>>1606577>All it shows is how out of touch you socialist faggots are.I'm not a socialist but neither are Britain's passenger railways free enterprises.
pre-nationalisation our railways were shareholder funded. Post-privatisation they are STILL taxpayer-funded.
pre-nationalisation the entirety of the railway infrastructure was the sole ownership of the railway company. Post-privatisation we have govt-controlled tracks, bank-owned rolling stock and TOCs owned by the german and dutch govts., who each in turn take a slice of the pie whilst hiking ticket prices and they still get a ton of money out of the govt coffers.
You can call me a "socialist faggot" but we still have nationalised railways in a sense, only it's not our government, or as a consequence, us, who are the beneficiaries but the German, Dutch, French, whoever governments. So you're also a socialist faggot if you support this system, just a socialist faggot who likes taking it up the arse from JFs.
Not only that but you're a complete muggins if you think privatisation is the sole reason for increased ridership over the past 30 years (though the TOCs would love you to think that) and that it isn't pretty much entirely dependent on the increase in population and the massive increase in the cost of living in city centres that has forced people out of the cities and into commuter towns, and the inability to drive a car into a city centre thanks to a massive increase in motor traffic and all the congestion, delays, fees etc associated with that. (remember the first lockdown is how busy our roads were during the early 90's i.e privatisation)
If you really hate nationalised railways so much then pretty much the only system you can support is the American system because what we have is a complete clusterfuck of inefficiencies that favours nobody but foreign governments and banks. Which is why the Conservatives did it in the first place.
