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Old September 6th 07, 12:30 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Richard J. Richard J. is offline
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Default Bob Crow Eurosceptic?

Jim Gemineye wrote:
Bob Crow wants the underground, railways and buses back in public
ownership.
I couldn't agree more, because I'm a Eurosceptic,


You don't need to be a Eurosceptic to agree with that.

but does Bob Crow
realise that if we nationalise our transport system we will be in
breach of the EU policy of economic liberalisation (as they put it).


In Paris, the Metro and buses are nationalised (or perhaps
"regionalised"; not privatised anyway). French railways have split the
infrastructure organisation (RFF) from the trains (SNCF) to meet EU
accounting rules, but both are still nationalised. Why couldn't we do
the same?

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