It didn't work the last time so...........

[GentlemanJim]

It didn't work the last time so what makes them think it will work this time?

Could it be that the tax payer has poured £ billions in to the network, for that debt to be wiped out and the friends of our Tory masters reap the benefits..... I despair!

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[Nortube]

It always seems to me that any form of privatisation is designed to benefit the rich and has nothing to do with benefiting the tax payer who are effectively the ones that are giving all their hard earned money to the rich!

I just don't get that when a company (or whatever you like to call it) isn't performing, why it needs to be privatised to supposedly make it improve. Why not just get somebody decent in to run the company and crack down where necessary.

About the only part of privatisation (as when BR was privatised) I think I understand is that when lots of money is needed for investment and that privatisation means that the new owners are the ones who will have to put the money up front rather than the government. Sometimes things can be an improvement and it's not always easy to compare 'like for like' - e.g. the run down BR service of the 80's with dropping numbers of passengers and poor service compared to the NR service of today with a vastly increased amount of passengers that is in itself causing problems and poor service.

Whatever happens, whatever the company / line of business, it is usually the customer that suffers with a poorer more expensive service whilst companies rip them off with (usually) enormous profits. It's not even as if the money's British as most of everything and virtually all services, seem to be run by foreign companies that see the Britain as a nice little earner.