Dean Cordwell, Stockport + ShareI believe that such a compulsory national service should be run by the people and their representatives, not by businessmen for private profit.
Dean Cordwell, Stockport + ShareI believe that such a compulsory national service should be run by the people and their representatives, not by businessmen for private profit.
Bring Back British Rail shared We Own It's post.
2 days ago
Another brilliant video from our friends at We Own It, shot this morning outside the Department for Transport when we submitted our Care2 petition with 120,000 signatures to Keith Williams head of the government's new rail review. #TellKeith you want public ownership! gov.uk/government/consultations/williams-rail-review
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Share this video to #TellKeith his review must recommend public ownership! The government has announced the biggest review of our railways since privatisation. They've put a man called Keith Williams in charge. We know that public ownership is the only way to fix our broken railways. ...
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Andy Fudge, this tickled me, just the name
Let’s hope Kieth Williams is not a latter day Beeching.
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Bring Back British Rail
3 days ago
Great coverage in today's Daily Mirror of our Care2 petition to Renationalise the Railways signed by 120,000 people, which we're taking to the Department for Transport this Friday 18th. Join us at the Bring our railway into public hands! Petition hand in at 10am and add your own signature here: care2.com/renationaliserailways ...
British Rail petition signed by 120k demands railways return to public ownership
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The railways are already owned by the public. The train operating companies are not so, once and for all, for this supporter of your cause, get the distinction right.
Seen a good coverage on ITV by Adam Shaw last night called Trouble on the Tracks
https://www.teleboy.ch/en/tv-guide/itv1hd/10854249/trouble-on-the-tracks-tonight
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It's the tracks/signalling equipment that are fucked and causing the cancellations. The companies operating the services are useless but this is a deeper problem, there's no quick fix.
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Bring Back British Rail
4 days ago
Help us reach 120,000 signatures before Friday! On Friday 18 January at 10am, we're taking our Care2 petition to Renationalise our Railways to the Department for Transport to submit as evidence to the Williams Rail Review. We must ensure public ownership is on the table. ...
Sign Petition: Renationalise our railways
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Renationalising the railways would lower fares, improve working conditions and provide a better organised service. The majority of (119381 signatures on petition)Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google PlusShare on Linked InShare by Email
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can't get out of europe, fat chance of getting BR back LOL.
Iv'e signed this petition on a previous occasion. The longer it takes the more we subsidise another country's fares as our go up, and up, and up. Maybe we should get back in our cars and totally clog all the roads on our way to work or home or wherever people have to travel. Come on people stop using the railways they will learn we are not to be trampled on.
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Why the full postal address?
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Wasnt the rail system on the brink of disaster when they privatised the network look what happened when railtrack started, had like 4 or 5 major train crashes
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My line has cheaper fares (adjusted for inflation) than it had under BR, it’s clean and reliable and a great service. I don’t use the Railway that much otherwise and if people want it nationalised again that’s fine but I have few problems with it. We have one of the busiest networks in the world which inevitably leads to problems. I can see issues with dividing railtrack from the operators but not entirely convinced that denationalisation would improve everything.
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Signed it. Only need 360 odd signatures now.
I read somewhere that privatisation is excluded from his remit
Clicking on the link just takes you to a generic care2 page. No petition.
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It seemingly a lot more complicated than just switching over from privitation to national rail Well it will not happen in my life time, so i am resigned to AS YOU WERE ./ ARE. LOL
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With the Tories in power no chance!
This is why they won’t let Jeremy in!!!
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I think people need reminding of bureaucracy running anything .British rail manky falling apart rolling stock,timetable non existant,filthy stations ,not much different from now.Prices were high then, just like now.Nationalisation will cost the taxpayer a fortune
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Bring Back British Rail shared Association of British Commuters's post.
1 week ago
Will the Department for Transport's latest review of our railways be the chance for a #RailRevolution or just more government whitewash? We're joining forces with the Association of British Commuters, We Own It and Care2 to demand that public ownership is on the table. Read this brilliant blog post for all the details... ...
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URGENT: It is still unclear whether the Williams Review will consider public ownership! Read more about our investigation here and please join us at the DfT on Friday 18th Jan to demand a Rail Revolution and full transparency from the government.Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google PlusShare on Linked InShare by Email
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Send your own views before deadline this Friday 18 January 2019 https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/williams-rail-review
Whitewash sanitised for " Don't blame me Guv " Grayling
If this is a report commissioned by the Tories of course it won’t recommend nationalization.
Bound to be a whitewash - rarely has a Government ever admitted they got something so badly wrong. If Grayling can award a shipping contract to a company with no ships and no track record, what chance do the railways have?
One thing to remember with government is the old saying he who pays the piper calls the tune
Sadly I think you already know the answer to that question, it’s just going to be more of the same “sticking plaster” gimmicks that will amount to next to nothing
Whitewash
This review is a joke. Who is behind it? None other than Failing Grayling who last week refused to meet with experts in Cheshire who are concerned about unstable ground conditions - salt mines, brine fields and gas storage underneath the HS2 line. Just look at the terms of reference. "The review was established to recommend the most appropriate organisational and commercial frameworks to support the delivery of the GOVERNMENT'S VISION for the railway." (NOT nationalisation then!) It says it will look at the whole of the industry but will not include the following: public investment decisions made through existing franchise agreements railway funding 2019-2024 commitments (Control Period 6) High Speed 2 and other major projects spending decisions made through the Spending Review 2019 THIS FARCE is no better than the so-called consultations carried out by HS2 UnLtd. It's being done so they can say they have done it. As is the case with HS2, they will ignore any suggestions that contradict their dogmatic er - vision!
It will be nothing but a distraction just like all the other grossly expensive“investigations”. Diversion tactics rule OK?
It's a complete whitewash; look at the question it asks!
A picture of Corbyn wondering why he isn't elsewhere, sat in a high chair, overseeing a theoretical discussion about "potential". But not contributing. And he's still the lesser of two evils by a significant margin :/
It's a white wash from a nasty, greedy, lying government busy transferring public money in to the greedy back pockets of the private sector.
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Bring Back British Rail is with Association of British Commuters and 3 others.
3 weeks ago
Coverage on BBC News of our Rail Revolution: National Day of Action today calling for a #FaresFreeze and radical reform of our broken privatised railway system. ...
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I just hope you Tory voters are satisfied.not just with B R.but everything else they’ve sold off.you are now paying for something that once was yours.
My understanding is that Renationalising the railways... which I’m strongly in favour of... is only possible outside of the EU.
I feel certain that there could be a legal challenge to the profiteering which is so obviously going on. Who gave the authority in the first place to sell off an asset which belonged to the British people, against the will of the vast majority of the British people. EU Directive 91/440 in 1991, that's who. No british people had any say in the matter except perhaps John Major and the Conservative government at the time. Time to take back what is legally and morally ours.
Here is the puzzle. How does Chris 'failing' Grayling manage to put one foot in front of the other when it's such a complicated manoeuvre?
There is no point in prattling on about it and whether or not it’s allowed or precluded by the EU. BR was often total shit and my line has considerably improved after privatisation so there is no universal panacea. All the moaners will continue to commute so why on earth would the companies NOT put the prices up? If on the other hand commuters refused to pay or travel the whole thing would be sorted in a week. Politics is the same, we shove a cross on a bit of paper and then moan about what we’ve done for a few years before doing it all again.
How do they justify a rise ABOVE inflation?
it is plain wrong when we need to encourage people to leave their cars and travel by rail that they are scared off by yet another exortionant ticket rise. A rise to pay inflated bonuses and share dividends that should go to reduce ticket prices. Bring back BR indeed, a joined up network working for our people.
I see theories about the EU preventing our rail system being nationalised but there's no such thing. It's our own political dogma and their excuses. It didn't prevent the last Labour government from taking East Coast Main line back into public ownership.
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