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As Labour pledges to renationalise railways within five years if elected, Nick Ferrari speaks to General Secretary of the RMT Union, Mick Lynch, to discuss the plans.
Labour says it will do this by bringing passenger services into public control as the contracts expire, but has stressed there will still be a role for the private sector.
Other railway pledges include automatic refunds for train delays and improving internet connections.
Speaking on whether renationalising railways would make industrial action less likely, Lynch tells Nick: 'What we've got at the moment is an assault on people's terms and conditions.
'We can get rid of all this nonsense and get a railway that's run to the needs of the public.'
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@MajorCharlesCarringtonV.C 23 дня назад

Privatisation has not served the public only the shareholders railway and water

@michaelathanasiou2030 23 дня назад

When you nationalise companies they strike and get over inflationary wages ( that's how Labour bankrupt the nation every time they govern) we are going back to square one

@scarfhs1 23 дня назад

In both cases what was set up was regional privately owned monopolies and in a monopoly situation the consumer doesn't stand a chance.

@dawnslingsby2324 23 дня назад

Lynch will be in control of Labour,more strikes etc.the,it will be much

@dawnslingsby2324 23 дня назад

worse

@TheGeneReyva 23 дня назад

And energy.

@coppershark1973 23 дня назад

Transport AND utilities should belong to the public. There is NO competition available for us to choose from so why are they PROFIT motivated? RENATIONALISE.

@skunclep1938 23 дня назад

You want to nationalise airlines & shipping? Sweeping statements aren’t very useful.

@mintywebb 23 дня назад

@@skunclep1938very little shipping provides transport as most people would understand it. Are you going to the Olympics? With those giant leaps.

@mobilephil244 23 дня назад

Like it ran so faultlessly when it WAS nationalised ? (Ceaseless strikes, work-to-rules, sympathy-strikes, walk-outs, flying pickets, cancellations, more strikes and even more strikes) . Nationalisation is giving vital infrastructure to brainless, leftie activists.

@skunclep1938 23 дня назад

@@mintywebb so Airlines then? And of course no one uses ships to ferry goods across the channel, huh? It’s your sweeping statements (with very little thought behind them and a lot of shouting) that show Olympic levels of laziness, and probably a lack of understanding of the real problems faced with renationalising Transport & (sorry, AND) Utilities.

@lamotiengodidal6511 23 дня назад

Renationalisation - it's a futile option as the Conservatives will be back in power in ten years time. The corrupt Tories will simply flog off any renationalised industries back to their friends, donors and business associates at below market value. Better to strengthen industry regulators to ensure the privatised services deliver decent services, cost effectively. Change the law to ensure privatised services cannot pay dividends to shareholders or take out loans against the business until they provide decent services.

@AnaInTh3Sky 23 дня назад

Very simple: national infrastructure MUST be nationalised. Always. Not ONE privatisation has benefited the consumer in this country. NOT ONE.

@denzel270 23 дня назад

Very simple, the estimated cost of nationalising the railways in £10 billion, £87 - £90 billion for water, £90 billion for energy.

@markwelch3564 22 дня назад

@@denzel270water would only cost that much if we accepted liability for their debt Why should we pay for the debts ran up by private incompetence? Let them go bankrupt like any other incompetent private business Buying the infrastructure would then be about a quarter of the number you estimated

@user-eu4zy6rm3l 22 дня назад

tell us one Nationalised industry that HAS benefited from "Nationalisation." ? Steel ? Coal ? Cars ? Shipbuilding ? 🙄

@po72644 22 дня назад

@user-eu4zy6rm3l Many countries in europe have nationalised railways, and as someone whose just travelled around Europe I can tell you tickets in most other European countries are far cheaper. They're not perfect, but the UK railway system is notoriously bad compared to the rest of Europe

@harveysmith100 21 день назад

@@denzel270 They may seem huge sums of money until you look at the billions the government subsides these private companies every year

@Zippipus 23 дня назад

Lynch is always worth listening to - much more so than Ferrari

@vincentvangogh8092 23 дня назад

Ferraris Questions are seen as an opportunity by lynch to tell the public how things are. Then you watch him interview a tory MP and get zero questions answered, Lynch answers every single question

@johnrussell3961 23 дня назад

Both wanted Brexit,

@robandrews8047 23 дня назад

@@johnrussell3961Lynch supported Brexit because he wanted to renationalise the railways, something he didn’t believe was possible while we remained in the E.U Nick wanted Brexit because he’s a Tory stooge.

@ChairmanAntelope 23 дня назад

@@robandrews8047genuine question: why would being in the EU prevent us from nationalising the railways?

@robandrews8047 23 дня назад

@@ChairmanAntelope I honestly can’t remember the exact reasoning he gave, but it was something to do with workers right if memory serves , was a long time ago lol there is a video with him and James O’B arguing about it somewhere

@Festivejelly 23 дня назад

Privatisation is pointless in a monopoly.

@segue2ant395 23 дня назад

It's also incredibly counter-productive when it's a basic need like transportation, water, healthcare. Do you want a healthy mobile workforce, or not?!

@scarfhs1 23 дня назад

Its not pointless if you are a shareholder in the companies, you will get big pay outs as the company milks the consumer for everything they have.

@tomheeks2830 22 дня назад

Not if you're the one who gets to run it. Quids in 👍

@Gary-le7dz 22 дня назад

It’s not privatisation it’s state funded monopoly s

@jimcourt9164 22 дня назад

There are 13 companies

@magravy1 23 дня назад

Privatisation has failed all of us

@Darkstarr-ud2go 23 дня назад

Some services should never be privatized ….. public transportation, roads, water, sewer and yes, healthcare …. Why? They are inelastic goods and services …. They are intrinsically monopolies which means there are no viable competitors…. Hard to have more than one train line, or one water provider … hard to have multiple sewer companies … I’d argue energy should also be nationalized but run as a public/private venture …. Not everything in society needs to be for profit ….

@DocNick68 23 дня назад

Healthcare is only a monopoly in the UK. And numerous NHS scandals have shown the danger of there being no alternative. Even European countries with far better welfare systems than us have not copied the NHS model, they allow for multiple providers and require the citizen to cover an element of the expense.

@markwelch3564 22 дня назад

@@DocNick68I don't like private imvolvement in healthcare. They'll always take the easy cases and milk them for profit, while leaving complications to the public service If a business model only works by cherry picking the easy wins and leaving the public to carry the expensive, risky cases, we shouldn't allow privatisation

@Darkstarr-ud2go 22 дня назад

@@DocNick68 well at least it was functional and admired before it was privatized and gutted and brexitfied….

@catherinemartin6258 23 дня назад

Privatisation has been a disaster but the same people will still want it to continue which is insane . The British public has been taking as cash cows for decades everything is too expensive.

@user-yt3td2tc7n 23 дня назад

'The British public has been taking as cash cows' - call me captain obvious but that will be the same when it's state owned. However i'm all for it, as long as it's deemed an essential public service and therefore no unions are allowed, no strikes and no state pensions for workers. Same goes for water, power, fire, ambulance and the NHS. But Labour can't do any of this as they rely on union support and funding.

@roaringscot 23 дня назад

@@user-yt3td2tc7n 'The British public has been taking as cash cows' may well still be true under re-nationalisation, but at least the cash will be going back into the UK economy and not disappearing into offshore corporate bank accounts or subsidising foreign train services.

@Ayerighr 23 дня назад

@@user-yt3td2tc7nSo you're against workers having any rights in the workplace? Very Tory of you.

@chrysalis4126 23 дня назад

@@user-yt3td2tc7n There won't be most of any profit going into dividends, it will be able to go into the infrastructure which under private companies has been non existent.

@michaelGarvey6587 23 дня назад

Agreed ! But the British public couldn’t see past the MSM headlines and propaganda. People in the UK NEED to understand the basics of how this all works! It’s not that complicated. We need people to explain what’s going on in layman terms so this doesn’t happen again

@michaelotieno6524 23 дня назад

Finally, a Labor policy i can support

@christophermoorhouse8828 22 дня назад

Nice to see you endorse Jeremy Corbyn. It was his idea.

@user-eu4zy6rm3l 22 дня назад

tell us one Nationalised industry that HAS benefited from "Nationalisation." ? Steel ? Coal ? Cars ? Shipbuilding ? 🙄

@deanrogers8381 22 дня назад

@user-eu4zy6rm3l not to mention British Rail! Strikes almost all the time in the 70's And for God's sake don't mention coal... They will have a meltdown with that one, blaming Maggie for uts downfall when in fact Labour closed more pits and put more miners out of work. But the left conveniently ignore those facts!

@michaelotieno6524 22 дня назад

@@user-eu4zy6rm3l You seem to be confusing Nationalization and Competence. These are 2 very different things.

@michaelotieno6524 22 дня назад

@@christophermoorhouse8828 8 billion people in the world, you seem to think no one apart from Corbyn thought about nationalization. Every once in a while even fools can be right.

@ianscotty1931 23 дня назад

Privatisation of premium public services is a disgrace these should not be for profit and should be owned by the British government . This includes water.inclusive of sewer systems.

@emilydavison2053 23 дня назад

England is the only country in the world to have sold off its water. Such a precious thing that belongs to the people, not putting money in shareholders pockets.

@user-eu4zy6rm3l 22 дня назад

tell us one Nationalised industry that HAS benefited from "Nationalisation." ? Steel ? Coal ? Cars ? Shipbuilding ? 🙄

@emilydavison2053 22 дня назад

@@user-eu4zy6rm3l privatising water and the trains has clearly been a massive mistake. 75% of England's water is owned by foreigners - including the Chinese state and Middle Eastern royalty. They have taken billions in dividends and loaded it with billions in debts, while investing nothing in infrastructure. Why would they care if our rivers and seas are destroyed? They're probably laughing at us for selling it off.

@chrisarcher6972 21 день назад

No, not owned by the British government, but by the British people: in any true democratic society, a government exist only to serve the people of that nation.

@chrisarcher6972 21 день назад

@@user-eu4zy6rm3l They've done so well under privatisation, haven't they?

@paulallen26091960 23 дня назад

Some years ago I was a London commuter. At least twice a week, I was thrown off a late train to wait for the next one, so the train company was not fined for a late arrival at the Terminal. Privatisation failed for the Many and Enriched the Few.

@maxine2798 23 дня назад

With the advantage of London actually having trains. Look at the service outside the capitol

@paulhollis8879 23 дня назад

Didn’t happen, did it mate?

@gibsonms 20 дней назад

@@paulhollis8879that happens regularly on trains into Marylebone

@stephenjon3502 14 дней назад

No, you were probably taken off because the driver had either gone over their max driving time, no relief for that driver meaning it would go to depot a trip early or it was running so late the controller needed it to terminate to get it back on a correct headway.

@Captain-Chats 23 дня назад

As a rail worker, I so welcome this. Maybe we can also get staffing levels up also

@denzel270 23 дня назад

course you do, you pretty much demand what you want pay wise.

@leejack-qt2em 23 дня назад

@@denzel270Yes railway workers are the only people who want money.

@bobbytreetop1701 23 дня назад

@@denzel270jealous.

@alanpage3973 23 дня назад

@@denzel270he might be a cleaner your have obviously jumped to the conclusion that he's a train driver haven't you?

@user-eu4zy6rm3l 22 дня назад

tell us one Nationalised industry that HAS benefited from "Nationalisation." ? Steel ? Coal ? Cars ? Shipbuilding ?

@just-a-working-male 23 дня назад

wanted a day out in london for my last birthday but looking at ticket prices from brighton. it would of wiped out my entire budget for the day.

@Nickbaldeagle02 23 дня назад

Would have. Would've.

@leejack-qt2em 23 дня назад

If you only haf £25 to spend i dont think you wouldve been done much at all anyway.

@just-a-working-male 23 дня назад

@@leejack-qt2em alot of sight seeing

@leejack-qt2em 23 дня назад

@@just-a-working-male I personally just dont see how you expected to have a day out and only spend £25. In london for £25 you would be lucky to be able to get anything more than a meal and a drink. Its expensive af up there.

@krob2327 22 дня назад

I totally agree with you. But this policy will make train prices go up I’m afraid as it passes the burden from the tax payer to the commuter. Labour despise those who work and want leisure masquerading as the workers party

@ebutuoyYT 23 дня назад

Nationalise the buses at same time and create a joined up network, where trains and buses work in close cooperation.

@neilgraves5069 16 дней назад

Great shout that

@KidarWolf 23 дня назад

I've been saying we need to nationalise the railways for years. Hopefully, it does get done, because as it is, the system doesn't work for anyone except the highest level management.

@englishstark6100 23 дня назад

We can’t even build a train anymore and don’t have the trained engineers mechanics etc but look on the bright side we’ve got abundance of diversity managers.

@michaelfoy 22 дня назад

@@englishstark6100And THAT my friend has been ONE of the reasons WE have lost SO many of the SKILLS we formerly HAD in abundance. Speaking as a Former Nationalised industry employee (Wrecked by Privatisation) 4 more family members Also....We saw the Previously WELL-REGARDED Apprenticeship schemes run by Electricity, Gas and Dockyard engineering skills ALL trashed once Privatisation meant that NONE of the New individual owners wanted to invest in...The Gas Board alone turned out dozens of Skilled Plumbers/engineers Every year....WE warned of this....But the ££££££ Signs were ALLREADY Flashing in The Management's eyes.....they supported the Sell off.....OF COURSE!

@englishstark6100 22 дня назад

We had inventors visionaries too

@TheRip72 22 дня назад

They have already been nationalised once...in 1948. Privatisation was a backward step.

@user-eu4zy6rm3l 22 дня назад

tell us one Nationalised industry that HAS benefited from "Nationalisation." ? Steel ? Coal ? Cars ? Shipbuilding ?

@Raven-nx8dr 23 дня назад

Everything should belong to the state. Politicians only privatise to get a nice slice of the pie ££££

@JGS2295 23 дня назад

Even my lemonade stand?

@adamthornton5027 23 дня назад

No, you can keep your lemonade stand with the state's best wishes😆@@JGS2295

@garygee1468 23 дня назад

That would include you

@shinx2k6 23 дня назад

Not everything, only essentials, energy, public transport, health service, security and politicians

@adamthornton5027 23 дня назад

The arms industry and pharmaceutical industry (although you might include that with health service)@@shinx2k6

@davidcolin6519 23 дня назад

Nick Ferrari is becoming a liability to LBC, His devotion to Tory dogma is, to paraphrase judge Juan Merchan, "Losing him any of his credibility". Considering that he started off with not too much, that is quite dnngerous ground. You only need to read the comments section on any of NF's interviews to realise how incredibly out of touch with public sentiments he is.

@adamthornton5027 23 дня назад

But he just gave a socialist a soap box. Does that not account for anything? Or am I missing something?

@gerardredfern7339 23 дня назад

Yeah, it's gonna be great under the communist Labour Party. Just what we need. Can't wait.

@Toodyslexicforyou 23 дня назад

@Quaterpounder-pc2uctbf your right if there are right wingers they can be exposed to left wing views and left wing views can be exposed to right wing views. Even if it just to re-justify your own correctness

@Toodyslexicforyou 23 дня назад

@Quaterpounder-pc2uc literally what I said above. How about you let yourself read?

@thegeneral123 23 дня назад

While I find his views and general perspective to be absurd and out of touch. He does represent a significant number of UK citizens opinions. So while I don't like him or his views, it's only fair they are represented. Otherwise things get very dangerous.

@johnburrows3385 23 дня назад

All the necessities in life have been transferred over to the profit motive . This is why people can't afford to live .

@AndrewHeavyside 22 дня назад

Normal man speaking clearly and concisely. He really knows his stuff this guy. Runs rings around the media, who try to tow the line of the rich, tories, and big businesses.

@TheGeneReyva 23 дня назад

Labour will then need to implement protections to stop them being sold off in future.

@johndavies4919 23 дня назад

Only one way to do that. PR

@alanpage3973 23 дня назад

@@johndavies4919ain't going to happen stop living in dreamland

@jeffreyheeks 23 дня назад

Thatcherism failed.

@davidclucas4932 22 дня назад

Still blaming maggie after 30 odd years. At least sir Keir will be more up to date. He can have 5 years blaming the tories, then 5 years of achieving three parts of nothing, and then we’ll vote the tories back in. The same cycle of events since 1979. And are any of us any better off. Whoever you like to vote for, it stinks

@deanrogers8381 22 дня назад

Get real! Don't you remember the note left by the Labour chancellor of the exchequer saying 'there is no money left ' ? Labour failed, and fails EVERY time!

@jeffreyheeks 22 дня назад

@@deanrogers8381 and if you know you're political history you'll know that that note is a tradition that all parties do when they leave office. Tories did it to Labour as well. Know your politics. As for your ridiculous comment. Ten's of thousands of deaths will not be forgotten. Partying and sickening lies Your pathetic attempt at trying to compare this corrupt, criminally negligent farce of a government is embarrassing. Defend one thing this government has done. I dare you.

@Zen-rd9np 19 дней назад

@@deanrogers8381interesting that national debt is the highest even now. It was already higher before covid. And you say labour are bad with money

@deanrogers8381 19 дней назад

@Zen-rd9np . You obviously aren't aware that there has been a worldwide pandemic, a European war and a recession. Hardly surprising that debt has increased really! And as the recession is the result of worldwide economic difficulties due in large parts to the war in Europe and the pandemic caused massive spending by most countries in the world you can hardly blame all the woes on the government , now can you!

@JGS123WRPTP 22 дня назад

More brilliant, detailed answers.

@Human_Herbivore 23 дня назад

Railways are an essential service and we know full well that bringing the profit motive in to essential services does by nature negatively impact them because profit becomes more important than reinvestment. All essential services should be nationalised and more ancillary services too. For example, too much money paid out by the NHS goes into private for profit pockets.

@denzel270 23 дня назад

The estimated cost of nationalising the railways in £10 billion, £87 - £90 billion for water, £90 billion for energy.

@Human_Herbivore 23 дня назад

@@denzel270 bring it on. I am a customer of Thames Water and am looking at a 40% plus price increase because they have effed up the system, while continuing to pay dividends. The bank bailouts in 2009 cost an estimated £137 billion.

@bob23301 23 дня назад

If Ferrari were privitised and everything he put into his mouth had shareholders and ceo cut taken before he swallowed it, he would weigh 2 stone.

@northstar1690 23 дня назад

London Overground trains are actually owned by private "investors" who lease the trains back to the train operating company.

@skunclep1938 23 дня назад

I’m so glad that Mr Lynch is happier now. Would someone please remind the Lexiter that we could have done this whilst we were still in the EU.

@emilydavison2053 23 дня назад

I thought some uk train companies are owned by European organisations - who have been happy to take the money out of our country.

@Deany3791 23 дня назад

Thought I was breathing heavy, then I realised it was Nick

@garygavin857 23 дня назад

Mr Lynch knows the railways operations problems. He knows how to exploit them when he needs to do so. In fact he knows far more about its failings & complexity more than the managers who operate it as the employees will gleefully tell him of the ineptitude , greed, skimming that takes place every day. Railways are expensive. But by raising higher motorist costs they hope to force you onto the public monopoly. It is cheaper to fly hire a car & stay over night in a hotel than to catch a train. Preening Politicans he runs circles around. I wish it was not so but it is. Its not getting cheaper, cleaner, comfortable with smiling helpful staff anytime soon.

@adrianthoroughgood1191 22 дня назад

If aviation fuel was taxed to take account of it's emissions that would help railways be more competitive.

@garygavin857 22 дня назад

@@adrianthoroughgood1191 I think you missed the point. Making everthing expensive somehow makes us more equal. Really ? Such a simple answer.

@johndewhurst6609 23 дня назад

I once worked for a company that had its headquarters in germany, It had member elected trade union reps on its board of directors and they insisted that all subsidiaries were trade union affiliated. this meant if a problem arose anywhere they only needed to discuss the problem with those shop stewards. It worked really well and was a great place to work.

@aktarhussain4437 23 дня назад

Privatise profits and nationalise losses.. the capitalist way..

@binzy698 22 дня назад

spot on as usual

@silondon9010 23 дня назад

Privatisation in the Royal Mail is disaster with TOP MANAGEMENT only in interested in delivering Tracked packets and letters left in the frames for days 😢

@michaelmarriott11 23 дня назад

It’ll be a start. Next water, electric, post,

@paulthornton8871 22 дня назад

Privatisation,steel,coal (still being used and new mines opening,china,australia,russia,us) Care in the community,nhs has more managers than ward sisters. Thatchers britain has become a decaying wreck

@DavidGetling 23 дня назад

I very strongly believe that all the vital services that we depend on should not be run for profit. What's charged for them should only be used to break even or improve the service. Nationalisation might be the only way to do this. BUT those in such jobs enjoy unparalleled job security, and in return they should lose their right to strike, and have to give at least 3 months notice to quit their job.

@denzel270 23 дня назад

The estimated cost of nationalising the railways in £10 billion, £87 - £90 billion for water, £90 billion for energy.

@paulpb9138 23 дня назад

Clement Attlee spent £1.2bn in 1940 - that's about £30bn today. It will cost a lot more than 10bn to nationalise the railway - who do we think we pay for the rolling stock that technically we have already paid for in subsidies. So much money will move into private hands the BoE will need to turn the printing presses up to 11.

@markwarby7447 23 дня назад

When listening to Ferrari question a government ministers he never gives them a hard time,i.e., costings of torys promise of 40 new hospitals,but every labour announcement he questions and asks where the money is coming from. Never impartial a proper tory boy

@shirleyhanson9572 23 дня назад

If the railway becomes nationalised will the passenger costs come down? I remember years ago being able to turn up at a train station and buy a ticket from south Wales to Edinburgh plus insurance and it was affordable for me who was 16 years old at the time.

@denzel270 23 дня назад

costs have risen significantly since then

@danielrawlings8355 23 дня назад

End all food and drink deliveries into the Borough of Westminster. Stop feeding the beast.

@alphabetaxenonzzzcat 23 дня назад

Privatisation of the railways in the UK has been a disaster. It might of worked, if the system that Japan implemented had been copied for Britain, what with having the track and trains owned by the same company, much like the famous "Big Four" from the past. This system has been a complete mess, and really a lot of public money which could of been spent on upgrading the infrastructure is syphoned off to shareholders.

@redeyegooner 22 дня назад

Renationalise all of it : Rail, Water, Energy, Post. These are the basic fundamentals of any society and should be publicly owned and controlled, for the publics interest not for the interest of a very few private shareholders.

@11buster1000 23 дня назад

Lynch for PM

@11buster1000 23 дня назад

@@garyfletcher1910 yep higher wages more money for workers.

@trucker4567 23 дня назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Jonnyonthespot123 23 дня назад

@@trucker4567 I'd like to remind you we elected a clown as a PM and that has led to years of disaster. Laughing will get us nowhere as a country.

@trucker4567 23 дня назад

@@Jonnyonthespot123 The tories have been a disaster for this country but liebour are definitely NOT the answer.

@trucker4567 23 дня назад

@@Jonnyonthespot123 So what's your answer? Vote another clown in?

@sugarfree1894 22 дня назад

It is terrible that people don't know how this has all been set up and run. Glad it's finally coming to public knowledge, it's certainly in the public interest.

@matthewfindlay9010 23 дня назад

What happens when the government has other priorities to fund and redistributes revenue. Currently it is contractually obligated to invest in the operational infrastructure.

@johnbarnes8755 22 дня назад

Sounds like simple, common sense; which these days is depressingly rare!!

@puttypiss 23 дня назад

Like every single system that this country runs under the railway system is completely broken beyond repair.. In privatisation the shareholders come first,second and third in the pecking order and NOT much needed investment to actually make trains run not just on time but to make them run at all.

@mgutierrez7737 20 дней назад

privatisation with 10 year contracts was the problem, should've had 5 years with a review every 2 years where standards have to be met or the bidding process restarts

@user-rr6gr7og9q 23 дня назад

Labour should start with re-nationalising water before the railways. Everybody uses water whereas not everybody uses the railways.

@denzel270 23 дня назад

Very simple, the estimated cost of nationalising the railways in £10 billion, £87 - £90 billion for water, £90 billion for energy.

@user-rr6gr7og9q 23 дня назад

@@denzel270 I’d pay them what they paid for it when it was sold by Thatcher.

@PhilipOwen-zw4sc 20 дней назад

Just discovered there was a student railcard introduced in late 1974 .

@NK-vd8xi 19 дней назад

Labour should adopt a Georgist model for natural monopolies!

@michaelfitzpatrick6264 21 день назад

So Mike, there weren’t any strikes in London then with its Labour Mayor ??

@nickjones9867 19 дней назад

Even in areas of free market competition, it can still be advantageous to have a public alternative. Helps keep the competition in check - the BBC is a great example of this. Whatever you think about BBC news (which I find deeply irritating that this is the only thing that is bought up when people talk about getting rid of the BBC as a whole), in other countries where there is no public broadcasting private companies go INSANE with adverts. sometimes 20 minute add breaks every 15 minutes. Doesn't happen in the UK because people will just switch to the BBC.

@user-eg4dv1bm2e 12 дней назад

They need to double down and go further on privatisation not go back to nationalised.

@Raturidesagain 16 дней назад

Take no risk? Aren’t they going bust because they don’t have enough passengers? Does the government pay them back their investment (plus a government bond yield-like return) if they “hand back the keys”?

@oliverharness4658 22 дня назад

Does anyone know what lynch is saying? Interpreter needed.

@timempson2146 22 дня назад

Anyone else remember how terrible British Rail was? Not great now but be careful what you ask for. This plan does not change the rolling stock leasing companies - these are where the big profits are made!

@graemereid3976 20 дней назад

Only 5% of rail journeys are by train, whereas everyone buys food. Surely it's more important to nationalise the supermarkets, who have been profiteering from rising prices in recent years.This would have the added advantage of standardising diets and eliminating obesity -- then we'll have utopia.

@John-pr2gw 23 дня назад

I'm far from being a socialist.. But.. The railways, utilities, ports and airports should all be brought back into public ownership.

@leejack-qt2em 23 дня назад

That pretty much is socialism in a nutshell.

@jermainebryan813 23 дня назад

Here, here!!

@delgray1442 22 дня назад

Arent we going around in circles. Railways started off as private companies, then nationalised, then privatised and now labour wants to renationalise. If it goes that way, then question is how long before they become privatised again?

@PhilipOwen-zw4sc 20 дней назад

In the 1970s you had to buy a BR adult ticket when you got to the age of 14.

@OlanKenny 22 дня назад

Looks like, as said by many others, nothing more than a sticking tap. Semi-common on mainline tours as theres all sorts of stuff to get in there to get stuck. Little bit irritating far crews probably but nothing troubling.

@edwinwan02 23 дня назад

Privatisation can work if the private sector can make it better & profitable without government handouts. In economics, the term is called 'market failure'.

@thetragicyouth 22 дня назад

Why would they do that when they can make more money from loading the company with debt and paying it out to shareholders instead of investing it...??

@stephenhodgson3506 22 дня назад

The railways were never designed to be profitable just by passenger services. They were built as a means of moving goods and passengers were an after thought. Once the goods started to move onto the roads the major area to make a profit was taken away. It simply doesn't matter who runs the passenger services they cannot offer an opportunity for profits and service it is one or the other. Get the long haul goods back on the railways and they will make more money to offset passenger travel. It will get HGV's off the roads, improve road traffic movement and reduce the amount of money that has to be spent on road repairs.

@njp9554 22 дня назад

Nationalised railways infrastructure and our steel works

@Zkkr429 16 дней назад

Could you ask for a better more concise argument for nationalisation?

@edgyonetwo1 22 дня назад

Excellent; focus on the negatives that might never happen and ignore the carnage being wrought now. Shameful.

@michaelashall4523 22 дня назад

Perhaps thus right wing broadcaster could explain why his beloved Tories have noy placed one order for the high speed trains required for HS2, and the factory in Derby may now be shut.

@doublepick 22 дня назад

Lynch prevents the change needed to modernise the railways then criticises the operators for not making a success of the rail system. He’s just weird.

@malcolmsalter9262 22 дня назад

i can remember well the strikes under labour especialy the winter of discontent when calahan was suning himself on abarbados beach

@lindacurrie8817 20 дней назад

And I can clearly remember May, Boris, Truss (crashed the economy) and present time Sunak all 15 years worth. Also present time, tax payers money bailing out many private sector companies. Now let me think...Are the tax payers required to bail out the next big failure Thames Water and possibly the Royal Mail plus the Railways? What next? Yes I remember much more than you remember and do not have to hanker back 50 years. I could no point will solve nothing ......All happening 2024 all on the Tories watch. Nothing is working not for the hard working majority of UK citizens....Lest we not forgive the Tories and never forget for the next 50 years.

@johnpaulreed4862 23 дня назад

Absolutely ridiculous idea to nationalise and the unions are part of the problem with the rail service.

@user-lx1kd2ui1l 23 дня назад

It's strange how you go to EU countries and their systems when national owned run well and are cheaper than the UK.

@skinwalker_ 23 дня назад

The mark of a great country is one that provides its citizens with safety, medical, transportation and and economic & legal environment to work and conduct business. I am sorry but the UK is no longer a great country. Lets hope Labour can stop the rot.

@corvus1238 23 дня назад

Notice Ferrari keeps his Tory gob shut when he is faced with so much common sense. Hey Nick, YOU are part of the problem.

@pchilds80 17 дней назад

Make mr lynch transport minister

@songscoops4205 23 дня назад

The NHS is a disaster...

@mustrumridcully3853 23 дня назад

The NHS was made a disaster by the tories - look at the numbers of patients treated every time they get in after Labour.

@paulpb9138 23 дня назад

Nationalisation is likely to have little impact because the state is already heavily financially committed. Subsidies. As in the 1940's the nationalisation is driven by a political ideology rather than a complete vision of the future of railway in the UK. HS2. We could fully expect poorly defined objectives, no focus, unrealistic expectations by senior management and wasteful expense either by decision or default. Millennium Dome. I truly hope I am wrong, however history points that this cycle is yet another mechanism to transfer wealth into private hands, and again once the project fails and public services are again privatised. This is the real risk, and I fear natrionaisation is not the solution.

@colinpeck8257 23 дня назад

Soon train drivers will earn more the PM, craaazy, unions killing industry like the 1960's, Union leaders still living in their parent's council houses earning 150k a year...😮

@Paul-ws8lh 22 дня назад

I bet I know which papers you read.

@pollyannakarina 22 дня назад

While the toffs who sold it off still live in their mansions and stately homes with their offshore "tax arrangements". Grow up. Read a book. Listen. Learn. Evolve.

@grahamrogers9066 18 дней назад

name a country that has privatised railway in the world that makes money? some train drivers on more money then raf fighter pilots .

@jimcourt9164 22 дня назад

Tax payer funded £80k train drivers … oh dear !!!

@davidmchale5890 22 дня назад

Mr Ferrari you are so out of your depth when interviewing Mr Lynch

@thetruthful8388 22 дня назад

Will not happen because Tony Blair won’t allow it.

@MajorMinor1970 23 дня назад

Lynch didn't say no did he? Only a fool would believe the RMT won't go on strike even if Labour return British Rail to public ownership. As you are stood in the queue at the food bank I expect your hearts to be bleeding for the poor hard done by train drivers with their £60K starting salary, lucrative overtime, 6.5 weeks a year holiday, 4 day working week and one of the most lucrative pensions in the public or private sectors. But don't worry, they have the concerns of the traveling public at heart.

@kenhickford6581 23 дня назад

No matter private or Nationalised, the Public will not benefit a jot!

@Paul-ws8lh 22 дня назад

That’s the attitude!

@kenhickford6581 22 дня назад

@@Paul-ws8lh LOL!......So, are you saying there are benefits?

@Paul-ws8lh 22 дня назад

@@kenhickford6581 if managed properly, yes. A lot of money can be saved bringing it back in house and funnelling the money towards cheaper fares and reinvesting in maintenance to improve reliability. Too much emphasis at the moment is paying shareholder dividends

@sarahjaneross2918 23 дня назад

Starmer is flip flopping about renationalisation. Let's hope he flip flops back to it! 🤞

@user-sd3ik9rt6d 23 дня назад

He is doing his best to get elected first.

@sarahjaneross2918 23 дня назад

@user-sd3ik9rt6d It'll be a landslide, but hopefully he'll have some policies soon 🤞

@srfurley 23 дня назад

Prescott said Labour would take back years not renewing franchises as they expired; they didn’t. Labour said that they would review the Beeching proposals which had not yet taken place; they didn’t. Why would anybody believe anything that Labour say?

@sarahjaneross2918 23 дня назад

@srfurley personally , I've given up on Labour, but they're going to be the next government, so I guess we must keep up the pressure for more policies that actually benefit people and not their lobbyists friends 🤨

@fooddrinkfusion1013 23 дня назад

He'll have to check with his masters first😂 The value of Chinn’s donations to Labour MPs is £195,210, over one quarter of which was provided to Starmer during his leadership campaign in 2020. Starmer failed to declare this donation until after he had won the election. Since the 1980s, Chinn has funded LFI and Conservative Friends of Israel and played a leading role in groups such as the British Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) and the Jewish Leadership Council. The Guardian described BICOM in 2009 as “Britain’s most active pro-Israel lobbying organisation - which flies journalists to Israel on fact-finding trips and organises access to senior government figures

@ryanoneill2352 23 дня назад

Fewer, not less.

@lindacurrie8817 20 дней назад

This free market Tories go on about when nothing is free always many lose out. Never those at the top of the ladder always those at the bottom receive the wacks.

@daves4026 22 дня назад

Renationalise this Tory debacle

@dandybean 23 дня назад

Lynch4PM

@mariusb5150 23 дня назад

Ah ... a critical journalist ... it's a bit sad that mr. Ferrari uses his critical capacities primarily when interviewing those not in power.

@iTankSometimes 23 дня назад

Unless there are less strikes his words are worthless

@sapiotone 23 дня назад

*Fewer

@sapiotone 23 дня назад

Thanks for updating your thumbnail, LBC! 🙂

@user-lk1lw8bj9g 23 дня назад

Those who are old enough to remember will tell you that the railways were a disaster before they were privatised. ASLEF & the NUR were always on strike, and usually when the weather was at its coldest, i.e the Winter. I'm not against bring them back into public ownership, but for goodness sake, let's get it right.

@petersmith4455 23 дня назад

blame Maggi Thatcher for privitasation, come back British Railways !

@SaulidSnake 23 дня назад

It was John Major

@PowerhousePearson 23 дня назад

🫡👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@steviet4103 23 дня назад

Great loads more compo for late trains 👍

@kuramobay2445 23 дня назад

No worries. Starmer is about to flip-flop on this.

@ejc636 23 дня назад

Mr mike lynch on 300k per year. Without any education.

@Paul-ws8lh 22 дня назад

£80k actually but don’t worry about actual facts.

@ohyeah2816 23 дня назад

Vote Labour.👍✌

@reggiesmith3866 23 дня назад

Lynch will be celebrating as the Tories are on the way out and Labour likely to gain power soon {though not under Corbin as he would have preferred), and renationalise the railways, which is exactly what he wants. The many strikes by his members have been partly political in the hope of achieving this. The privatisation of the railways under John Major was a bureacratic minefield with the system split into many different companies but the former nationalised system run by BR was far from perfect with lines such as the old Great Central deliberately run down and its traffic diverted to other routes so that a case could me made for closure. Its demise is now recognised as a huge mistake. As for Lynch and his brothers, after a period of grace the threat of strikes will return as a means of levering ever higher rates of pay for his members and railway travel will continue to cost more than many can afford.