Thank you for responding to my question, George, although I don't see the possible "disaster" that you refer to.
You write much that is factual, but also some that I find amusing:
"it's distasteful even to speculate about such a silly idea).
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"delaying the electrification of the main line to Bristol is a piece of nonsense.
" "the American election results - much more shocking.
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"Note the lie here, denying the harm being proposed:
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"Incidentally, the surprise here is that the government is making decisions about the railways
" In my view "privatization" was never meant to work, but is simply a show to make the public believe it's getting some freedom back from the government. It's a far cry from the circumstances in which the railways were built in the first pace.