DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
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Hundreds of irate punters jammed the BBC’s switchboards this week to vent their ire at the fact that a flagship programme had been destroyed because the dialogue was rendered completely incomprehensible and the central figures appeared to be mumbling absolute gibberish.
Well that’s the parliamentary channel for you…
I jest, of course. There’s no way hundreds of people watch the parliamentary channel.
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