Neil":3sw3tcvg said:
xerxes":3sw3tcvg said:
Don't worry, like everything else that's been privatised, it's sure to be cheaper and better than ever afterwards! :roll:
Just like water, gas, electricity, then. Hang on a minute...!
Don't forget trains. Some clever cloggs decided that not only should it be privatised, it should also be split up because "competition and choice is good for the consumer".
Yeah, because if you don't like who does the Liverpool-Manchester train you can just take your custom to the Ayrshire Coast Line instead. Makes perfect sense. :roll:
End result is that the quality of service as varied as the number of train companies, and whenever two of them share a section, they spend months arguing over which one of them pays for repair and upgrades. Wot with it being a profit based enterprise the only guarantee is they'll pick the cheap and nasty option.
The only service that works properly is East Coast Main Line, which is nationalized so shhhh don't tell anyone, or it'll end up flogged at a car boot sale and then rented back to us, just like the APT project.
I could keep going but it just makes me really angry thinking about it.