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Originally Posted by Mancie
Royboy.. are you forgetting that the taxpayer is also the consumer? and as for Governments subsidising big business then no! it should not.. but the Tories subsidised the Railways for millions even when they had sold them.. South East Railways was sold for £1 ..yes a quid.. and the then Government gave the new owners over 50 million a year in subsidesfor the first 5 years.. a total rip off to the taxpayers..
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The Railways were on a downward spiral for many years as were the mines.
Do you know how much it cost the taxpayers over the previous five years to run the railways and the mines....both running at a loss?
How much did the Dome cost? and what are it's uses.
If the Government at the time had said 'OK' pull the shutters and close both down...what sort of response would that have brought from the people who would have been out of a job.....that subsidy to the railways was obviously to keep people in work.