Barry Sanchez

No trousers, London Transport not the London Underground is a PPP. You can not compare the tube to the railway and they are different transport systems. Carry on.

I presume he is an annual season ticket holder, not too sure what that proves or does not, if it makes him happy so be it, he is self absorbed after all. He will be a hoot this Friday with Majoree and Brian...................

A left winger who loves his Country dearly, not a guise used by the selfish right who not only hate their Country but their Countrymen.

Well that box is ticked off...................

Because you are only going 80 miles, how much does it cost to do the same in France, Germany or Spain?

About 60%.

I wont celebrate her death but I wont miss her. You do remember the sun and its infamous headline of gotcha, this is the Thatcher voter from that rag.

No you were butchering and only putting in the bits you wanted to try and justify your weak argument. Not good sport at all.

I imagine Trousers on a friday night (beige polyester trousers and green shirt) with his wife inviting freinds around for a prawn cocktail and a blue nun and discussing how much they have made on their house and how they look forward to driving to Spain for the holidays....................

So your basis of argument is saying it may of gone up the same rate if we were still in the public's hands, thats a classic, a specualtion defensive argument. The figures are in there if you care to read and your example starts with a but which means you left out the meatier bit to try and justofy your poor example, what that guy is saying is ok on lines where there are competition, what he does not say is Assured cheap fare by booking ahead? What flexibilty do these cheap fares have? How much is an annual compared to 20 years ago to Waterloo? It used to be £2888,00 from Winchester in 1999 I know that much. Poor example old bean, you are arguing that cheaper fares are available (they are) but they are not available to all and you can only go at times that are not usually peak or on a slower train. Carry on.

Are you as calm as a frozen lake?

I will add the 5.2 figure is an estimate I have seen some are as low as 2.5 and some are quite a bit higher, whatever figure it is is that it costs far too much and the taxpayer is not getting value for money, the car driving M25 train hater is paying more for his traffice jam than ever before and yet no one is telling him this, everybody is getting a bad deal. As I say ignorance is bliss.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/22/will-hutton-rail-privatisation-disastrous http://www.adamsmith.org/sites/default/files/images/uploads/publications/railway.pdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21056703 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/10/rail-privatisation-failed-nhs http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/british-train-fares-are-highest-in-world-but-london-slips-down-priciest-cities-list-1774544.html Also I posted last the recent Huffington Post article.

The selfish and ones who gained under her regime will love her forever more, the ones with a conscience wont.

Thatcher gave the go ahead not Major, he oversaw it. I have never forgiven Labour for that either so fairs fair, no political party is the friend of the railway, we are as a antion backward and so wrong on this that we view the railway as a business as opposed to an essential componet of our Country that has to be paid for by the Government, we are Americans in that sense (even they though when they close a track can not build on it) where we would rather get in a car and wait for hours on our own. It does say an awful lot about how our Country works or does not too be honest. And back to your first point concerning Beeching, he did awful things concerning the railways, naive things but the privatisation was not something he did (or was allowed to go) it was the tories (lets sell some more of the silver and make our chums rich and throw a bone to the poor man), I know of 2 people who became millionaires overnight in 1995 due to the breakup of the railway, insider trading? You betcha.

That pretty much sums it up, 5.2 more expensive, people as I say forget they they used to own a crap service now they dont and pay an awful lot more for the privilege, as long as the public dont APPEAR to pay for it its all good, as I say ignorance is bliss. Lets start paying on all motorways, they dont make any money, its simply concrete.

The legacy of Thatcher is still being felt in the North and South Wales and other parts of the Country, as a Southerner who has to travel around I see the wastelands she let happen under he tenure, for a person that was supposed to watch out for the whole of the UK she did a good job of ignoring and razing to the ground parts of it. As long as the Southerners can buy their own homes and clean their cars on a Sunday all is good though.

Where did I say Scotland were a guinea pigs? You are getting a little lost and ahead of yourself there, they have never recovered from the implementation of the community charge, she did unite scotland though such was knowledge of the north.......

Such was the distaste of the poll tax she has ****ed it royally up for any scot tory up there, tory free zone.

What about solidarity with people suffering?

Sorry the sun has an anti Thatcher readership, its the most right wing rag bar the mail!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/neil-clark/privatised-railway-why-we-cant-afford-a-priv_b_1679214.html

Cool.

They are the children from her reign, they have every right to question her policies.

A tyoical ignorant tactic is to say it was worse under BR and great now, no one is saying it was great then, what was needed was massive subsidy as every other nation does with their trains, now we have ned railways and the french taking out their profits from subsidy and using it to subsidise their national services. BR was bad but ours with low to criminal subsidy, the current is better but costs an awful lot more and you can forget having a connection waiting for you if your train is delayed, customer service is sacrificed for performance.