Grant Shapps DOESN’T have ‘no role’ in rail strike – he’s apparently interfering merrily
Grant Shapps: if he’s forced to resign over this, it won’t be the first time. You can bet he’ll protest his innocence this time, too.
It seems Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has been lying to Parliament – after he said he had no role in the rail strike, it has been alleged that he’s the one stopping agreement from being reached.
TUC chief Frances O’Grady said contracts mean the 15 train operators are unable to negotiate pay, conditions and pensions of 40,000 striking RMT workers without Shapps’s approval.
If they did try to reach a deal he could hit them with financial penalties by making them foot the bill for any extra wages costs.
This is based on legal opinion commissioned by the TUC from employment lawyer Michael Ford QC, who studied rail contracts to reveal a secret Dispute Handling Plan that rail operators must honour.
He said:
“These provisions mean train operators do not have freedom to negotiate matters which have given rise to the current dispute.
“It is the SoS, and not the operator, who has overarching direction and control of the strike.”
Of course, lying to Parliament remains a breach of the Ministerial Code that could potentially force an MP to resign.
So Shapps is now facing demands to actually do his job by resolving the rail strike in a way that ensures continued safety for passengers and security for workers – and then to resign from his job on grounds of corruption.
Source: Grant Shapps ‘misled public’ over claim he has no role in train strike – Mirror Online
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His whole life is built on lies. His pyramid selling swindle was in the name Michael Green. He has other aliases. I prefer to call him **** Face. AND he has blood on his hands: how dare he even show his **** face after the revelations seven years ago https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/28/grant-shapps-resigns-over-bullying-scandal
In August 2018, the Financial Times reported that it had discovered a “secret pay deal” between Shapps and OpenBrix, a British blockchain property portal company. The story alleged that Shapps would have received a payment in cryptocurrency tokens with a future value of up to £700,000. Shapps resigned from OpenBrix and from his position as chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on blockchain which he had founded. Subsequently, Jo Platt, an opposition politician, called for an enquiry into Shapps’ conduct, although Shapps maintained that he had confirmed with the standards commissioner that he was not required to register the interest, and that he had recorded the conversation with the relevant official.
Aahh another rampant fascist tory liar doing what his master convict little fascist dictator duck johnson constantly does every time he opens his mouth – he lies! Shapps too must be charged with lying to Parliament but then ‘Parliament is now so corrupt the boys lying is viewed as just another trivial matter which has no relation whatsoever to so-called democracy!’