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    Default Re: Selling off the UK rail franchise has been a disaster

    Tory ideology is to privatise the public sector whereas Labour want to renationalise it and it would pay for itself. Sensible and logical.
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    Default Re: Selling off the UK rail franchise has been a disaster

    The UK rail system is scarily bad. I was shocked when I discovered it was something like 25-30 pounds to get from the airport to my hometown. It's not a long journey by any stretch of the imagination. Fair enough the train was in good condition and it wasn't overcrowded but it left a bad impression. I was thinking 'Is this country going to bankrupt me?' It is cheaper to travel to other countries than get to far flung parts of the UK by train. Traveling to the UK sucks because of the transport costs and also hotel costs. It is all very unreasonable and the quality of hotels is usually fairly poor. Unless you pay 250 pounds a night as I did once in London having got a bus there by mistake. A reasonable part of London where the people are rich and few of the people working in thd area could ever afford to live there. If I write a best seller and have Amazon get the word out I might go back to that hotel and take the train instead of the bus.

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    Chris Grayling is a fuck wit of a minister who privatised every department he goes into including employment with work programmes, probation and continue to keep the piss poor franchise that run the trains. He is an evil bastard and waiting in the wings to become prime minister.
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    Off topic but I took a train in China from a small city to Beijing. It was a 19hr trip. The train had those sleeping cars, looked like our trains I see in the movies from the fifties. Dinner service to your room. Really cool way to travel

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    Default Re: Selling off the UK rail franchise has been a disaster

    Quote Originally Posted by walrus View Post
    Off topic but I took a train in China from a small city to Beijing. It was a 19hr trip. The train had those sleeping cars, looked like our trains I see in the movies from the fifties. Dinner service to your room.
    Bet it was cheap as chips to ride on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by walrus View Post
    Off topic but I took a train in China from a small city to Beijing. It was a 19hr trip. The train had those sleeping cars, looked like our trains I see in the movies from the fifties. Dinner service to your room.
    Bet it was cheap as chips to ride on it.
    Cheap as chips, good one. Yes, with the western conversion you don’t need much money to live like a king in China as long as you are not scared to leave the spots that cater to westerners. Master if u are looking for real cheap living I can recommend a few spots in Afghanistan

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    Off topic but I took a train in China from a small city to Beijing. It was a 19hr trip. The train had those sleeping cars, looked like our trains I see in the movies from the fifties. Dinner service to your room.
    Bet it was cheap as chips to ride on it.
    Cheap as chips, good one. Yes, with the western conversion you don’t need much money to live like a king in China as long as you are not scared to leave the spots that cater to westerners. Master if u are looking for real cheap living I can recommend a few spots in Afghanistan
    I have my backup place. India. 29p for a haircut and that is with a tip.
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    Default Re: Selling off the UK rail franchise has been a disaster

    Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
    Tory ideology is to privatise the public sector whereas Labour want to renationalise it and it would pay for itself. Sensible and logical.

    Labour had the chance under Tony B.Liar , they did nothing , its all talk from the opposition fuck all will happen as usual.
    Politian's are all fucking spineless.


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    Default Re: Selling off the UK rail franchise has been a disaster

    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Lord Al View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
    Tory ideology is to privatise the public sector whereas Labour want to renationalise it and it would pay for itself. Sensible and logical.

    Labour had the chance under Tony B.Liar , they did nothing , its all talk from the opposition fuck all will happen as usual.
    Politian's are all fucking spineless.

    So we stick with this lot? They are worse.
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