Selling off the UK rail franchise has been a disaster

**Gandalf** · 08-09-2018 11:34 PM

Eye opening thread indeed.
https://britishexpats.com/forum/goa-...beware-435930/

**Gandalf** · 08-10-2018 12:05 AM

So basically, you are seemingly very misguided on being able to buy property in India, Beanz though you could go for it and expect to lose your money. Meanwhile millions of Indians have been welcomed into the West. Yet I am the racist one? It's very funny how you are always able to spin it like you do.

**brocktonblockbust** · 08-10-2018 07:26 AM

India is extremely racist towards non-indians my own Indian students have told me that. I have absolutely no chance to buy any property in India or get any job offers in India it is very very rare. Also I went through Cox & Kings here in New York City who is handling all of the Visa applications now for the country of India. Cox & Kings makes it so difficult to fill out the application that I with a master's degree could barely way through over 14 pages of visa application questions written in what I would call a very substandard English which contains many contradictions in the meaning of the sentences when you go to answer questions about your purpose of going and none of the situations actually match a mirror tourist kind of thing. Many of those things are rejected 210 US dollars!!!!!

**Gandalf** · 08-10-2018 07:33 AM

That thread is full of angry people who just wanted to go somewhere and retire and got scammed. I think it is right that a country protect its borders, but when you export so many people who also then send money home I think you are having your cake and eating it a bit.

Isn't your wife Indian Brock? Can you stay there? Is that an option for you?

**brocktonblockbust** · 08-10-2018 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by Gandalf

That thread is full of angry people who just wanted to go somewhere and retire and got scammed. I think it is right that a country protect its borders, but when you export so many people who also then send money home I think you are having your cake and eating it a bit.

Isn't your wife Indian Brock? Can you stay there? Is that an option for you?

My wife is Indian yes. Her paternal and maternal grandparents all came from India. However my wife was born in Guyana in South America for your information the only English speaking country in the entire South America. We have been to India a couple of times but she no longer has any relatives that she knows there. She is eligible for a PIO card which stands for person of indian-origin.

X · 08-13-2018 12:25 PM

Anyway, back to the railways ......

I totally agree that the UK railways are totally shit. They are amongst the worst, and most expensive in the world. It's almost as if they try on purpose to annoy their customers as much as possible.

Having said that, I clearly remember British Rail, and they were just as bad. Anybody who says otherwise either wasn't around or is looking back with a somewhat selective memory. BR were totally useless, run by the unions for the benefit of members gold plated pensions. There was at least 20 years when absolutely nothing was invested in the railways, which is one of the reasons they are so expensive now as we are playing catch up.

The railways are truly shit today, but at least billions and billions of taxpayers money isn't being pumped into them and lost each year. We can waste it in the NHS instead

**Master** · 08-13-2018 12:58 PM

Billions are wasted on private train companies some of which are foreign owned and used to subsidise services in their own countries. That is just perverse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45155530

Now let's get back to Brock's wife.