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News - 9 September 2025

RMT team provides a masterclass in social media sparring

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The Canary

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It happens every time. The RMT (or any union, really) goes on strike and its social media gets absolutely clogged with some right prime specimens of ‘That One Fucking Guy’. You know the type – flag emoji after the name, selfie taken just that wee bit too close to the face, Tory councilor for Floppingham-Basset.

Fortunately for us here at the Canary, that also means we get to play one of our very favorite* spectator sports – union dunk watching. And hoo boy, the RMT social media team is on fire this week. Let’s take a look.

First up, a reminder of why the strike is happening in the first place. Transport for London (TfL) and tube bosses are refusing to take RMT demands on fatigue management seriously. A tired driver is a dangerous driver: it’s true on a road and its true in a multi-tonne train, people!

And an illustration of just how bad the shift patterns can be:

Next, a few of calls on Labour’s own London mayor Sadiq Khan to show a glimmer of solidarity with the workers:

And again from RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey, for the people in the back:

Just who is it that runs London again?

Who can lick a boot the cleanest?

But now, what we’re all been waiting for: takedowns of the kind of twonk you only get on Twitter (you try and alliterate with ‘X’…I’m waiting).

One particularly annoying kind of anti-union whattaboutery is pointing towards another profession and saying ‘Well those guys have it worse’. Fortunately, solidarity is its own reward for the RMT team:

Seriously, ‘my employer’s meaner than your employer’ is secondary-school-level shite. Point the finger at the bosses:

Everyone’s a critic, especially if they can’t reason their way through ‘fewer staff=more work’:

Poor old Rupert

Former Reform MP Rupert Lowe is better known for being the guy that even Reform UK find it difficult to get on with. He spends his time dreaming of politics slightly to the right of Britain’s favourite right-wing populists. However, when he’s got nothing better to do, Mr Lowe appears to enjoy bombing hard on Twitter.

Here he is calling to put the drivers out of work:

Here he is failing to understand that the underground is more than just the train drivers. They’re tired, we’re tired, Rupert just won’t stop:

And here he is failing to catch a tube or even a single break:

Rupert darling, you do realise that tweeting isn’t you job, right?

RMT: the right kind of flags on the streets

Thanks go to the social media team at RMT for brightening up our day here at the Canary. Dropping the mic on right-wing dickheads always brings a smile to our faces. Even more so if said dickhead is the MP for Great Yarmouth.

Signing off here with the kind of flags we actually like to see lining our streets (and a bonus cameo from J Crombles):

*Close runners up include ‘Spot the exonerative tense‘, ‘Find the Reform MP who turned up to parliament’, and Roller Derby (seriously, give it a look, it’s great).

Featured image via the Canary





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