Christine Kelly, PortsmouthNationalise all public services now.
David Britten, FarnhamHow can the rail companies claim to be private when they can’t function without taxpayer subsidies?
Daniel Rodger, BirminghamPrivatisation has gone too far. Distributism advocates that small companies be private, but large companies to be run by employees.
Elizabeth Moulding, CramlingtonFor the people not private profit.
Charles Burgess, EastbournePower to the people.
Sandra Hurst, SuttonThe private companies are only interested in profit, not the customer. Stop all subsidies and contracts to them and bring back British Rail.
Bruce Van De Gevel, HuddersfieldAs the privatised industry is in receipt of massive public subsidies, it should be returned to the public.
Fiona Kearns, WakefieldWe were told that privatisation would bring consumer choice and price competition. It hasn’t. It’s more expensive and grossly inefficient. Only large corporations benefit.
Anthony Collins, LondonWe are paying for major infrastructure upgrades through the public purse anyway. Privatisation just wrings the passengers for profit.
Iain Fergus, GlasgowDaily commuter – twenty rail trips a week.
Brendan Sullivan, St Leonards-on-SeaOne rail network with proper funding and trains on time. Let’s get it.
Deb Tetley, LeedsLets take back our trains and make them work for us, not private companies.
Maryam Shakiba, LondonRailways are a public service and should be state run and not for private profit.
Stew Baddiley, KempstonSoon.
Mark Donoghue, DartfordPublic services are not for profit.
Tim Mourant, BristolSNCF and Deutsche Bahn can bid for British rail franchises to help fund their state-run railways yet Directly Operated Railways aren’t allowed to bid for East Coast.
Rupert Rooksby, NottinghamSort it out Scameron.
Neil Dilworth, PrestonJust look at Berlin at least. It shouldn’t be such a struggle to travel around the country and that value for our input shouldn’t be negotiable.
Jayne Fowler, AshfordThe Labour Party have got to back this and make it happen.
Diana Baur, LlangollenEducation, the Health Service and Railways should be publicly owned.
Don Beattie, MiddlesbroughAbout bloody time, every rise in rail fares is subsidising profits for these fat cat owners in their own countries. Re-nationalise now.
Alexander Wallace, SheernessLet’s go back to when the trains were on time and not in the private sector, with all the investors taking all the money out of it.
Peter Brewster, St NeotsHaving effectively stolen my share in this national company, the government sold it off to people with enough money to spare, so where is my share? We want it back.
Phil Owens, LiverpoolPrivatisation has been a ridiculously costly experiment. Everything on the railway now costs multiples of its value due to profits for long chains of contractors.
Christine Dellen, TodmordenIt would be great to get rid of the mess we’ve got now, and have a unified service again.
Chris Kellett, SheffieldThe railways were built for the public to use. We should be the ones to make the decisions etc.
David S., Milton KeynesIt should never have been privatised, like all other public services – Water, Gas, Electricity, which were all sold to foreigners who made a fortune off the backs of British people.
James Lewis, ChesterAll for this. People not profit.
Graham Pascall, MilngavieIt’s not just the public face of the railways that requires attention but the massively inefficient situation behind the scenes in signalling design etc.
Rob Bowles, ManchesterA profitable asset for the UK not shareholders.