The 100 per cent and higher increases in fares on Northern Rail from today would rightly be a national scandal if they were happening on the London Underground or in the commuter belts of the South East.
Politically, it would be impossible there, and I have no problem with that. It ought also to be unconscionable here.
Northern Rail is owned by Serco, which with G4S was today found before the Public Accounts Committee to be too big to fail as a matter of government policy, so that the public contracts, franchises and other subsidies must flow to them without limit in any sense.
Yet that is not considered not considered news, either.
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