Running A Railway

Britain invented the railway system with the Liverpool to Manchester Railway completed in 1830, and thus started the modern world .....

Britain Led The World In Railways .......

.... in fact without the modern transport systems that evolved from the railways through to the aeroplane  ... the Coronavirus would probably never have left China.

Expanding The State

Perhaps not too strangely, many of Jeremy Corbyn's suggested policies would result in a vast increase in the number of public sector employees.

Rail Strikes Are Common In UK These Days

1. The railways should be renationalised.
2. The energy industry should be renationalised.
3. Public sector salary caps should be lifted.

These three alone would bring in thousands of new public sector employees, and add billions to the public sector bills that the tax payer has to support. So why does that matter?