widely. It's no surprise that the T&C's of workers have reduced in line with the general reduction in union membership.

Thank you. Quite a shocking response really, especially as the points they raise apply equally to nurses. As for the bit they then go onto talk about (sharing revenue profit), do they think that good or bad performance by healthcare workers doesn't have financial repercussions? There are a...

The tap has been turned off for many of us, and has been for quite a while. This, despite a shortage of 40k+ Registered Nurses and the pull factor of jobs elsewhere in the world on higher wages.