@PJM
The rail companies don't actualy give a toss ever. They will continue to fuck with the service they provide as they have a captive audience - who have to pay to "travel" with them. They can also afford to run the company into the ground at the expense of the consumer, employees and the taxpayer as they know that there is no way on earth any country can possibly afford to let a rail network collapse or go to the wall, goverment buyouts will save any collapsing company from actualy going to the wall, and all those with any real say in how the company is run are in no real danger of losing out in the same way as their employees. This has also been seen in the current banking crisis. The demand is for a sort of falsified free market fuck everyone who aint on the top during the more economicaly benificial times and goverment bailouts and socialism extended to companies during the poor times - companies whose directors grunt like the fat little piggies they are at any whiff of anything socialist, or any state intervention that may benifit the poor, or move the country more in the direction of an egalitarian state. Anyway.... rant over
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 16:27, Reply)