I just became a socialist - bring on Corbyn and let's nationalise the railways and have some proper service for a change!
I agree 100%.
I have never voted Labour and was brought up a staunch Daily Mail reader, but at the tender age of 56, I simply can't believe how our lives have become so screwed up!
British Rail were not perfect but at least you had a ticket in your hand and you'd get get there somehow. In one case, they got a minicab to drive a load of us students down to Hitchin because the trains from Huntingdon were cancelled.
Fast forward to privatisation and I missed a flight from Stansted because the idiots at Cambridge didn't give a toss about the Stansted express being cancelled for the whole afternoon. Trying to meet my son for a uni visit was a disaster when I discovered in Birmingham that there were plenty of trains but you had to know which train company went where.
I always thought that the whole point of public transport was to encourage people to leave their cars at home and travel cheaply while producing less pollution and helping the environment.
Steve,