The average East Midlands Railway train carries over 630kg of human grot
Oh, and I'm paying £72.50 for the pleasure of sitting in the vestibule of a train that's less hygienic than the inside of my wheelie bin.
@avon_deer Privatisation promised cheaper, cleaner, more reliable services, and instead they're more expensive, unreliable and a public health hazard.
@tryst @avon_deer it seems we have plenty of evidence that privatization doesn’t work, so why do people fall for it? Do they just believe what people tell them? Does ir trigger selfish tribal stuff when they hear “ahh you won’t have to pay for other people’s stuff anymore!”
I don't think people actually DO fall for it. The neolibs KNOW it does not deliver good public service; but better public service is not the reason they privatise things anyway. It's all about extracting the cash for their mate's interests.
The public at large have long stopped believing that clearly-monopoly public services should be run by a public body calling the shots. But the population here has been so successfully depoliticised that they do not demand it hard it.
“ahh you won’t have to pay for other people’s stuff anymore!”
Maybe. Just don't tell them that they are in fact shovelling more public subsidy into the pockets of rail barons now than they EVER did in the BR days. It's just now it ends up offshore. ;)
@avon_deer @hakirsch @tryst I can't decide whether those at the political top are ideologically opposed to any form of welfare and thus must privatise everything, or that they're so ensconced in their tufton street bubble that they're out of touch with the opinion of the general populace.
Probably a little of both. 🤷♀️
@hrrunka @renbymon @avon_deer @hakirsch Mostly graft and a little "social Darwinism"
@renbymon @avon_deer @hakirsch @tryst With this present lot it may be fuelled a bit by that, but it's mostly about graft - how many billions can they shovel into their donors' pockets...