I don't see how that's like turkeys voting for Christmas. I'm a driver, I was one when it was nowhere near as well paid as it is now and I'm still one. I'm not motivated by the money and I like my colleagues in the guard, station, cleaning and engineering grades.
I'd rather live in a fairer society where teachers and nurses and all other essential workers are paid a decent wage and housing is affordable for everyone.
I'm not saying a Corbyn government would deliver all that but just that not all drivers cast their vote based on what they can screw out of it for themselves. Anyone who thinks the Conservative party of people like Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees Mogg, Chris Grayling and Michael Fallon is a friend of train drivers must be in cloud cuckoo land!
But I'm afraid many "modern" drivers ARE in it for the money. I'm not saying that other professions shouldn't be paid more, but it's not my responsibility to fund that. Or to fund free university. Repay student debt (which isn't even a proper debt or loan) or fund any more of Corbyn's ridiculous policies.
It's all way and good to say that now, but how many of us would happily give away £200-£300 of our salaries? Because that's the reality of it.
I haven't said their friends of mine or the industry. But, under this supposedly anti-working class government, minimum wage has never been higher and I've never paid less in tax than under this current government and I'm yet to see any major issues from it. You could flood billions to the NHS and we'd still wait weeks to see a doctor.
If I'm paying more tax, so are those above me. And to overly tax the middle to high earners and businesses would decimate our economy by greatly reducing our disposable incomes.
Socialist principles seem all well and good - take for example a cap on energy bills. But don't fear, I'm sure many workers on the higher middle incomes would be deemed well off enough to not require a cap, so in order to balance out their losses the energy firms would increase the uncapped rates greatly.
I would personally be far worse off under Labour. So yes, it would be like a turkey voting for Christmas!!