Michael Smith, Ilkeston + ShareThey should never have been privatised in the first place.
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Kenny Burnett, AberdeenEnough of this rich man’s train set.
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David Willetts, BradfordThe rail network should not be run for the profit of shareholders. By definition this money isn’t spent on services.
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Charles Boylan, PrestonBritish Rail was much better. You don’t realise what you’ve got till its gone.
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Duncan Baillie, KilmarnockI have never felt that a national railway network should be in the hands of separate companies. The service varies so much between them and there is little co-ordination.
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Ula Taylor-Reilly, PortsmouthAffordable travel is a necessity in terms of practicality and quality of life. As a student, despite my costly 16-25 railcard, I find train fares crippling and limiting.
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Bring Back British Rail
3 days ago
On the day rail fares rise by a whopping 2.6%, we've launched a new online action with our friends at We Own It. Please take 2 minutes to write to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to demand he seizes this moment to end rail privatisation altogether.
📝👉 weownit.org.uk/demand-public-ownership-our-railway ...
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I thought it was the rail companies who imposed fare increases, not the gov.
By the time HS2 is finished no one will be able to afford to use it.
Even if you don't use the trains you are still paying for them out of your and my taxes. So if you want a rail service that is worth its money get it back into public ownership and gas, electric, water, and oil. Britain was great at one time.
Coverage of our action in The Canary: www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2021/03/01/campaigners-criticise-broken-privatised-system-as-rail-fares-...
Coverage in Left Foot Forward: leftfootforward.org/2021/03/rail-fares-rise-by-2-6-as-government-set-to-freeze-fuel-duty-for-10th...
So true werst thing they ever did just like they did when they closed a lot of the lines
Well us British Rail workers told everyone not to privatise the railway and everyone laughed at us, well now you’re paying !
it was the same under BR price rises and the same shit service ,except its worse under franchising
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Bring Back British Rail
3 days ago
On the day rail fares rise by 2.6%, please take 2 minutes to write to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to tell him:
💷 Scrap the fare hikes.
📉 End the contract chaos.
🚆 We need public ownership now! ...
Demand public ownership of our railway
weownit.org.uk
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YES!!!!
Coverage of our action in The Canary: www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2021/03/01/campaigners-criticise-broken-privatised-system-as-rail-fares-...
Coverage in Left Foot Forward: leftfootforward.org/2021/03/rail-fares-rise-by-2-6-as-government-set-to-freeze-fuel-duty-for-10th...
What a disgrace the railways have become, after scaring off 95% of regular users during the pandemic, they are now about to increase fares by 2.6%. They have risen by 40% in the last ten years, meanwhile, fuel duty on cars has been frozen for 12 years, is it any wonder we have clogged up roads.
More profit for the bosses and shareholders, who dont give a damn about us. We are the mugs who just keep paying and they know it
Signed
I joined BR (Southern Region) in 1970, Fare rises were an annual unwelcome event then, and the main reason was not to invest but to suppress demand so that investment became unnecessary, The Mandarins of Masham Street ruled fiercely then!
In public transport terms the tories have always been a disaster as the pander to the greed of their cronies. Buses and trains are a disaster across most of the country. Marples was bane enough but this shower are the worst of the lot.
How would a publicly owned (Government), railway prevent price hikes like this that are set by the Dft (Government)?
Sent off a letter, no doubt it will be ignored...
Don't just stop with trains gas electric buses nationalise the lot
Signed
Bring back the British Rail we use to have before privatisation such as Virgin Trains etc.
What the point it’s private profit for shareholders customers don’t care
I'd love to sign but your computer won't accept my EU postcode. Pity cos I'm a UK citizen and have a continuing interest in UK affairs.
Sadly, would the Government pay heed to the way privatisation has caused overheads to spiral out of control?
Good luck, we're approx 100,000 billion miles off from having anything like a socialist left wing agenda anywhere near Number 10 with Kier Starmer being an absolute wet wipe. Great stuff. Can't wait to get back to commuting and spending 3/4 of my wages on rent and travel. FUN FUN FUN.
Nationalise the lot. Privatisation of Rail has failed dismally.
The current situation is totally unacceptable, it's time it was scrapped.
Signed and sent
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Bring Back British Rail
1 week ago
Privatisation costs more! 🚍💷💸 For passengers and for tax-payers, so it’s no wonder it exacerbates poverty. Hear former UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston talking about his research into the human rights impacts of the UK’s deregulated bus system at Get Glasgow Moving’s public meeting tonight at 7pm 👇👇 ...
Public Transport: Privatisation & Poverty w/ special guest Philip Alston
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What's the problem with saying Special Reporter? We are not in France 😏
The whole railway should be brought back into public ownership under British rail. Railways are supposed to be for the average people not the rich
www.facebook.com/199676720083396/posts/3951806331537064/ Cut costs with jobs so the greedy profiteers can make more money!!! I knew the tory scum wouldn't get rid of privatisation, too much money in their pals pockets at stake!!!
Yeah and they still plan to continue to freeze fuel duty for the private motorist in the next budget.
All this government efforts in trying to make rail privatisation work have proved to be unsuccessful yet they always seem to try again.
Privatisation was an EU directive so that they could buy into our industries. Now we are out we should be able to sort out what we have left.
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Bring Back British Rail
1 week ago
Now more than a year late, the recommendations of Keith Williams’ Rail Review are due to be released this Thursday 25 February 🚊 The Telegraph claims the Review will offer “fresh proposals designed to convince private train operators there are returns to be made.” Why do we need to beg private companies to run our railways for us? It's time to put people before profit and #TakeBackOurTrains ...
Reforms aim to derail renationalisation fears
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The telegraph would support any idea to keep our railways in the hands of racketeers even if it cost the taxpayers £billions. Profit before service.
Bring in the Fat Controller from Sodor 😉
Time to renationalise the railways so that we have a coherent service and investment of profits make sure that the north and west have decent trains and carriages.
The Torygraph proposing people before profit ! ? Typical oxymorronic crap spouting from these pages. Wot have they been payed to write this, we all know public services should never be put in the hands of Capitalists their remit is to bleed companies dry and throw away the husk.. The Torygraph should investigate the criminality of their masters in Westmonster.... Grrrrrrrr
Network rail has just undergone a reform under the guise of putting passengers first, it has been set up in a way pretty much the same as pre nationalisation with east coast and anglia put together like the eastern region now why would this be happening? Could they be looking at operator and maintainer all in one- if only I had crystal balls....
If giving British taxpayers money to French and German railways is right I'll eat my hat
Look at what just happened in Texas with a deregulated energy market. There simply isn’t any advantage to privatization. It’s a get rich scam.
They'll decide to get one of their mates as a "consultant" in and get past d lots and lots of money and still come up with the same old claptrap.
we get what we vote for
Private enterprise my arse, they have all been subsidised to the hilt by the taxpayer since day one.
Telegraph does not support the people!
There are only returns to be made when big fat subsidies are provided.
Private companies have created chaotic rail services
Bring back British Rail!
Like the utility companies should never of privatised the railways
I thought the companies contract when to 2026
I don't fear renationalisation. Daily Telegraph was run by Conrad Black.
The Tax Payer has been subsidising this while the profits still go to the share holders. Bring it back under National control.
Loads more taxpayers money down the pan, and we don't even own it!
I'm sure Matt Hancock's got a mate who used to own a hairdressers who's perfectly capable of handling a multibillion pound contract to run the railways 😟
I'm fearing another botched privatisation not nationalisation
Now, when was the last time I decided to try and persuade a tiger that I really wouldn't taste very nice?
Flogging a dead horse springs to mind.
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Bring Back British Rail
4 weeks ago
Today we celebrate the Transport for Wales Rail franchise being brought back into public ownership by the Welsh Government after 25 years of failed privatisation 🚉✊ Why don't The Scottish Government and the UK government learn from their example? Stop the bailouts to failing private companies 💷💸 It's time to #TakeBackOurTrains! ...
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I can answer that, easily... It's because the central government gets these things called "political financial donations" from people like Sir Richard Branson who own the companies that get the public transport franchises. And these "donations" are not officially linked to a contingency of "I give you this money, you give me an advantageous business opportunity" as that would be "bribery" which is a criminal act... So nobody openly say what the donations are for or why certain people get the government issued contracts, but we all know what's up!
FFS, dont let the SNP near the Scottish trains, every thing they go near ends up a disaster.
Agreed Bring Back British Rail not individual companies
Debbie Jones one for Gwyn
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It's the Wales and Borders franchise. This highlights the undemocratic nature of the UK. Why should the Welsh Assembly have control over many services that run mostly through England, (Hereford to Manchester, Liverpool to Chester etc) who have no electoral means to influence rail policy, it was not acceptable for the situation to be reversed so why is this okay? Last year had Welsh MPs voting on England only legislation again, which is utterly corrupt. Time the UK broke up into it's 4 nations, or an English parliament led railway is set up.
They made a right bollocks of it though
All monopolies should be in public ownership because they only serve to exploit people when in private ownership. Necessity of services demands that the public sector run it for the public and serve everyone. Services include train, busses, gas, electric, water, post office and telecommunications.
Delighted that Wales has taken back control of the railways which serve us in the Welsh Borders as well.
Welsh government can’t organise a piss up in a brewery
Time they brought it all back in the public sector, the only people it benefits is the rich investors who care little for the public, what next, gas, electric, post office, the list is endless !!
When the ECML franchise was briefly back under public control things started to improve but the Tories have to see a profit being made and it has to go into a private pocket.
'Wales & Borders rail franchise taken into public ownership' Here's the Railway Gazette International's coverage www.railwaygazette.com/wales-and-borders-rail-franchise-taken-into-public-ownership/58456.article
8 years living in maesteg and working in Cardiff. Used arriva every single day. What a pile of crap that company was!
Mae hynny'n newyddion gwych... Dim mwy o breifatisation ConSelfServaTory
Great news, now get on with it for the rest of the UK.
The myth of competition in public services. We see it not only in transport, but in education and many other sectors. Unnecessary.
Economy of scale, one single management structure no shareholders
Well done Wales!
I’d like to see the Intercity Swallow livery back on all intercity trains in the country (including the sleepers) and bring back restaurant cars too.
Arriva we're really good though
Can't be any worse than the customer service under Arriva, eh Anthony AntDav? 🗝
How does this work for trains covered by the franchise that run in England? I am fully behind nationalised railways, but wonder how the Welsh government can have authority over trains that run in England?
The private monopolies are excellent at extracting money from their customers whether it be trains,electricity or water etc but hopeless at running the services because they are just not interested at all
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