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RMT and ASLEF? Why? Rail workers' pay has fallen behind just like everyone else.
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@grolfe3210 On the contrary. The state is very good at running things. It was the total failure of the private sector to run procurement in the Crimean War which led to the establishment of the UK's Civil Service - which supercharged the running of the British Empire and, in due course, the welfare state. It was the state which resued the railways from chaos and inefficiency - which has since been returned by privatisation, gave us clean water and effective sewage disposal (ditto), standardised electricity and gas production, gave us a universal postal service, telephone coverage, universal schooling and so on. Public Transport was much better when it was municipally run. The NHS, before it was "reformed" by Kenneth Clark and his successors was one of the world's most efficient and effective health care providers. Compare it with the top heavy US system. Private sector efficiency is largely myth based on ideology.
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Yeah! Cos, after privatising everything in sight, the UK is doing SO much better than France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway etc where they didn't. No? The Channel Tunnel came in at twice its original cost, by the way. In Edinburgh, the private sector built a tram system which cost twice the original estimate for half the project and it was delivered two years late. You're the one living in a fantasy world, chum. PFI is just a way of cooking the books to look as if we're not spending money when we are.
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That's very similar to what people were saying about Labour in 1919 and Labour's vote actually decreased in 2024, as did the Liberal Democrats'. The way they are currently going about government, they will certainly be even less popular in 5 years time and get an even lower vote, losing even more seats to independents and Greens. Most of the Labour and Lib Dem gains from the Conservatives were by very small margins and, because of the silly arithmetic of FPTP, it will only take a relatively small Tory recovery to reverse the current situation.
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