This piece of grandstanding tosh from the Tories:
Commenting on the news that the Government has ruled out an inquiry into the Potters Bar and Grayrigg rail crashes, Shadow Transport Secretary, Theresa Villiers, said:
“This is a real blow for the families of those who died in these terrible crashes. It is unacceptable for the Government to have left those campaigning tirelessly for a Potters Bar inquiry hanging on for seven years. The delay has only served to increase the distress to those who were injured or lost loved ones as a result of the crash."
Hmmm.
One of the reasons that organisations like the RMT, and others, have called for a public inquiry rather than an inquest is to see what role privatisation played in these two major accidents.
That would of course be the same privatisation carried out by the "back to basics" adulterer John Major in the dying days of the last Tory govenment.
The same privatisation that destroyed an integrated railway on dogmatic grounds and added billions to its annual operating costs.
A privatisation that even Chris Grayling, the former Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, had to conceed was a 'mistake'.
Perhaps best to butt out of this one Theresa.
