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Post by zeopold on Jun 24, 2022 21:53:16 GMT
...jail time...company bosses Mark Connolly, managing director of MAC Machinery Services, received a nine-year sentence (reduced to seven on appeal) for his part in the Tebay rail disaster. Here's hoping he was bummed by loads of well hung blokes... unless he wanted to be, obvs |
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Jun 25, 2022 13:48:38 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 25, 2022 13:48:38 GMT
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Post by politician2 on Jun 25, 2022 15:10:35 GMT
What’s that you were saying Pol?
Rail firm paid shareholders £500m before asking workers to take wage cut
CEOs of the six biggest train companies also took home a combined salary of more than £5m in 2020Private sector companies have responsibilities to generate profits for their shareholders. They also have responsibilities to the people who work for them, and the challenge is to balance those priorities to create the best possible outcomes. An argument can certainly be made that rail should be fully renationalised in order to take profit out of the equation. The problem is that I don't recall British Rail being any better than what followed after privatisation. (Strictly speaking, I'd say that some things subsequently got better and others got worse.) |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 25, 2022 16:31:35 GMT
It's just a scam
There's no way those CEOs deserve those bonuses or the regular large salary increases
They're all operating in a monopoly situation
The passenger should not be funding bonuses for what should be a subsidised part of the travel infrastructure
The whole thing is both immoral and counterproductive
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Post by zeopold on Jun 27, 2022 11:31:44 GMT
CEOs of the six biggest train companies also took home a combined salary of more than £5m in 2020 Private sector companies have responsibilities to generate profits for their shareholders. When they milk essential national infrastructure for profit they are parasitic bandits. |
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Post by politician2 on Jun 27, 2022 13:16:26 GMT
Private sector companies have responsibilities to generate profits for their shareholders. When they milk essential national infrastructure for profit they are parasitic bandits. Not if they can deliver services better and at a lower cost than British Rail could. The debate about nationalisation hangs entirely on this point. |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 27, 2022 13:23:50 GMT
When they milk essential national infrastructure for profit they are parasitic bandits. Not if they can deliver services better and at a lower cost than British Rail could. The debate about nationalisation hangs entirely on this point. They've failed on both those measures |
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Post by politician2 on Jun 27, 2022 13:35:29 GMT
Not if they can deliver services better and at a lower cost than British Rail could. The debate about nationalisation hangs entirely on this point. They've failed on both those measures I haven't studied this issue in any depth, but if that is the case then it's time for a rethink. |
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Post by zeopold on Jun 27, 2022 14:54:17 GMT
When they milk essential national infrastructure for profit they are parasitic bandits. Not if they can deliver services better and at a lower cost than British Rail could. LOL. That wasn't the purpose of privatisation. It was to enable greedy ****s to fleece their victims. |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 27, 2022 19:30:16 GMT
Even the Barristers have walked out...  A decade of public sector cuts come back to bite the Govt's bum Who'd have thought it? |
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Post by smogquixote on Jun 27, 2022 19:53:03 GMT
They've failed on both those measures I haven't studied this issue in any depth, but if that is the case then it's time for a rethink. It cost me £30 to get a one-way ticket from Leeds a few weeks ago, it’s time for a revolution!!!!! Edit: and I live in Middlesbrough ffs! About three years ago you could get a taxi for a bit more than that. |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 28, 2022 5:53:00 GMT
The benefits that would flow from subsidised rail and bus transport are many and various
It's what most other European countries do
Quite rightly
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 28, 2022 5:53:34 GMT
Barristers and now, possibly, Doctors Well done Tories  |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 28, 2022 8:09:15 GMT
The best of Mick Lynch...
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Post by politician2 on Jun 28, 2022 10:52:53 GMT
It cost me £30 to get a one-way ticket from Leeds a few weeks ago, it’s time for a revolution!!!!! Edit: and I live in Middlesbrough ffs! About three years ago you could get a taxi for a bit more than that. The complexity of ticketing has certainly become an issue. If you buy the right ticket – as in a very specific ticket, purchased well in advance – rail travel may now be cheaper than ever. But if you miss out on that specific ticket, or have to vary your journey, you can end up paying through the nose. |
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