Govia contract expires in 2025, i’m looking forward to seeing GBR on the side of all those trains, Thameslink and Southern etc, anyone who thinks profits will be ploughed into the system may be disappointed though, i read somewhere that the current private operators make 12p per passenger journey
Not surprising that these companies are folding
Reliability is another obvious target for improvement, but change is going to take time, such is the depth of the mess.
I can tell you now with the upmost confidence that policing will not save a penny via centralised procurement, in fact quite the opposite. This is a nice soundbite, but literally has no chance of succeeding. If they want to make savings the changes need to go much deeper.
I don’t see how it can’t save money if the below figures are correct:
There is an element here of toys for boys, but you can not change the behaviour via a centralised procurement team. All that happens is that they sign national deals and then every force does its upmost to circumvent these arrangements. Often for perfectly valid reasons.
There was plenty wrong with BR, what’s wrong with GBR?
Gee! Don’t you know?
Just a preference and nostalgia. I liked the British Rail days.
seems like Cass review has shaken a lot of people out of the trance, or at least given them confidence to say what they always thought.
How’s this for succinct from Labour:How do labour spokespeople answer the questions:
'How much will you reduce the number of illegal channel crosses to?' and
'how do you know your plans will work?'
I don't think our shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, is doing a good job now on radio 5
She is blathering on about what labour will do, and not answering the Q.
So is there an appropriate answer?
I think I would answer it this way:
"Imagine people are climbing over your garden fence, from a youth club next door, and stealing your fruit and veg? If you say you will go and speak to the youth club and get them to agree to keep a better eye on the kids, give them more things to do, and make it harder for them to climb over the fence, what would you think if a radio interviewer demanded to know exactly how many of these kids would be stopped? What if one of your neighbours proposed another plan, to not have anything to do with the youth club, but to employ guards in your garden who would abduct the kids climbing over the fence and drive them to Cornwall and leave them in the middle of Bodmin Moor? What would you say if the radio interviewer told you your plan wasn't as good as the Bodmin option, because you can't guarantee your plan would work?"
I think my answer would be "With respect, the Bodmin plan is in fact already in place. My neighbour took a boy to Bodmin yesterday. And yet kids are still piling over my fence. You are implying that my plan, which nobody knows will work till we try it, is worse than the current plan that we already know doesn't work. Isn't that not rather a silly argument? I can't predict exactly what percentage of you eyesight you would keep if I don't poke you in the eye. That doesn't mean that poking you in the eye is the preferable option. I could of course kick you hard in the bollocks if you ask me any more stupid questions"
Not sure why Cooper didn't say something along these lines rather than blather on.
Excellent idea.
Can claim asylum but that doesn't mean that it will be granted!!
Sauce?
Which has to be better than 'anyone arriving here cannot claim asylum and will be flown to Rwanda'.
