Thursday, January 03, 2008

RAIL NIGHTMARE: LET'S MAKE OLD BUFFERS PAY

What a success selling off the railways was, eh? God help us. And all those passengers paying through the nose for the privilege of being stranded over the New Year.

I don’t want to go all political, but … there are some things that should belong to the nation. A national rail network is one of them (water and power are two others, but more of that some other time).

I’ve even heard Tory stalwarts bemoaning the Thatcher rail sell-off; or giveaway, as I prefer to call it.

Mrs Thatcher, as I prefer to call her, and every surviving member of her government should be made to travel long distances by train every day; even if they’ve got nowhere to go.

That would soon see a smart redistribution of wealth.

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