TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. This is an advance warning for anyone going to the CC Cup Final at Wembley.

The unions have called a 2nd day 24 hour tube strike during the week leading up to the Wembley CC final designed to cause chaos in the capital for the Bank Holiday weekend getaway.

This strike will begin at 21.00 on Thursday 27th August and finish at 21.00 on Friday 28th August. It's possible it may be called off in the interim, so keep checking the news. My daughter lives and works in London and has first hand experience of the misery, chaos and disruption this will cause.

Anyone travelling to London by rail or car on the FRIDAY before the final or planning to catch a taxi or bus on the FRIDAY before the final when they get to London will be likely caught up in horrendous traffic jams on the roads all around the capital. This includes the M25 and North Circular. Similarly the tube will be slow for the first half of SATURDAY FINAL DAY due to the knock on effect as things get back to normal.

ADVICE IS TO BE AWARE AND ALLOW MORE TIME TO GET TO YOUR DESTINATION OR TO THE MATCH.

Good luck and hope you don't get too affected. Fingers crossed for a strike postponement.

If people were paid properly, this wouldn't happen.

I f**king love a good strike ......Power to the people! ......Wolfie Smith would be so proud! ......Good luck tube workers, I hope you get what you quite rightly deserve.

This won't effect the rugby fans travelling to the capital. We will be either arriving on Friday or Saturday by train or coach and will be using the tube on cup final day .....I think the workers have planned it right and taken the travelling rugby fans into consideration .......Good luck with your endeavour, tube workers!

Fking layabouts

I wholeheartedly agree.

Have you seen the salary of a tube driver? Compare it to an A&E doctor and then tell me they don't get paid enough.

Starting Salary of a Speciality Doctor with the NHS is £37,176
Starting Salary of a newly qualified Tube Driver is £49,673

Also Tube drivers work on average 35 hours per week. Anything more and they get paid overtime.

Yes it would see the print workers in the 80s

Aye but bless em they don't see much sun.
Striking against night shifts Christ, care workers get an extra £1 an hour for night shifts. These shirkers don't know their born.

That's barely minimum wage in that London though. Its £14 a pint and £1.3M for a 2 bed terrace. Poor lambs.

Are you Arthur Scargill's lovechild?

I see you haven't bothered to read the effing detail in my initial post either, so if you are one of those fans who travel down on Friday and get off the train, then you will need a second mortgage for the taxi fare to the hotels after a 2 to 3 hour wait for one. It's likely coach passengers travelling down on Friday will need to get used to staring at tarmac for an extra few hours, cork it up or just pee in their pants.

Also the Tube Drivers get 43 days paid holiday a year too and have been offered an extra 2k per year for working these shifts on weekends only. Unlike police and nurses, they have negotiated above inflation wage increases. In London, it seems the court of public opinion is firmly against them. I wonder why.

Strikers should be regarded amongst people found guilty of treason, bestiality or supporting Hull by all others in society.

I guess you could just walk to your hotel and enjoy the sights on the way ......That's what I'll be doing when I step off the train at Kings Cross ......Do you remember walking, or are you too old to do that now? ......If so, my apologies!

How anybody can support this strike is beyond me! It's disgusting and completely unjustified when you compare it to what people in the NHS/ Armed Forces / Emergency Services have to put up with, and what they get in return.

They should have joined a union.

What a load of complete crap!

Why?

Or they should leave their jobs and apply to be a tube driver, if it's so ing brilliant.

Because they've chosen to do something worthwhile in their lives by choosing to help provide a vital service to the people within their country. By doing so they have clearly wavered their right to a union, I get that, but what they don't want to see is overpaid & underworked prats (who basically push a lever back and forth all day) deciding that their fat wedge salary isn't enough, so they're going to make other peoples lives a misery in the process. It's pathetic. And the attitude from people like you i.e. "should have joined a union" (which is thankfully a minority!) is infuriating to those that sacrifice a great deal more than what they are actually paid to do.

The problem with applying to be a tube driver is that the unions have held tfl to ransom so much that tfl aren't allowed to advertise externally for tube drivers unless they prove that they can't find a suitable candidate internally. Basically the union have them by the short and curlys!

Well said that man.

You're either a wind up merchant or a f8cking idiot.
push a lever backand forth. tell that to the poor c*nt who was blown up in the 7/7 attacks and the drivers who risk terrorist attacks every day in London. Or the poor sods who have to deal with people regularly throwing themselves in front of the trains.
47,000 in London wont get you a mortgage on a shed.
You should educate yourself and not believe everything in the media. Striking is people's right to protect themselves from exploitation. If my colleagues inthe NHs did it more we might save what's left of the NHS. Then everyone would stop moaning about how sh#t it is and maybe notice most of the problems are down to privatisation.
Hope they strike on the 29th and then you can walk and then maybe you'll appreciate them. I 'll be in London for the final and will supprt them whatever they decide.
Go educate yourself you oaf.

Another half wit.......do you believe everything in the Daily Mail. Go educate yourself rather than be spoon fed information. I know it takes effort and requires some intellect but it can be rewarding. Then you can contribute to discussions and form your own opinions.
Try it its invigorating.
Start with some Owen Jones literature then work your way towards Noam Chomsky. There....you can lead a horse to water if they drink it or pi#s in it its up to them.

Looks like the strike might be off, London Transport have postponed the night shift start.

I was going to reply to the working class who have been brain washed by the sun and daily mail but Burtons forearm has summed it up perfectly.

To say they risk terrorist attacks everyday is just stupid they are at risk as much as anyone else in London sounds like you want us to go back to the 70s were strikes solved nothing in the end I was in a union for 10 years and when it came for them actually having to do something they were useless never again would I waste my time with these crooks I also remember my dad who was a docker coming out for a month in support of the miners and the only person who came out of that well was scargill with his nice new house