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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by ed_elliott_asc on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:28AM (#27219761)
It is the same people who worked for the franchises working under government control - it is the senior management who go but the actual doers are the same.
Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by croon on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:05AM (#27220068)
Incentives on one is to maximize profits, which in a monopoly means just extracting more money and spending less.

Incentives on the other is electability (or ideology, perhaps rare), which at least has the possibility of meaning doing a good job.