Nah. On every measure - safety, comfort, time keeping, rolling stock, investment and choice the system got better as a result of privatisation. (View Post)

The Indus Valley civilisation had a very good sewage system more than a millennium before the Romans and two millennia before us. (View Post)

Because your points are - as usual - pointless. It doesn't matter how much of a basket case BT were or are. Privatisation gave us choice. Something that you continue to exhibit a warped hatred f… (View Post)

Trains were invented and run very successfully by private individuals and companies for over a century and then fucked over by the nationalised operation who shut down most of the lines and created a… (View Post)

The point being they were an even bigger shit show when they were in public hands. Privatisation gave us the ability to move away from them. I had Mercury and then Virgin (and a hugely better service… (View Post)