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This from the BBC today: BBC NEWS | Business | East Coast rail to be state-run
Should we re-nationalise the rest of the network?The government says it intends to take the East Coast rail service, run by National Express, into state ownership.
The troubled rail franchise, which is expected to have lost £20m in the first half of the year, is suffering from falling passenger numbers.
Ministers have refused National Express's requests for its contract with the government to be renegotiated.
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen 1:1
Not yet.
The nation should be allowed to sink considerably further into the mire before anything is nationalised in order for the workforce to realise just what a dreadful mess the whole country is in.
The potential problem of unions and their members trying to maintain the status quo regarding their jobs and pay can already be seen by the demand for the government to “protect jobs”.
The government must not do so.
Market forces MUST be allowed to shape this country, its society, and peoples mind set.
We MUST learn to live within our means and that requires that people should be taught just how meager those means actually are.
It is not going to be a nice lesson for a great many people to have to learn but have to learn them they will. What was done during the Thatcher “get well” government will seem like a Sunday School party concerned with what’s coming down the pipe.
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Yes the lesson would be painful but very worthwhile.Originally Posted by The Bear
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen 1:1
I reckon we should but I fear that a short term gain to a private company (I wonder what ministers will end up in the boardrooms) will be at the expense to the wider value of providing a service to the nation of mass transit at cheap prices instead of forcing people onto the roads and non existent bus services. My opinion is that all the branch lines should be reinstated, it would cut down on road usage but road usage brings money into the exchequer as well as their friends in the motor manufacturing and oil industries.
Yes, but different national rail companies for England, Scotland and Wales.
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