if you peel back all the good words and just look materially what it's proposing, which is

essentially the reintegration of the private train operating companies. So those are just the

companies that put staff on trains, put staff in some of the medium and smaller stations,

those companies. All the ones that like a customer facing and everyone hates.

So goodbye to Avanti, goodbye to LNER, et cetera, et cetera.

Well, yeah, actually, I don't know if LNER will still continue to be a thing or whether

they'll also get absorbed.

Given the LNR are currently still a, kind of a nationally operated kind of a half-s pseudo-service.

This was sort of my first thing is that like so much of this stuff has kind of

already happened.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, this is it. It gets back to the fact that this is kind of, so the current government have said they,

broadly their plan is similar, but they're not going to, they want the private operators

to, or they want the train operating companies to remain as private entities, but they say

that, but the current government have said that the public, you know, the public bodies could run them, which means by default that public bodies would end up running them

because private, there's a reason why it's becoming harder and harder to get private companies

to get involved in the train operating companies, the franchises of a rail system because

the whole thing's disintegrated. So kind of by default, the current government are proposing

what Labor are making a big song and

dance about. So that's kind of the first thing, is that the reality is that there's very

little between what's currently being proposed by the Conservatives and what's actually

being proposed here. If you peel back all the good talking, there's lots of good stuff in

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