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Old 06-04-2004, 01:33   #40
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Re: Deprivatisation of railways

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Originally Posted by Graham
Nope, the point about "state owned" is that all the extra money goes into HM Treasury which allows any government that's a little hard up to "bilk" the successful parts of industry etc to support the bits that don't work properly, instead of *fixing* the bits that don't work properly like any *sensible* business would.
True, although the Tory government sold off those bits that did generate the money, but didn't fix the bits that were wrong. So now, we have departments that still have problems and have a lack of funding making them worse..
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