Renationalising The Trains

[Eric Cartman]

We are basically stuck with the private train operators functioning as a sort of its this or you can get the bus ......with the train companies coining it in

Plus loads of people making money out of shares and dividends

The train service nationwide can be shut down as it is

I would nationalise everything if it was financially viable

Tbh your second paragraph is a bit off the mark. A significant amount of the operators are directly owned by foreign governments. The irony isn't lost that Pipster thinks it's somehow more efficient for the French or German government to run rail services in the UK, as opposed to the UK government and that somehow that makes railways adds accountability.

[pipster]

Tbh your second paragraph is a bit off the mark. A significant amount of the operators are directly owned by foreign governments. The irony isn't lost that Pipster thinks it's somehow more efficient for the French or German government to run rail services in the UK, as opposed to the UK government and that somehow that makes railways adds accountability.

I thought I said should be modelled on the Japanese way they have done it. Where they have both a standard JapanRail option or you can ride the bullet train run my a company for extra money - that gets you there quicker. The choice is with the customer.

What I certainly dont want is a German state owner train company running UK trains and making profits that go to another country and we definitely dont want British Rail one out all out trades unions trying to hold the country to ransom - like they did in the 70's and like they have tried to do for the last couple of years here - and failed - as working from home has beaten them.