Selling off the UK rail franchise has been a disaster

[Beanz]

It does not seem to have worked in any tangible way. I speak from a region frequently cut off when the sea washes away the track at Dawlish meaning the whole of Devon and Cornwall lose the rail connection to London, Brum and the rest of the country. For businesses here it can be very damaging. I can rarely justify it. If I have a job in London It's never long enough notice to avoid paying astronomical prices for a poor service.


https://buyingbusinesstravel.com/new...ail-franchises

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...system-say-mps

[Master]

Tory ideology is to privatise the public sector whereas Labour want to renationalise it and it would pay for itself. Sensible and logical.

[Gandalf]

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.

[Master]

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.

[walrus]

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

[Master]

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.

[Dark Lord Al]

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.

[Master]

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.