Wouldn't it be funny if they did decided to go for government mandated liveries for each operator/contract but as to do it on the cheap looked at what branding they already owned, and as such decided that given they acquired the SWT brand that would be one of the pilot areas. Imagine SWR having to rebrand as their predecessor, well at least there would still be a few trains that wouldn't need painting!
Naturally the one thing I hope doesn't happen is that if/when fares are "simplified" that doesn't mean big price rises for leisure travellers, we want people to use trains and getting people to use the quieter trains is important to getting rail back on track and as such there will need to be tickets with restrictions that are significantly cheaper.
Lastly I hope the Government don't enforce some sort of "Buy British" nonsense, I fully support rail equipment (track, trains, signalling Etc.) made in Britain so long as the quality is there, it would be monumentally stupid to buy rail equipment that is absolutely crap just because it's British (of course other countries (I'm looking at you Italy (AnsaldoBreda) can produce equipment of amazing crapness).