Amongst senior industry figures the take on today's New Franchising Policy has been somewhat upbeat.
Phrases like: 'competent', 'pleased', 'deliverable' and 'making the very best of a bad job' abound.
Meanwhile there is near euphoria in Peterborough, the home of RAIL, as tomorrow (Wednesday) is press day.
After much lobbying it appears that DfT has finally gotten the message!
Today's announce allows RAIL scribes to analyse the New Franchising Policy so that subscribers can ruminate over both it and their cornflakes on Saturday morning.
And as any ful kno RAIL has '523,198 copy sales a year with an estimated 2,615,990 readers'.
