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    Nach der Verabschiedung des Verstaatlichungsgesetzes durch die Lords sollen die Eisenbahnen wieder in öffentliches Eigentum übergehen


    Nach der Verabschiedung des Verstaatlichungsgesetzes durch die Lords sollen die Eisenbahnen wieder in öffentliches Eigentum übergehen

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rail-nationalisation-uk-labour-bill-lords-b2650736.html

    Von SinisterPixel

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    16 Comments

    1. Spare_Dig_7959 on

      The next Tory government will sell any successful state run enterprise.

    2. Salty_Nutbag on

      Boo. Hate the Lords.
      Unelected and not accountable to the people.
      Needs urgent reform.

      Wait, what?
      They did a good thing?
      Again?

    3. Beaky_Knucklewart on

      Unrelated, but I’m entertained that the Independent thinks the bill needs royal ascent. That’s a bit of a climb.

    4. FelisCantabrigiensis on

      That’s all sorted then. The railways will all work much better in the near future.

    5. Bokbreath on

      Privatize
      Sweat the assets and squeeze the juice until it is on its last legs
      Return to public ownership and let taxpayers rebuild
      Repeat

    6. davus_maximus on

      Good. First unification, then scrap the entire Byzantine fares “system” in favour of something that isn’t a blatant racket.

    7. Fox_9810 on

      They’ll not get rid of the underlying train operators so the problems won’t go away. Hell look at Northern – arguably got worse.

      This isn’t anti-bringing them into the public hands, more we should totally cut away the corporation’s that are just going to have all their shares bought by the government

    8. MousseCareless3199 on

      The last thing I associate arms of the state with is efficiency.

      I’m not holding my breath that this will make the trains better, definitely a feel good piece for the comrades though.

    9. ElectricalDevice9653 on

      So it turns out that private companies are all about the money and not the service?

    10. Common-Ad6470 on

      Now do the same for water, gas and electricity utilities so we can stop the insane bills and total mismanagement.

    11. RedRoryPS2 on

      When are we going to get it right that nationalisation in the UK just always makes things run worse. The amount of times I’ve been late due to the nationalised part of the railway recently. I dread to think what it will be like when the trains are nationalised.

    12. Vargrr on

      I like the sentiment as there is no place for private companies to be running utilities or monopolies.

      But….

      Unless they also pass a law preventing their re-sale back into private hands for peanuts, all that’s going to happen is the public take ownership, fix it, then the vultures will come in again and asset strip.

    13. Downtown_Letter_9853 on

      Wonderful. British Rail again. Just how we all remember it.

      Slam door trains, more strikes and frequent horrific rail accidents soon then.

    14. GhostRiders on

      I won’t be celebrating any time soon..

      Unless safe guards are put into place that means the next Government can’t tear it all down then it will be for nothing.

    15. SpiritedVoice2 on

      Nobody’s mentioning fares, will this have any impact on them at all? 

      You’d hope it would reduce them but Avanti made about £13M profit last year off of 26M journeys. Does that mean my £200 London to Crewe return will now only cost £199.50?

    16. K0nvict on

      Hopefully we can see a huge decrease in fares. Crazy to think it’s cheaper to get a flight across the continent then it is to get a train a quarter the way down the country that is usually late

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