It's disappointing that the benefits of good investment in infrastructure are dismissed for shorter term gains. Privatising doesn't mean that they will get the mess off their hands, by any means. The impact will spread to other areas that will land on state budgets if privatisation doesn't work effectively. Ad astra per aspera
A lesson though that came in late, as the German process started already before Britain realised rail privatisation. But rail privatisation true-believers will always say that
