Thursday 27 November 2014

Missing The French Connection

And so the East Coast Main Line prepares to pass from British public ownership into French public ownership.

Cheap fares in France, which I do not begrudge.

But paid for by extortionate fares in Britain.

UKIP, if you can, then make yourselves useful.

Meanwhile, there is talk of devolving to Scotland the power to renationalise the railways. But that is impossible, since the East Coast Main Line, among others, is a single company. A single company that is about to become owned by a foreign state.

If the railways had never been privatised, or if they had been renationalised in accordance with Labour's 1997 manifesto and several high-profile speeches by Tony Blair, then the devolution of transport at all could never have happened, and Scottish independence would be an obvious nonsense to even more people than it already is.

It is not too late.

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  1. Already dealt with.

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    Nigel FarageVerified account @Nigel_Farage
    East Coast mainline sell off isn't privatisation. It's a foreign nationalisation to French govt to profiteer off UK national infrastructure

    And here is what "freedom of movement" means.

    A University lecturer's face destroyed in front of his children by four Polish thugs with a string of convictions in their native country who sauntered into Britain.

    Apparently 1,500 more EU migrants (with convictions in their own countries) are living here.

    Vote UKIP indeed.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2850481/Four-burglars-plead-guilty-brutally-beating-lecturer-attack-home-left-shocking-facial-injuries.html

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    1. He is very late to the party, so to speak on this one. And he hasn't called for renationalisation, which is the only way of preventing this.

      Instead, UKIP pretends that that would be against EU law.

      The French (among others, including the Germans) appear not to have noticed that EU law. Perhaps it's rubbish? Imagine!

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  2. Nobody said any such thing about rail privatisation. The EU Second Railway Package doesn't require privatisation, it simply required all lines to be opened for competition and this has happened across the EU. Deutsche Ban which also owns some of our railways has now bought parts of Dutch and Danish railways.

    I thought you would know Bob Crow went to Brussels and campaigned against the EU's competition laws (including the Fourth Railway Package). Nobody told him they didn't exist.

    There are private rail firms now operating in all EU countries.

    UKIP has gone one better than that, of course.

    Unlike Her Majesty's Opposition UKIP loudly and consistently opposed the sell off of Royal Mail. See below.

    Like we were the only party in Parliament both to take the right side on Ukraine and oppose the war on Libya.

    http://www.paulnuttallmep.com/privatisation-agenda/

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    1. The Greens, as a party, opposed the war in Libya, complete with the benefit of an MP at the time.

      Neither of the MPs who have since joined it voted against either war in Libya or war in Syria.

      Labour, among others, opposed the privatisation of the Royal Mail.

      You yourself have made this claim in the past about the EU and the railways.

      And UKIP is still not in favour of renationalisation. Imagine the reaction from its own cheerleaders and donors if it were.

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    2. Oh, and I know the EU laws on this inside out. You are winging it. I can tell, you know?

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