On 5 Sep, 23:28, 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, 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).
That is foriegn companies won't be able to buy into our economy -
further integrating our own economy into the EU and effectively
exporting our own services to us!

That is utter rubbish. There is no EU obligation or compulsion for
public transport to be in private ownership (slowly slowly or
otherwise).

The only thing I can think of which is even vaguely relevant is the
obligation for national rail operators to account for track and train
operations separately (note: not the same thing as operating them
separately), in order to allow fair pricing for international rail
flows.

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