Thread: Labour backs plans to return railway network to public control - Guardian/Observer
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Default Labour backs plans to return railway network to public control- Guardian/Observer
On 01/07/2012 09:27, e27002 wrote:
On Jul 1, 12:29 am,
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On 01/07/2012 00:15, Charles Ellson wrote:

Network Rail is a State Monopoly in everything but name. The Railways
are as Government Controlled as they have ever been. Why would the UK
go back to the dark days of British Railways? Better IMO to allow
operating companies to buy the infrastructure. Then drop franchising,
allow history to take its course (given neccessary regulation and
grants for desirable, but loss-making services).

Friedmanite dogma is a good example of Einstein's statement that
insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a
different result.
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Myth, after all, is what we believe naturally. History is what we must
painfully learn and struggle to remember. -Albert Goldman
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