The Week According To . . . Speakers Corner Steve

Speakers Corner Steve returns for our weekly booster of lively chat and opinion driven by some some of this weeks news and talking points in the media including........
Cash strapped Transport for London agrees bumper pay rise for tube workers - Teachers unions and anti-racist campaigners throw a wobbler after rules ban teachers from 'left wing brainwashing' - Blow me down! Storm Eunice hits the UK causing chaos with record breaking wind speeds - The harbingers of doom that are otherwise known as SAGE claim next COVID variant could kill a third of those infected - First we had The Great Reset now it's The Great Resignation as half of Britain's workers look to swap jobs - Another Grooming Gang jailed in West Yorkshire after 14 year old victim raped over a two year period by multiple 'men' - And finally, for all you sausage roll fans Primark and Greggs the bakers have teamed up to launch a clothing range..........Whatever next!

Steve has been a regular face at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park for the past 20 years and is a passionate advocate of free speech.
He stands against extremism and racism of all kind.
He positions himself in the middle politically, holding a mix of Right and Left wing views.
Originally from the South Coast of England, Steve is a lifelong Atheist, an all round good egg and was also an active Brexiteer !!
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Interview recorded 19.2.22

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Links to stories discussed in this episode
Financial crisis in London/TFL
Tube workers will get a bumper pay rise above inflation rate from 'cash-strapped' Transport for London due to pre-pandemic agreement.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10524751/Tube-workers-bumper-pay-rise-inflation-rate-cash-strapped-Transport-London.html

Financial Crisis at TfL. Despite the Government’s £1.8 billion
https://stevespeakers.medium.com/financial-crisis-at-tfl-ea1e66d89d5f

Sadiq Khan standoff with MPs over 'cash-strapped' Transport for London's refusal to help foot bill for £80m Parliament Square pedestrianisation to boost security... even though it was HIS election pledge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10522789/Sadiq-Khan-clashes-MPs-80m-Parliament-Square-overhaul.html

Education

Anti-racism campaigners slam 'disturbing' rules banning teachers from 'left-wing brainwashing' pupils over topics such as Black Lives Matter as teaching union says political impartiality in the classroom won't help children learn
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10527869/Campaigners-slam-disturbing-rules-banning-teachers-left-wing-brainwashing-pupils.html

Storm Eunice

Eunice aftermath rocks Britain: 250,000 homes in South are STILL without power, train networks are paralysed and now England will be hit by SNOW - with bill for damage set to hit £500m
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10529955/Eunice-aftermath-rocks-Britain.html

All trains cancelled in Wales after red alert issued over Storm Eunice
https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/17/all-trains-cancelled-in-wales-as-red-alert-issued-over-storm-eunice-16122723

'Huge whoosh' as O2 roof 'ripped off' by Storm Eunice - and venue 'could be closed for months'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/huge-whoosh-o2-roof-ripped-26270098

Covid damage

Pret a Manger in cash call on shareholders as finances under pressure
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/18/pret-a-manger-future-in-balance-cash-call-covid

SAGE doom-mongers claim next Covid variant could kill a THIRD of infected people
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10527921/Now-SAGE-warns-Boris-weeks-bonfire-Covid-rules.html?ito=email_share_article-home-preview

Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to cut 65,000 civil servants over three years after Covid and Brexit saw the number of Whitehall workers soar
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10529591/Jacob-Rees-Mogg-wants-cut-65-000-civil-servants-three-years.html

Half of Britain's workers eye new jobs in 'Great Resignation'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/17/half-britains-workers-eye-new-jobs-great-resignation

Grooming Gangs

Grooming gang that systematically raped a 14-year-old girl and 'robbed her of her childhood' in West Yorkshire is jailed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10528587/Grooming-gang-systematically-raped-14-year-old-girl-jailed.html

And finally:

Primark and Greggs clothing range to launch in Edinburgh-see the whole range here
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/best-in-edinburgh/shopping/primark-greggs-clothing-range-launch-23126006