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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by LatteLazy on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:33AM (#27219159)
The undiscussed upside of this "privatisation pantomime" is that government's are committed to making it work. That means it gets investments and bailouts. Compare that to publicly owned services who get nothing.

The real question here isn't who owns X, it's will the government invest in X...

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by andrepd on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:18AM (#27219710)
It's a classic tactic: underfund government services, then point to how they don't work as a pretext to privatise.
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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by LatteLazy on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:44AM (#27220383)
110% correct. Just in the last 6 months we've seen all the rail companies (supposedly private) bailed out. TfL, the only real public provider was told to cover its bills itself and eventually accepted a loan on userous terms...
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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by pydry on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:27AM (#27220835)
This is happening to the NHS right now.

128k deaths thanks to an overloaded, underfunded system and Boris Johnson's own nurse rage-quits and the conservatives are still gaining electoral ground. It's bizarre.

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