Bob Crow slams London Tories for their 'Budweiser Baker Street' Tube plan

Tube union RMT today slammed plans set out by London Tories to allow commercial sponsorship of tube stations as “a blueprint to destroy London’'s transport heritage in the name of private profit.” RMT has warned that the plan, already dismissed as unfeasible by tube managers, would see stations renamed and staff forced to wear uniforms branded in the corporate sponsors' logos. The tube map, and the heritage of London'’s transport services, would be ripped to pieces to ram the sponsors' names down passengers' throats.

RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said: "“One minute the London Tories are trying to ban workers'’ rights on the underground, the next they are trying to turn the whole network into one giant marketing opportunity for their big-business backers, we can only speculate what garbage they will spew out next. “Of course the Tories couldn'’t care less about the tube map and the heritage of our public transport services, in their “Greed is Good” ethos Budweiser Baker Street and McDonald’s Oxford Circus make perfect sense."

Concluding Mr Crow said: "“Although tube managers have rightly dismissed the proposal as unworkable that doesn’t mean that these jokers will leave it at that. If they think RMT members are going to parade around as advertising hoardings for a bunch of tax-dodging capitalists they should think again.”"