Starmer Must Have His Head In His Hands.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1986036/angela-rayner-sky-news-interview-immigration

talk about a car crash!

[webbo3]

She's a post turtle.

[Deskdiary]

If Starmer's got any sense (which is debatable) he should stop this ghastly woman from being interviewed. She just simply does not have the brains to think on her feet. Her Newsnight interview last week about employment law reforms was equally as bad as this one - she's just simply a bit dim.

[naomi24]

She is dim but more worrying is Starmer is too dim to recognise it.

[jackthehat]

It looks like the entire cabinet have been promoted to positions far beyond their abilities.

They can neither put forwards their policies with any authority nor engender confidence that Labour are a safe pair of hands to get the country 'back on track'.

[douglas9401]

Taking back control of the trains is a start, on track-wise.

[david small]

Starmer has his head so far up his fundament that he could roll down hill. I think he likes the view.

[Togo]

//Starmer Must Have His Head In His Hands.....//

He's got it somewhere for sure. In his hands is the kind assumption. 

[davebro3]

This gov is becoming a laughing stock - and gully & co thought Boris was a joke.🤣

[Togo]

He can't give her the elbow though   ...    or she tells the truth about curry nights out on the booxe. 

[New Judge]

“Taking back control of the trains is a start, on track-wise.”

I don’t know if anybody has told them, but the railways are already largely under government control, duggie.

At present, essentially the only aspect of railway operations that are in private hands and which the government plans to nationalise are the franchised train operations. The infrastructure, together with some of the larger stations, are owned, managed, maintained and developed by Network Rail, which is a governmental organisation.

The Rolling Stock Companies (“Roscos”) own the locomotives, passenger carriages and multiple units and the majority of freight wagons. There are no plans to nationalise these companies because it would cost far too much and sequestration of assets without compensation is, unsurprisingly, not on even this government’s agenda.

So that just leaves the train operators (TOCs). At present they pay a franchise fee to the government for the privilege of running their services. Among the important conditions of all franchise agreements: 

- they must run trains to the level of services in their franchise agreement; 

- they cannot make changes to their timetables without the agreement of Network Rail; 

- they must provide suitable rolling stock in accordance with their franchise agreement; 

- they must pay track access charges to Network Rail to run their services; 

- they must meet performance targets laid out in their agreement . 

In summary, the private TOCs (the only section of the railway industry the government intends to re-nationalise) are already heavily regulated and bound by conditions set by the government which are unlikely to change significantly when their franchises expire and are not renewed.

The only thing that will change is the franchise fees which TOCs bring to the industry will, of course, be lost. So that means that in order for the railways to simply stay as they are, those franchise fees will have to be replaced by an increase in government grants.
 

[youngmafbog]

I'm not so sure our Ange is dim.  I think the problem is more that she is not educated.  Hardly surprising when you sprog at a very young age.

2TK cant get rid of nther though, she is the Union placement.

[gramps85]

At least she makes Diane Abbot seem intelligent.

[Paul22118]

young bog @1225.

Bang on with your view about Rayner.  She simply has not had the opportunity of a decent education and is thus struggling to engage in serious debate. She is far from stupid and can shout the odds very well but cannot engage in sensible debate.