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It was an ideological (and money-raising) decision by the Major government, who had very few other public utilities left to sell. Even Thatcher refused to privatise the railways. And even senior Tories admitted later that the way it was done, with the break-up into so many sections and the track...

Incorrect. When the franchise owners handed back the East Coast main line in 2009 because they couldn't make money, the [Labour] government took over and ran it at a profit. Then they [by now Tories] handed it to Virgin & Stagecoach so that they could make the profit instead, the fares went up...

While you're taking the bait, I'm tempted to mention the people who are even more intelligent than him who voted Remain, but let's not bother this time.

I vote for Caroline Lucas for exactly the same reasons even though otherwise I'm a lifelong Labour voter. What is especially relevant to this thread is that I regularly receive invitations to take part in YouGov polling and their questions appear to take no account of the possibility that anyone...

And it assumes that intelligent people always vote intelligently. One of the (otherwise) cleverest people I know voted Leave in the referendum, so it goes to show that he isn't intelligent all the time ...

I think you mean 'credibility' rather than 'credence'.