Letter: Railways in a mess
It is approaching 20 years since John Major made a massive mess of our railways. He sold them off on the cheap to private bidders.
Since then fares have more than doubled, up by 102 per cent since 1995, and taxpayer subsidy has quadrupled to £3.8 billion a year.
Britain has the most inefficient and most expensive rail system in Europe. Among all this mess the privateers are raking in the profits.
This is just one example - gas, electricity are among some of the others - of private ownership making a mess of what should be in public ownership.
Watchdogs have been ineffective in controlling these monopolies or cartels.
They certainly haven't created competition which we were promised. What they have done is created a rip-off culture among private companies.
A J Plant, New Works
