RIP-OFF BRITAIN.

RIP-OFF BRITAIN.

Since the Chinese government bought South West Trains,75% of Britains railways are owned by Chinese,Italian,German,French,Dutch,Belgium,Singapore and Qatari governments. This means that although our government does not want to nationalise our rail network they don't mind if other countries governments do. When polled, 60% of British people want our railways to be run by our government.

These other governments have forced grossly unfair prices on Britain's rail users so that their state owned rail services can subsidise their domestic services. Italian operator C2C charges us 2.4 times the amount it charges in Italy. A 35 mile rail trip monthly season ticket from Maidstone costs passengers £412.50. In Germany, a 36 mile trip from Luckenwalde to Berlin is £99.80. Rail bosses here say it's dearer because our services are quicker and more frequent. Surely not quicker and more frequent enough to warrant a £312.70 difference.

This foreign ownership of out  companies is not only our rail network. 4 out 6 energy firms are French, German and Spanish owned. We are all well aware of the high costs of energy bills here which are much higher than in Europe. We are subsidising foreign state owned energy firms when our own government refuse to do anything to curb this blatant profiteering.

 All our major airports are foreign owned and only 3 out of 10 water companies are owned by British firms. The French and Chinese governments are building nuclear power stations here. You can guess what will happen to prices when these are up and running.

These are not the only examples of how the Great British rip off is working. There will be a lot more examples next time, but as usual, typo's are creeping in so time stop.