nhs, this is an argument on what is most effective

rails sure

scrap VAT on heating and fuel, significantly reduce duty on fuel and alcohol - it should max out at the cost of the externalities of vice being taxed
end mass immigration

royal mail should never have been privatised

ban future corporate ownership of residential property, limit residential property ownership to 1 per person, and to co-operatives and non-rpfits

royal mail is utterly irrelevent to the cost of living

yes, but in principle

agree about "what is most effective"

royal mail had to be privatised as per EU's EC directive 97/67

we kno

Mail has to be nationalised because it takes investment to reach rural areas which private companies won't do

that's purely a fucking stupid argument

Doesnt that rule work with any business that has to provide in rural areas?

How so wladfa

has the privatisation of RM worked well so far?

For me to support nationalising things like RailTrack, and the National Grid, i'd need to see evidence that doing so would make it better

how good are train services and train fares Eccles?

No idea, FF, no railways around here

I resent subsidising it though

What would you rather have done for the rails

your arugment being stupid isn't the same as me thinking it shouldn't be privatised you moron

https://tenor.com/view/chirs-farley-shocked-what-huh-omg-gif-4108687

bommer gif for you ff

Mail is a public service that should be provided to everyone regardless of where they are. Private companies simply cannot do that and RM has failed already to do that and you think that s stupid argument lmao

it just shows how little you are aware of how things work at national scales

Rail? close it down

the logistics involved to provide the service

I'd like to see rail used more for freight

ANd not for rich londoners to fuck up rural economies

so you want some 40 million people to travel bu cars ?

I want the rail network to be self-sustaining and not subsidised by car drivers, most of which are significantly poorer than those using the rail they're subsidising

If you -must- subsidise rail, and I don't think we should, then pay for it out of general taxation

You want the rails to close down, so can you tell me what will the alternative be?

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Why would it close down?

> I want the rail network to be self-sustaining

> You want the rails to close down

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> Rail? close it down
@Eccles

Remove the subsidies (prices go up) or push the cost of the subsidies from cars to general tadxation

Stop being a leftist 🙂 I'm establishing preference

If the options were "fund rail off the back of impoverished car drivers" and "shut it down", then shut it the fuck down