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  • It may be a step back, but if that’s the only way to make it more user-friendly, and less expensive, then let’s do it.

    Raymond Greenwood, Bedford
  • Everyone, including those in high places, knows it’s the right thing to do.

    Margaret Croson, Rutland
  • The disconnect between infrastructure and operations and financial inefficiencies across the unnatural boundaries is plain daft.

    Brian Reid, St. Neots
  • We should re-nationalise as it is cheaper than state subsidy of private companies who, with a profit motive, will fail the people in providing a good service.

    Steven Gibbons, Folkestone
  • All essentials, transport, education, health and energy, should be nationally-owned concerns.

    Antoinette Sym, London

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Rail strikes: Top train firms paid shareholders £800m last year

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CEOs of the six biggest train companies also took home a combined salary of more than £5m in 2020
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UK taxpayers money subsidised railways during Covid privatised by Conservatives. The same private companies paid masses of money during Covid to shareholders in foreign countries who themselves have public services! No wonder Britain is bankrupt and has the highest rail fares but the lowest state pensions in Europe.

The First Great Western service from Paddington to Penzance is a disgrace. Small, crowded trains with limited luggage room, often late, or cancelled. And that's on a good day! Now we learn their shareholders are given Millions and their executives paid large sums to run this joke of a service. Full nationalisation and large government investment in electrification , a motivational career structure to build the sustainable railway we need for our future.

This is why the so called transport minister will not get involved in talks because a lot of the shareholders are Tories when are people going to wake-up

Sleaze affecting the railways. Gross capitalism.😡.

How many shareholders are Tory members???????

Yes give it back to British Rail and do not pay compensation. They have had their millions over the years.

This would never have happened when British Rail existed!

Shareholders are paid after profits, that's a pretty standard thing in any organisation. Therefore it's a malicious act on behalf of the companies not to budget for a pay rise annually within their financial projections. There isn't "no money for a pay rise", they simply do not want to give it to us but, like politicians, manage to give themselves a pay rise.

My dear chap, please do not go against the received opinion championed by all Fbookers whose knuckles scrape the ground then they walk : "Rail strikes are a plot by the unions and the Labour party to bring down the Tories".

Makes my blood boil when I hear the politicians saying that the last thing we need is the railservice we had in the 70s and 80s. I remember, despite the fact we had very little money, being able to go on the trains when I was a child. The cost now is beyond the reach of most people and is making it too expensive for many to work so yeah, going back to the 70s and 80s would be preferable to the 21st century.

Still can't believe 14 million voted Conservative in 1992, knowing that they intended to dismantle what was arguably the most efficient nationalised railway on the planet

Used to be if you had shares you took the good and the bad, now shareholders are protected by governments

Trains must be for the public and not a money making profit orientated business. (But so should water... every year that price goes up too!!)

Bring it back to Britain 🇬🇧

Only in a tory uk

It's called leveling up

Add fule to already stick that not fair as unist not let members vote on the proposed deal wich is pose be Union job pluse bulling tactics the union is doing

How much of the government bailouts went straight to the shareholders????

Utterly disgraceful!

Disgusting.

They're a disgrace

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It stinks

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The Rail Privatisation Scam 🚊💸
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The Rail Privatisation Scam

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After taxpayers were scammed out of tens of millions of pounds, the train company responsible has just been rewarded with a lucrative new contract – definitive proof that the rail privatisation rack...
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This is shocking. Even by the new threshold of what is OK…you know, illegal parties , non Dom’s tax cuts, P and O, PpE scam contracts, selling off public service broadcasting, ….

The sooner the better

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their all scamming the taxpayer its disgraceful

De-privatise the railways now.

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🥳 ScotRail re-nationalised! It becomes the 5th UK franchise now back in public hands 🚉 With proper investment from The Scottish Government, we have the chance now to bring down the cost of fares, and to expand and improve railway services across Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ... See MoreSee Less

PlayScoRail taken into public ownership
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As a railway employee (just) government ownership will do none of what's been said here. If anything it will make things worse. The people who know how to do things properly are tied by budgets and targets from their employer. Under government ownership they will always take the cheapest option that will look good on PR brochures but won't last.

This is bad news for Scotland, will go the same road as Prestwick Airport , Ferry’s , Education , Police Scotland….

Unfortunately, we don't currently have a Scottish Government willing to do that. Indeed, it's just sanctioned a huge fare rise and services are being drastically cut next month.

I started my career with BR and 30 years later hopefully will be back working under BR again soon.

Proper investment - what does this mean? How much do you think is needed and where? What happens if the Government cannot afford to keep the standards up to expectations? Would they lose an Election over the issue?

Hoping they will now stock egg sandwiches on the buffet trolley

If we recall the lies 30 years ago from John Major and Transport Secretary John MacGregor that privatisation of British Rail will deliver improvements in services and lower fares.....!! Then the first laugh we had was the Stagecoach South West Trains fiasco. Everything wasn't moving so well after that.

Now the nats will use this for Free Rail Travel for under 25s to Bribe for more Votes

They couldn't run a toy train set never mind a country's rail service. Destination disaster.

What a pity Starmer won't commit to the same in England

This is how everything should be transported ,instead of by lorries that ruin the roads !

Back under the tories who privatised it in the first place...I'm lost for words 🤔

A giant disaster waiting to happen.! !

It took a very long time to realise the privatisation scam...

The trains in Wales have been in public ownership for about 5 years now.

Scot Rail was allready in public handsjust not the British public as Abello is part of the NS or Dutch state railways. As is Arriva of DB or the German railways.

Successive Labour governments haven’t done much.

A smokescreen, not real nationalisation

Shame they are running such old stock

Northen rail still a mess

A directly operated franchise is some way off public ownership, all the problems caused by the shambolic privatisation of BR will still exist !

This is a double edged sword. Bringing back the railways into public ownership is fine provided they stay in public ownership. What's actually happening here is that the govt is bailing out failed train franchise operators with taxpayers money. Once they're commercially viable I fear they'll be sold off again. Effectively we're privatising profit and nationalising losses at public expense.

Will the Scottish Government be buying the trains from the private leasing companies who own them?

RIP Scotrail. Everything the snp touches ends up a steaming pile of 💩

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Govia Ltd: the biggest rail corruption scandal since privatisation 🚆💸 As Grant Shapps looks set to award the disgraced company a new six-year contract, read what a terrible mistake this is in the Association of British Commuters' new blog 📰
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Govia Ltd: the biggest rail corruption scandal since privatisation

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According to press reports yesterday, the Department for Transport is preparing to award disgraced company Govia Ltd a new six-year contract for Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR). It follows the publi…
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Shame on Grant Shapps for awarding a six-year contact to the disgraced private company #Govia which is *still under investigation* for financial malpractice 💸 Our legal team have despatched a letter to the Serious Fraud Office to demand they intervene 👇 www.bringbackbritishrail.org/tsgn/letter04_250322.pdf

The whole privatisation of the railways was and is one huge fiddle. I cite the huge cost overruns of the Great Western Electrification, and HS 2? There should be a root and branch investigation by the fraud squad into industrial fraud on that one.

And of course Public ownership never wastes money or has overruns etc etc etc

This rancid Tory government associated with rampant corruption ? Surely not. Errrrr........

Be so much better if we just had one company that ran service in the south, South East & South West and same for North West, North & North East. Similar to Network SouthEast days.

So what is anyone going to do about it? Absolutely bugger all. Award contracts to your mates, cheat, lie ,fiddle expense accounts, claim for second dwellings and lie (again) yet they know that they are untouchable. Shamefully, there is no viable option as Labour are a joke and do not represent the working class any longer. Not since Tory Blair emerged as the new shining light, where; “Things Could Only Get Better!” Tosspot!

Is it called "Govia" in honour of Michael Gove?

Oh, the politics of greed

Corruption rewarded by the corrupt..

Okay. What Tory has shares in this.

When is going to stop,mistake after mistake!Vote Tory,you'll pay the price,especially with that W in charge!!

There'll be 'no evidence ' no doubt.

There’s more than Govia that are corrupt.

Shameful.

What did you expect when they named it Govia. Another Tory toad ...

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Is just Scotrail that's getting nationalised?

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Absolute 'kin disgrace

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🚆 The Department for Transport has fined #Govia £23.5m for financial malpractice whilst running Southeastern 💸
Yet it's still considering giving the same private company a new contract to run rail services on Thameslink, Southern & Great Northern? Enough is enough. It's time to #TakeBackTSGN
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Govia Rail fined £23m over undeclared taxpayer funding

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The train operator says it "accepts" the fine after failing to return over £25m in taxpayer funding.
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One wonders what a TOC would have to do to become unfit to run a franchise. Previously, DoT were of the views that if a firm had its franchise removed it had to surrender all the others. The firms get around this of course with their independent shell companies - but the parent companies are the ones driving the bus.

……..and when it’s some poor bugger claiming a bit too much benefit they don’t call it ‘undeclared taxpayer funding’ do they?

At one time these things would illicit a shrug and a resigned sigh that nothing can be done. These things are now a daily occurrence across the politic landscape and I sense a palpable sense of anger boiling over, that finally enough is enough, as evidenced by the comments beneath this post.

Fined them, then let them carry on as usual. Ffs

Are we getting close to the revolution yet? Give it a bit longer, once the cost of living overtakes worker’s static wages.

It’s bit like “the Apprentice”….no candidates you’d trust to buy you a sandwich, but one of them has to win.

Fraud on this scale should result in prison sentences. It never does.

Thatcher's government sold the skeleton of a our country. The very things that support it in the world & people still think she was great? It's beyond me!

An office in Newcastle, owned by private investors with company bases in Singapore amongst other countries. Good old fashioned Tory values. What could possibly go wrong?

This contract was terminated in September 2021 and Southeastern is now run by the department of transport, you're a bit late with the news.

And that fine is paid from...taxpayer funding... How ironic.

23.5 million fine for stealing 25 million? What a bloody joke!

Please tell me govia is not Owned by Michael gove

Fucking corruption in plain sight they just don't give a monkeys about us

Must be run by that idiot Gove! 🙄

Another nose in the trough.

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