Here in the UK the Govt is pressing ahead with plans to re-privatise the East coast main line despite recent reports showing that it is cheaper and more profitable than any of private franchises.

Given the chaos in the Department of Transport which led to the catastrophic mess that was the last franchising round for the West Coast line, you have to view these new attempts to sell the railways off as being a pig headed perversity driven by an ideology entirely blind to real world consequences

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