Response to East Coast rail privatisation
Pete Green of Left Unity said:
“Handing the East Coast line to Virgin is rewarding failure on a massive scale.
“East Coast showed how it easy it would be to take all the railways back into public ownership. It ran excellent services, with satisfaction ratings at record levels, and made £220 million for the taxpayer.
“Virgin, on the other hand, takes huge public subsidies, runs notoriously bad services and funnels the profits into the pockets of Richard Branson. He will now have an effective monopoly on London-to-Scotland trains.
“We urgently need an end to the chaos of private rail.”
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1. Left Unity is the new party of the left in Britain. Founded in November 2013, it has around 2,000 members and 50 branches across the country.
Left Unity is active in movements and campaigns across the left, working to create an alternative to the main political parties.
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