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The Theft of Railtrack

Yesterday in the London Sunday Times, a leaked secret internal document revealed that Byers and the the rest of the criminal gang that is the Labour Cabinet let Railtrack go under. Like the Chinese with Rover, they wanted it on the cheap. What's more they were the ones to cause it to collapse after they had placed unreasonable demands to improve safety.

This is only the tip of the iceberg of what will eventually be revealed (probably in about 30 years time). This will probably be dismissed as a 'Conspiracy Theory' or the 'Ramblings of a Drunken Madman'. And they would be right on one of those points, but all evidence does point to a massive conspiracy by Bliar and his cronies.

Fact: Blair was in trouble at the time of the Hatfield crash. There were Petrol Protests (or more likely Diesel Demos, since it was a bunch of truckers) going on and the protesters had widespread public support as that blood sucking leech Grodon Brown tried to extract every last drop from these hard working people. It looked like a major crisis with nothing old smiley face could do about it.

Then along comes a Rail Accident, and surprise, surprise, the whole network is shut down (made unusuable). If the Petrol Protestors carry on with their actions then they would be criminals, seeing as the rest of the country have no other way of getting round. Being considerate people and not ruthless power grubbing nutters like the people they were dealing with, the protest melted away never to return. Game Set and Match to Mr Blair!

Now let's look at a few things surrounding the accident. It was a dreadful accident and naturally I would not wish anything like that on the victims, but it is a statistical inevitablity that eventually occur by chance simply because any form of high speed transportation is dangerous. (or was it by chance - see postscript below). They seized upon the opportunity and, how convenient, Railtrack a Private Company was to blame. They could now appeal their decision to shut down to the masses who have been brainwashed by years of Marxist ideology. It was those profiteering capitalists in their top hats who are to blame. Their persuit of profit had been made at the expense of the safety of the expendable proles who used their transport system.

So they placed an unreasonable financial burden on Railtrack forcing it to make thousands of unnecessary safety improvements. (This undermines another Tenet of Socialist thinking the economic concept of limited resources and marginal return on investment of resource are unknown to them). It goes under after no help is given from the government in the persuit of its unreasonable directive and the Fat Controllers get their company taken away from them in the interest of public safety.

Now here's a thing: the "safety" program has forced people back onto the roads (remember the railways were chaotic), but road travel is many times more dangerous than rail travel. So the extra people on the roads faced a bigger threat for the time the railway was out and statistically more of them died ENOUGH FOR SEVERAL HATFIELDS. I rest my case this was not about safety.

Of course as it turned out, the Fat Controllers were a bunch of ordinary shareholders like you and me. They have taken the government to court but believe me they won't stand a chance because the case will be dragged out by legal technicalities somewhere into the 2020's when people will have lost interest in what' s going on.

I feel like the Newscaster in Robocop giving encouragement to Clarence Bodigers latest victim.

GOOD LUCK RAILTRACKERS!


Postscript:

Now I have revealed the truth to the world, I can almost see it in my mind's eye: one of Tony's henchmen with a massive spanner in the dead of night unloostening that bolt. I can almost see him turning the handle himself - he's that greedy for power.

posted by gruad @ 12:39 pm