April fool day in advance. Lol. Will they run better than the english ones?
The cynic in me feels the government has seen the profit to be made and decided they want this as opposed to actually trying to help the people by reducing prices
Rail service on this island is overpriced and unreliable
I’m a little confused. Aren’t England, Scotland, and Wales all set to have their train services nationalised in 2023 under the Great British Railways banner? Will Scotland’s nationalised railway be transferred to GBR in 2023? The article doesn’t mention it at all.
I find it strange that the government says “we have this public service but we are going to pay a company to provide this service that we own all the infastructure for”.
The worst one IMO is the water board. You need to pay a private company to supply your water but you dont even have a choice. At least with gas and electric you ~~have~~ had different companies competing. I can’t decide that I’d rather switch from Anglian water to Severn Trent etc. Im stuck with Anglian water so it might as well be nationalised.
The trains aren’t much different. You as a consumer dont have much choice over which train operator you use. They have a monopoly on certain routes.
If you as a consumer have no choice over the provider of your service then it should be nationalised. Im hoping this energy crisis makes us rethink nationalising that too. I was with utility point now ive been shafted with EDF and all the switching sites have ceased switching. Ive essentially had my provider selected for me by the government. Its pretty much pseudo nationalism anyway.
Sensible Legislation Being Introduced In Scotland That I Wish Were Also Being Implemented in England No.117.
April 1st? Man that would be an *awful* april fools day joke if they’re all like “sike” on the day.
[This Wendover productions video](https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k) does a pretty good job of explaining why privatisation of the UK national railways was always going to end this way.
Even Thatcher thought it was a bad idea….
How can the UK get rail so badly wrong almost all the time, being the very people that invented steam locomotives and modern day rail transport? Look at japan, take some ideas from there!
Who is going to pay the price for nationalizing the train service? How much will it cost taxpayers?
When a rail company in England goes kerflooey and there is no immediate replacement, the government temporarily takes over the service until a new company has come up with passenger and revenue figures they won’t be able to fulfil, just to get the contract. Uncoincidentally, most problems that occured on the service magically disappear when the government is made to operate it.
will they be better or worse, only time an a few million will tell
Didn’t stop the police from fining the woman who was eating a kitkat while driving several years ago – though of course she wasn’t a celebrity
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April fool day in advance. Lol. Will they run better than the english ones?
The cynic in me feels the government has seen the profit to be made and decided they want this as opposed to actually trying to help the people by reducing prices
Rail service on this island is overpriced and unreliable
I’m a little confused. Aren’t England, Scotland, and Wales all set to have their train services nationalised in 2023 under the Great British Railways banner? Will Scotland’s nationalised railway be transferred to GBR in 2023? The article doesn’t mention it at all.
I find it strange that the government says “we have this public service but we are going to pay a company to provide this service that we own all the infastructure for”.
The worst one IMO is the water board. You need to pay a private company to supply your water but you dont even have a choice. At least with gas and electric you ~~have~~ had different companies competing. I can’t decide that I’d rather switch from Anglian water to Severn Trent etc. Im stuck with Anglian water so it might as well be nationalised.
The trains aren’t much different. You as a consumer dont have much choice over which train operator you use. They have a monopoly on certain routes.
If you as a consumer have no choice over the provider of your service then it should be nationalised. Im hoping this energy crisis makes us rethink nationalising that too. I was with utility point now ive been shafted with EDF and all the switching sites have ceased switching. Ive essentially had my provider selected for me by the government. Its pretty much pseudo nationalism anyway.
Sensible Legislation Being Introduced In Scotland That I Wish Were Also Being Implemented in England No.117.
April 1st? Man that would be an *awful* april fools day joke if they’re all like “sike” on the day.
[This Wendover productions video](https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k) does a pretty good job of explaining why privatisation of the UK national railways was always going to end this way.
Even Thatcher thought it was a bad idea….
How can the UK get rail so badly wrong almost all the time, being the very people that invented steam locomotives and modern day rail transport? Look at japan, take some ideas from there!
Who is going to pay the price for nationalizing the train service? How much will it cost taxpayers?
When a rail company in England goes kerflooey and there is no immediate replacement, the government temporarily takes over the service until a new company has come up with passenger and revenue figures they won’t be able to fulfil, just to get the contract. Uncoincidentally, most problems that occured on the service magically disappear when the government is made to operate it.
will they be better or worse, only time an a few million will tell
Didn’t stop the police from fining the woman who was eating a kitkat while driving several years ago – though of course she wasn’t a celebrity