matticus
Guru
what sort of industrial action do you recommend to them? Refusing to bow to their managers?
Another transport strike?
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what sort of industrial action do you recommend to them? Refusing to bow to their managers?
dimrub
Über Member
Being an object of parts of this thread (i.e., "the midge", who, hopefully, didn't "stay" for "too long"), I don't think I have much say about UK tourism (for my part, I'm wholeheartedly supportive of tourism in my own country, reduced as it is). Allow me just to express my genuine surprise to see a topic, whose participant express negativity towards tourism under the forum titled "Touring Cycling".
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matticus
Guru
Everything has positives and negatives. I could tell you both about Las Vegas, if you want!
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On a side topic; where I now live - not here - most of my neighbours crossing the pond tend to go to Italy - or Spain, none seem to want to travel to Britain. Maybe it's the protests or the apparent attack on freedom of expression - which gets a lot of coverage, particularly police arresting ordinary fed-up people, or the now constant claim that Britain's heritage is a disgrace (London's mayor), whatever it is, people wanting to go on holiday will go where it is peaceful and they are welcomed.
On a side topic; where I now live - not here - most of my neighbours crossing the pond tend to go to Italy - or Spain, none seem to want to travel to Britain. Maybe it's the protests or the apparent attack on freedom of expression - which gets a lot of coverage, particularly police arresting ordinary fed-up people, or the now constant claim that Britain's heritage is a disgrace (London's mayor), whatever it is, people wanting to go on holiday will go where it is peaceful and they are welcomed.
markemark
Über Member
Which "ordinary fed-up people" are being arrested?
TC99
Regular
How do you think we got the "weekend"? Or paid annual leave? Or sick pay? Benevolent employers or organising and industrial action?
TC99
Regular
Stupid racists
markemark
Über Member
Maybe. Or maybe there are some other people: I was just wanting to know as I'm fed-up and didn't want to be arrested at my desk.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Maybe you missed it from over there, but cycle-friendly heritage-hating Boris hasn't been London's mayor for some time. He became an MP, then stopped being mayor, then became Prime Minister, but resigned as PM when he couldn't find enough of his party willing to be ministers (primarily after appointing a notorious MP as a minister, seemingly despite being briefed there were allegations yet to become public), then resigned as an MP rather than be sentenced for lying to Parliament and trying to mislead and intimidate the investigating committee. For cycle touring, probably his biggest legacy will have been creating Active Travel England, a government agency to improve cycling (and walking) led from its outset by Chris Boardman, but it's early days for that yet.
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BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
Probably best avoiding inciting / organising a riot, then.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
But it's so difficult to avoid inciting a riot on cyclechat.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
It's not all bad then.
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
Just because I/we don't 100% approve of something doesn't necessarily mean that we don't do it ourselves.
For example, I eat meat and burn more fossil fuels than I really should. And horrors of horrors, some of that is for leisure miles on a motorbike.
I know it doesn't sit well with some, even myself at times! But too bad, it is called life and sometimes you have to put it ahead of your conscience.
Same goes for tourism. You can't please all the people all the time, so despite my reservations about it, I still take holidays away from home. Might even drive or fly to get there. And stuff the consequences, I'm not going to change the world!
Slick
Guru
Yes, there are examples that I can think off that show signs of decay despite tourism but from what I can see it is usually because of greedy private investors buying up property and turning into air B&B and the like. I realise that's a huge generalisation, but I can picture at least a couple of places where that's exactly the problem.
"Stop the Boats".
