This from the Archer...
Further to Eye's earlier piece on RAIL's expose of the doomed nature of railway financing, did anyone else hear Michael Roberts of ATOC on Radio 5 this morning?
He rolled out the following amazing statistic:
"For every pound that is spent on services by the government just one penny is spent on running the railways."
To Listen Again click here and go to 1:51.51 into the programme.
The canny journalist obviously wasn’t going to be caught out by what he must have thought was an All Fools' day wind-up.
If only this were so!
UPDATE: This just in from @EdwardWelsh, not via Twitter...
I am delighted to see that it wasn't just Michael and I who were up at the crack of dawn this morning.
I am confused, however, why you think that "services" applies only to train services?
When talking to a national audience, I think you can safely assume that they would know he was referring to all government services and not just train services.
Happy All Fools' Day.
