But roads are set to be packed as Brits return home from family Christmases and commuters do their best to avoid rail strikes.Network Rail announced another day of rail closures due to strikes by the RMT.
Services ended early on Christmas Eve as workers began two days of industrial action over pay offers considered inadequate by union members. Most rail services do not run on Boxing Day, although operators including Merseyrail and ScotRail provide limited routes.Poor weather, the financial pinch and rail strikes are set to wreak havoc on UK retailers.Meanwhile the Met Office's Rachel Ayers said blizzards could hit high ground in parts of Britain.
She said: "Showers, which will be wintry in places, will continue across Scotland, Northern Ireland and far northern England, locally these could be heavy with hail or a thunderstorm possible. "Any accumulating snow will be mainly over high ground where there is a risk of blizzards. Showers [will ease] into the later part of the afternoon.
Where is the poor weather beautiful in Kent.
You can't spend what you haven't got
Rail strikes probably the biggest factor well done all you strikers for striving up put people out of business this year . They have a lot to thank you for selfish. B”””ards! Then again all union fuelled to give us the next labour Gov.Looking forward to 2026 their bankruptcy yr
That isn’t what the car parks are saying! Glass half empty again LBC.
Its vital that those that can spend in the shops do! Many shops & suppliers are on life support! That's many, many thousands of jobs & reduce choice! I get the reasons & its optional, but lets not pretend the economy is able to weather this storm, its not!
Do it online
I know there is this cost of living crisis but u wouldn’t have thought that this week in Sheffield especially Meadowhall u couldn’t even move it was that busy and having to que to get in shops 🤷🏼♂️
Can't afford it and not well. Stay home
In fairness these “sales” aren’t really are they? At least not anymore…
Meanwhile the Royalist/Monarchist scum are all off on a Boxing Day Hunt!
Not to mention trickle down is not working, but hey all those off shore accounts are booming…
Rail strike? 😂
This proves the fundamental truth, if people don’t have money to spend they can’t buy the products businesses sell and money doesn’t circulate, you can’t keep squeezing down wages across the board and not expect this!
Peoples value of money has become more focused and have woken up to buying something in a sale you wouldn’t have ordinarily purchased is not a saving but a cost.
Regarding clothing stores, I've long been convinced there's factories just making cheap tat for sales. Never see this stuff in regular hours, just appears as a bargain
Most passenger trains don't run on Boxing Day even if there wasn't a strike
100% Conservative constructed ruin of our beloved UK. Simples!
Rail unions have a lot to answer for , retail , hospitality, and sporting events will suffer in a day that’s normally busy . Who picks up the cost for the businesses that will now struggle
If there is no money, there are no bargains!
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