UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-rail-minister-peter-hendy-fired-gareth-dennis-engineer-safety-concerns-trains-london-euston-station/

Posted by magicwilliams

5 Comments

  1. This is so entirely on brand for the sort of person that Kier Starmer thinks should be running the country. A Government of all the Karens

  2. Brizar-is-Evolving on

    There’s another employer that comes to mind which has a reputation for putting its engineers (as well as its suppliers) under pressure not to whistleblow safety and QA breaches.

    Boeing.

    And we all know what the consequences have been for airline passengers over the last few years as a result of Boeing’s atrocious safety culture. People have died needlessly. Is Labour trying to replicate that?!

  3. You have to ask why his employer would willingly do work with a company they’re slagging off in public.

    Euston can be fixed by making the data available on realtimetrains more widely available.

    Where a train is is not decided five minutes beforehand, yet Euston present it like it is.