LarryDavid wrote:We've 40 years of evidence that privatization doesn't improve services in the least. But it's not politically convenient to accept that, so we carry on down the path of failure. Being cynical you might assume that this will be an effort to make the public pay for the losses incurred whilst running a rail system operating nowhere near capacity due to covid. I mean there's surely some grift involved, it's the Tories after all, we just haven't discovered what it is yet.davyK wrote:I really don't get the railway thing. If it is privatised and the private sector is such a marvellous thing why the fuck to we have to bail it out on top of subsidising the thing year in year out? Make profit - fair enough - but don't come crying when you can't cut it any more. It's why public transport simply should not have been privatised as we can't afford to have these things fail. If any cunt is still making a profit off that (and I bet they are) they, and whoever commissions them, should be strung up by the balls.
But if they made themselves better off by running the country more efficiently......acemuzzy wrote:Shouldn't have poor people either though. They're also conflicted by yknow not wanting to be poor. Dur.
acemuzzy wrote:Shouldn't have poor people either though. They're also conflicted by yknow not wanting to be poor. Dur.
LarryDavid wrote:Looking like a faintly depressed regional sales rep will obviously help in this endeavor.
Funkstain wrote:Look, no offence to the doctors and teachers here but I've met some right dumdums with some seriously harmful views.
Armitage_Shankburn wrote:No, you're right- shares are now in a managerment service company, not franchise. But it's still a national system now. All risk owned by the state.
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