Nationalisation could be a masterstroke for the Tories – Herald letters
WHEN Conservative MP Robert Adley warned against the dangers of
privatisation he held up a British Rail timetable – ” a wonderful book” –
explaining that it allowed passengers (and freight) to travel smoothly from
Wick to Penzance on a single ticket. Mr Adley has been vindicated. It’s sad
he’s not around to see it.
The Williams-Shapps report (“Scottish Government hits out over UK railways
shake-up”, The Herald, May 21) should have gone further in allowing a
directly-operated service to run the entire network – LNER has shown it’s a
model to follow.
Rail nationalisation is one of the most popular policies with the
electorate and if the Tories adopted it completely it would make people ask
“what’s the point of Labour?”. Furthermore, while privatisation pulled the
Union apart, nationalisation pulls it together.
It’s only sensible that in the new set-up ScotRail services should be
incorporated into Great British Railways – the UK network is a single
entity and there is no border at Berwick.
The same logic should be applied to the UK’s fragmented and privatised
electricity generation system, where numerous private suppliers lose
economies of scale and with their snouts in the troughs of wind power
subsidies ensure that electricity bills will rise at an exponential rate.
William Loneskie, Lauder.
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