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The tunnels will be open to emergency service vehicles. They will have no trouble passing from one side of the Mersey to the other. The Unions agreed for some Tunnel staff to go in for this reason. All staff who volunteer will give their pay for the day to Clatterbridge Hospital.

Thatcher had it in for the working class, no look what the modern day tory goverment are doing!

got to clean up labours mess so everybody will suffer before it gets better. if u want to blame anybody, blame labour for plunging us billions in to debt!

Send the kids up chimneys, why shouldn't they have to earn their keep

The last time this happened Neil Scales (Merseytravel Cheif Exec) joined the strikers in the picket line. Will he be there this time?

What about the shit thatcher and co left us in before Labour came into power??? That Tory goverment didn't give a shit about working class people, yeah Labour had faults but come on!!!!

Worse than that, Thatcher intentionally destroyed Britsh industry under some weird idea that we concentrate on internal service industries, but where was the money to cover our imports going to come from?

Despite what the current government are saying, we are a lot stronger than they make out compared to most other major economies, they are exaggerating to manipulate money in the way they want while blaming it on the previous government.

All in all, Labour did a remarkable job considering the amount of heavy industry that had been obliterated.

Anyway, this strike is about another way of pinching money off people .... by attacking their pensions.

I was in school then, the only effect her reign had on me was the removal off my school milk.

i did the thatcher era as a module in university last year, and the research i found was that a lot of good was created such as the competitive market that allowed us tocreate more jobs and competition for lower prices for stuff like, gas, electric, telephone bills etc.

All labour have to show from the last term is over running us with immigrants making people lazy and giving shit loads of benefits to anybody who wanted them, hence the reason why we are so far in debt.

In my opinion whatever goverment is/was in charge they would be too scared to tackle the imigrant issue as they would of been called racist, the country is a joke right now!

Competitive markets creating cheap prices - you only have to look at the price of bottled water to realise that they are a myth.

In a truly competitive market all businesses are at permanent risk of going bankrupt which is a highly unstable economy and no good for anyone.

I've always seen our current immigration policies at being directed by the EEC, I vote UKIP most of the time.

We need unions, all the time I hear of employers taking extreme liberties (often illegal) with their employees, that is the main function of unions. Many companies have worked well with unions, there is nothing much better to win a contract than have a union state in the bid how supportive they will be of the work.

agreed!!!

racist to sing ba ba black sheep so now its ba ba rainbow sheep, racist to wear a poppy so even the england football team didnt wear them, racist to say christmas so now its happy holidays yet its not racist to celebrate eid, not racist to burn the st georges cross and not racist to try andtake over our country and enforce sharia law!

So what exactly are they striking for? I can understand ( to a point ) if you're disgruntled with your boss then maybe some actions are necessary, but to make it damn near impossible for other hardworking people to do their job by closing both tunnels is selfish.

LarryLaffer, I will say Merry Christmas, ba-ba black sheep etc and if I offend then I don't care, they can cover their ears if they don't like it

brilliant, just the way it should be

Their pensions are getting pratted around with after reluctantly agreeing with the previous changes to it.