Tory Gareth Bacon is after our staff passes!
He reckons that during these tight financial times, 'the taxpayer' (as if Tube workers were not taxpayers!) should not pay for our travel around London.
Let's leave aside for one moment how much 'the taxpayer' is handing over to pay for Mr Bacon's expenses and the inflated salaries and expenses of his fellow Tories. Let's even leave aside the sums that 'the taxpayer' is paying to the obscene number of TfL/LU senior managers on 100-grand-plus salaries, and the wads of public money siphoned off from London's transport by private companies.
The fact is that we earn our staff passes - and our nominee passes. Why should we pay to travel around the system that we keep running?! Loss of the staff pass would be an attack on our living standards equivalent to a significant cut in pay.
Rather than attack our staff passes, London's politicians should extend this facility to those Tube workers who do not currently have it eg. cleaners an d other contractors.
