michaelhill94
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This is my first ever post, so sorry if this is all wrong.
I have always found 'privatisation' a complete misnomer. Arriva, Cross Country and Chiltern Railways are all owned, entirely, by the German government. They use the huge profits from their ownership of British railways to fund their own public sector. Merseyrail is 50% owned by the Dutch Government as is Northern Rail while the Dutch have complete control of Anglia. Southern and London Midland are 35% owned by the French government while First Trans-Pennine express is 45% owned by the French. Can any supporters of rail privatisation tell me why, if public sector monoliths are so inefficient it is public sector monoliths defeat the competition for franchises when it is left to the market to decide?
I have always found 'privatisation' a complete misnomer. Arriva, Cross Country and Chiltern Railways are all owned, entirely, by the German government. They use the huge profits from their ownership of British railways to fund their own public sector. Merseyrail is 50% owned by the Dutch Government as is Northern Rail while the Dutch have complete control of Anglia. Southern and London Midland are 35% owned by the French government while First Trans-Pennine express is 45% owned by the French. Can any supporters of rail privatisation tell me why, if public sector monoliths are so inefficient it is public sector monoliths defeat the competition for franchises when it is left to the market to decide?