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Rail profits make a mockery out of working people 
The government claims that there is no money in the industry, yet international investors are falling over themselves to get in on the act, says RMT leader MICK LYNCH
Mick Lynch

IT SEEMS an age ago that the Tories claimed to be the voice of the working class. 

Since the fall of the so-called “red wall” when workers lent them their vote to get Brexit done as many saw it, this rotten Tory government has relentlessly attacked workers by slashing services and driving down wages at the height of a cost-of-living crisis. 

In the transport sector the government’s so-called levelling-up agenda has involved bulldozing through a wave of cuts not seen for a generation. 

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