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THIS year is set to see yet another rise in Britain’s rail fares, with an increase of 3.8 per cent being introduced in March.
At this point these hikes in prices have begun to feel as much of a new year tradition as the London fireworks display or Jools Holland’s annual hootenanny, but we should never lose sight of just what a rip-off rail privatisation has been — or just how many opportunities governments have given it to fail us time after time.
Back in 1993 when the Railways Act, which sold off British Rail, was going through Parliament, then-Tory prime minister John Major claimed: “A great deal of nonsense has been talked about the privatisation of British Rail … The privatisation is not ideology but plain common sense and national self-interest.
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