Splendid news. The Prime Minister shares passenger outrage over fares increases.
This extra-ordinary statement was quoted in Saturday's Daily Telegraph:
'A spokesman for Gordon Brown said "It is clear that passengers have concerns about the value for money they receive from train companies. It is a matter for the rail companies to explain why they have made the decisions they have made".'
The Fact Compiler is speechless.
UPDATE: The Fact Compiler is grateful to a distinguished Railway Eye reader for the following:
"The tragedy of much government mishandling of the industry is that no-one - including Atoc, which is meant to be their industry association, for goodness' sake - is willing to make a fuss about it.
"First got plenty of stuff wrong on Great Western but they also took flak that should rightly have gone to the government for the reassignment of the Class 158s to areas that just happen to have lots of Labour MPs.
To quote (in expurgated fashion) Bunk, the coolest detective in cult TV series The Wire, "Sometimes it makes me sick how far we done fell."
Quite so.
