Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
I don't think you are right. Governments of both the left and the right have allowed franchise holders to pay dividends. I think that it might be possible to provide subsidised rail and bus travel but I don't think that our battle ground approach to employee/employer relationships helps. Companies far bigger and more complex seem to be able to run without having the same confrontational industrial relations.
Think the Scottish Government runs rail franchise(s). Don't think they pay any dividend to themselves but I am not sure so happy to be corrected.
Am I wrong in thinking that Tory ministers awarded billions of pounds worth of contracts to companies they and their cronies were associated with during the Covid farce? Am I alsi wrong in thinking that huge amounts of these orders turned out to be either sub standard or never delivered?

They deserve the jail.