The government has objected to a proposed rescue deal for Thames Water, in a move which takes the UK's largest water company a step closer to a form of nationalisation.
Chief Political Correspondent @hzeffman explains more.
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Have signed but i oughta ask why it wasn’t stipulated that we need it to also say that the water companies need to be taken into public ownership without any compensation to Shareholders just as happened with Railtrack. Otherwise it just encourages further privatisation bonanzas
Rail nationalisation costs nothing. When franchise contracts with the likes of Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Trenitalia and Deutsche Bahn run out, you simply do not renew them.
They revert to public ownership, it costs you zero and you stop seeing that money flood out of the country.
A "total railway" manager who has done it all. Founded a freight company - Charter Rail . Freight Director, Railtrack. Regional Director Network Rail, leading recovery after Great Heck, NR Ops Director then OLR/DFTO. And now involved in small consignment freight.
Congratulations to Robin Gisby on a well deserved OBE in the King's Birthday Honours. A railway lifer, from launching a private sector intermodal freight service in the 1980s to a succession of senior posts at Railtrack and Network Rail and then leading OLR as it became DFTO.
You were supposed to build a railtrack and to end homelessness. You received dozens of billions dollars to do so. Why is there no railtrack ? Why is the homelessness still so high in California?
Safety Regulation was taken away from Railtrack to @railandroad who with Industry bodies and legislation,brought the safe railway since Railtrack days.
I've not read it but was doing a very relevant job then for Railtrack. These dreadful crashes brought the safety regime that has made our railways the safest in Europe and possibly the world. The legacy of those deaths and injuries, although doesn't help 1 bit is a safe railway.
... the railways have been nationalised since 1948 ... railtrack owned by the govt the trains operated as franchises allocated by the govt on receipt of large sums of money ...
The infrastructure was nationalised because Railtrack plc failed. I'm amazed people gloss over that fact. HS2 has gone over budget and behind schedule, I truly thought people understood that.