Good to see Simon Burns MP acknowledging the herculean efforts of his own employees!
Despite East Coast operating on a railway that last received significant investment in the 1980s and sweating a train fleet with an even older age profile our Burnsy is apparently peeved that the state owned operator isn't run by Beardie Rail.
Mr Toad opined in the House of Commons yesterday that East Coast performed ‘reasonably well’ but it is ‘plateauing’. "What it needs is an infusion of innovation and a stimulus, which I believe only the private sector can do".
Quite so minister, quite so.
And all those franchises in revenue support are clearly a testament to the private sector's skill at both innovation and stimulus!
Meanwhile the searing intellect that resides in the Honourable Member for Poop-Poop claimed he 'did not accept the premise' of an ORR report which last week announced that East Coast made the second highest TOC payment into Treasury coffers.
Still, a pleasure to see that Third Degree Burns is keen to throw good money after bad whilst belittling his own workforce.
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