Not Andy Naylor
Well-known member
Why do you think they privatised it in the 1st place
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 separated from the train companies, was mistaken.