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Originally Posted by martyh
The RMT re doing their job ,just not very effectively .
The other point to consider is that the tax payer is paying compensation for lost fares and for season ticket holders because of the weird franchise agreement that GTR(the parent company owning Southern) have.
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The absurdity of the deal given to Southern should be a bigger story. What's the point of the franchise system, or privatisation in general, if all the risks and fines are put on the taxpayer and the profits to the franchise? It's just free money to private companies from the government. Remember there was that terrible deal given to First group for the west coast(?) mainline where they were promising cheaper tickets and better services as well as more money to the government which was obviously dodgy to anyone looking at it but it only got stopped after Virgin threatened to take it court and the government 'found their mistake'.
Corrupt as hell.