Brilliant Shapps, you spastic. The drivers will now ban overtime working, and without it, 20% of trains won't run on any day. Class war - ironic really when £56k year-basic drivers are nudging middle-class affluence.
You do know that’s absolute bollocks, because the failed franchises were all bailed out by the taxpayer and now answer directly to the government, while still paying dividends to shareholders?
But if it's in the Lefty Loony Woke Grauniad and ****ty Mirror it's a fact All the papers are full of **** you ****ing dunce of a **** bucket.
And Network Rail has been in government hands since Railtrack financially collapsed after Hatfield and Potter's Bar. Crashes that were caused, lest we forget, by a private company cutting corners on its inspection regimes trying to save on staff costs, and outsourcing to agencies who didn't have the experience and ability to do the essential work, but did donate to the right politicians at the time.