Metro Centre

Ah, "the centre ground"! Don't you just love it?

With no knowledge of anywhere outside London, and therefore assuming that the excellent Tyne & Wear Metro must be as problem-strewn as the Tube (well, it is part of the hated public sector, after all), some schoolboy at The Think Tank (there's really only one, although it publishes under several names in order to deceive) has decreed that the politicians who exist purely to do the bidding of him and his must hand over the Metro to the private sector that funds both him and them, and specifically to Deutsche Bahn, a subsidiary of the German rail giant DB Regio.

You can believe in the "free" market (in this and so many other cases a license to print money in the form of public subsidies), or you can believe in national sovereignty. You can't do both. The "centre" ground believes, and is paid handsomely to believe, in the former. If you believe in the latter, then you are just going to have to eschew all three "centre ground" parties and make your own electoral arrangements.