“Rail unions say the sell-off is in any case ‘a national disgrace’ and that French, German and Dutch state-owned railways have already made huge inroads into the UK’s privatised franchises.
The RMT union said this ‘proves once again that the Government are happy to have state control of our main inter-city routes as long as it’s not the British state.’” RIP Bob Crow
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