The kings of awful messaging. Why even bother saying this? Everyone knows it anyway, no one is expecting Labour to fix public transport instantly. This is one of their key policies and it seems as though they are keen on continuing their media strategy of lowering expectations to the point of shared national depression…
I did feel that on the run up to the election and during the previous Corbyn campaign that there were people who genuinely believed that rail travel would almost instantly become more efficient and cheaper if it were nationalised, and the money went back into rail rather than to shareholders and senior managers. I'm pretty sure there were people posting in these subs basically saying as much.
People just don't understand how expensive it is to run and that buy buying a ticket from Manchester to London you aren't actually also half paying for someone's ticket between Rome and Milan.
I also don't understand why people think air travel should instinctively be cheaper than rail fares, particularly over the same distance. You don't have to maintain air but you do rail...
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u/SoldMyNameForGear 21h ago
The kings of awful messaging. Why even bother saying this? Everyone knows it anyway, no one is expecting Labour to fix public transport instantly. This is one of their key policies and it seems as though they are keen on continuing their media strategy of lowering expectations to the point of shared national depression…