| Topic: | Re:Ruth Cadbury's Call to Nationalise the Railways | |
| Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
| Date/Time: | 29/01/20 13:17:00 |
| As I have said before, have Ruth Cadbury or her party's Shadow Transport spokesman made any effort to talk the RMT out of the strikes that have crippled SWR's services? She seems to be falling into the trap that suggests the government can run railways better than railway companies. She must have a short memory if she doesn't recall how awful the service was in the days of British Rail. SWR and its passengers are also suffering from the failures of Network Rail, which was nationalised by the Blair-led Labour government. "She said: ‘‘South Western Rail have failed passengers for too long.." I don't know her definition of "too long" but SWR have only been running the service since August 2017. |