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#1

Now the government finds itself having to

give nearly FIVE BILLION
QUID to a private company rather than a national
utility. The shareholders
must be laughing all the way to the bank.

its funny how shareholders seems to profit from
goverment decisions. Methinks some shareholders might
be influencing goverment policy in order to make more
money.

One thoroughly fed-up railway worker.

That happens all the time (in Oz the common trick is
to sack a person in order to save money, then hire
them back at contractors rate).

In your case the goverment would have said 'We care so
much about people, we will make the train system more
efficent (thus saving tax payers money), and we
promise to provide the same service as before'. Now
they would be saying 'We care so much about people
that we have have spend x billions of pounds to
support the train system'.

Both statements are vote winners (unless you start
comparing previous goverment policy statement - shades
of 1984 and the chocolate rations methinks).

:slight_smile:

But I've heard that the queen mum has broken her
collarbone, now THAT'S news (NOT).

:frowning:
m

p.s in oz a few days ago we have as front page the
cricket scandle. Hidden on page 7 was a drive by
shooting (still very rare in Oz), and in fine print on
page 1 was the plane crash with 70+ deadies.

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#2

  Now the government finds itself having to
> give nearly FIVE BILLION
> QUID to a private company rather than a national
> utility. The shareholders
> must be laughing all the way to the bank.

its funny how shareholders seems to profit from
goverment decisions. Methinks some shareholders might
be influencing goverment policy in order to make more
money.

> One thoroughly fed-up railway worker.

That happens all the time (in Oz the common trick is
to sack a person in order to save money, then hire
them back at contractors rate).

RD: Exactly the same here. It wasn't just the track workers either - the
private train companies decided they had too many drivers, so gave a lot of
them golden handshakes to retire early. Soon after, they found that of
their theoretical complement, some go drivers on holiday, some sick, some
retire, some leave and the train companies suddenly realised that far from
having too many drivers, they hadn't got enough. So they had to take back
the very people they earlier got rid of, or train new drivers from scratch.
That's how 'efficient' the private train companies are.

In your case the goverment would have said 'We care so
much about people, we will make the train system more
efficent (thus saving tax payers money), and we
promise to provide the same service as before'. Now
they would be saying 'We care so much about people
that we have have spend x billions of pounds to
support the train system'.

Both statements are vote winners (unless you start
comparing previous goverment policy statement - shades
of 1984 and the chocolate rations methinks).

But I've heard that the queen mum has broken her
collarbone, now THAT'S news (NOT).

RD: One too many gin and tonics, Ma'am?

m

p.s in oz a few days ago we have as front page the
cricket scandle. Hidden on page 7 was a drive by
shooting (still very rare in Oz), and in fine print on
page 1 was the plane crash with 70+ deadies.

RD: Yup, we find similar priorities in our papers.

Richard.