Here is one bus driver's moving tale of why he is being forced to strike against the wicked capitalistic bus passengers who are oppressing him so much.

"Brothers- there I was driving my bus in the swealtering heat of the hottest summer for 300 years and behind me stood the Strapper, beating me with this rough leather strap in order to make me work harder.

Behind him, seated in their air-conditioned luxuary upon oppulantly upholstered seats sat the bus passengers of Sheffield drining their vintage Champagne and exploiting my labour. Their selfishness of being chaufered around was only possible by the cruel lashes comming from the burley strapper who was hitting me harder and harder. And there was I so poorly paid that me kids have to work down a mine 18 hours a day, with no shoes on their feet and only bread and dripping for sustinance.

Then I spotted at the very back of the bus (on the most plushly upholstered seat of them all) Barroness Thatcher. There she was quaffing vintage Champagne and shoveling silver spoonfulls of Buluga Caviar into her great gaping gob and cackeling like the old witch that she is. Her claw-like fingers were dripping with diamonds, emeralds and rubies. I could not help but notice her hidious hooked nose and her mad staring eyes. And all I could think of was my poor kids working down a coal mine 23 hours a day,l being whipped by a Strapper, no shoes on their feet, with only rancid dripping to eat and perhaps a dry biscuit on Christmas Day if they were lucky.

As Thatcher shoveled whole lobsters and claw fulls of truffles into her mouth she shouted to the Strapper "hit him harder strapper - make him work harder". And as the harsh lashes from the strap fell upon me I saw a vision through my windscreen. It was the noble, chisled face of Comrade Scargill and he was talking to me in his soft Yorkshire brogue - "The drivers united shall never be defeated. The drivers united shall never be defeated"

And it was then Brothers that I decided I must strike against the wicked pus passengers of Sheffield and struggle with my comrades to gain some dignity.
That is why Brothers I ask for your support in our struggle"

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Ill spare you a bit of my champagne is it gets too hot for ya ;)

actually I agree, everyone should strike in fact. just till they get out of iraq and tell bush to go **** himself when he asks us to bomb iran with him in the next few weeks.

The worlds gone to pot m8, it aint just you. go to downing street with your plight and shout "YO BLAIR" , you may find him cow tailing to you and give you all your pentions back ;)

Yeah **** it, lets all strike untill we get a communist regime that pay sh*t 'ouse cleaners the same as skilled professionals and let our streets become decrept so the unemployed and unions can be funded with all the wealth, then let the middle east and terrorists conquer western europe!!

your not an israelie buy any chance are you ?
we cant aford to get our house in order because we wouldnt be able to afford the armoury for the big push :D and the rebuild that we will be paying for when the word pension isnt even in the dictionary anymore.

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Is it the "who can spell most words wrong today" competition? oops, I mean kompeetishun.

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More hillarity this week as a 'scab' is kicked half to death crossing the picket line and his wife and kids have to flee a burning house in the middle of the night.

Join our jolly strikers for more fun and frollics in Sheffield's very own long running farce On The Buses.