Image via WikipediaSince the railways were nationalised people have seen their fares soar but the service hardly improve at all. We have also seen subsidies increased to such an extent that the railways are now costing the taxpayer more than they did when it was in public ownership.It makes sense to me that the railways need to be taken back into public ownership. Firstly from an economic point of view it doesn`t make sense for the taxpayer to subsidies a service to such an extent that it is costing more than when the taxpayer actually owned it. Secondly railways are crucial to the green agenda.We need to get cars and freight of the roads and onto the cleaner railways and we will not do that if private companies are taking money out of the industry and making rail travel and transport more expensive than it should be.
In the nineteen twenties Winston Churchill campaigned for the railways to be nationalised because he thought they were crucial to the nations future. What was true then is true now and we should take the railways back into public ownership at the earliest opportunity.
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