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#UK starts to #nationalise more #rail #services
"Rail #nationalisation is #popular with the #British #public. Surveys by polling company YouGov show more than two thirds of people support the policy, while fewer than one in eight oppose it.. #Trainservices in #Britain were #privatised in the 1990s.. nationalisation would clamp down on “unacceptable levels of #delays, #cancellations and #waste seen under decades of #failing #franchise contracts”"
#ThatcherLegacy #BigFail 👎
bangkokpost.com/business/gener

Bangkok Post · UK starts to nationalise more rail servicesBy Bloomberg and Reuters

Say NO to shareholder bailout!

It’s outrageous! Shareholders dumped #sewage for over 3.6 MILLION hours last year alone. They’ve ripped out £85 billion from our bills since #privatisation

We shouldn’t have to pay to clean up their mess!

Water campaigners have called for a review of who owns our water to turn the tide on the sewage crisis. 70% of us want #PublicOwnership

Block price hikes & #nationalise #water companies NOW

Sign:

weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop-th

We Own It · Say NO to a shareholder bailout: stop the water bill hikes!

If the Rail Union members had accepted a pay increase with cuts... Pre strikes .... then we would have no ticket staff or Guards on the trains NOW... That amongst other things is being fought .... Our service and it makes us safer ...#nationalise

Ok, fellow #socialist geeks, how do we explain the importance of #protocols over #platforms to non-technical socialists?

I have seen people say things like "it would be better just to #nationalise #twitter" or "#mastodon is for libertarians who fetishise decentralisation", or even just "I wish there was another twitter that didn't have all these different servers like mastodon".

I know protocols are a socialist issue, you know protocols are a socialist issue. How do we persuade?

Avanti cancel trains due to strike action (although not on an actual strike day).

We will refund your tickets, they say.

Just pay us £10 service fee.

Robbery, is what this is. Taking money for providing no service at all.

Nationalise them now. It is in our best interest.

Possibly of most interest to a UK person, but as I recently had cause to review my utility bills for 2021-22, I noticed relatively dramatic price increases were taking place then, around 20-30%. So this year they double and triple that. My concern? They’re using external circumstances to justify punitive profiteering in the uk, as that pattern hints. So why isn’t that the story? #nationalise #ripoffbritain #brexitunicorns