Showing posts with label transport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transport. Show all posts
Thursday, 15 December 2016

Govia’s Southern Rail made a unique deal with government. The cost of any strike action is borne by the taxpayer. £50m so far

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Chris and KJ realise it's Govia Southern Rail that has us over a barrel... SOURCE TELEGRAPH : Taxpayers foot £50m bill for South...
Friday, 28 October 2016

London gets another big cheque, for Heathrow. Is this why Brexit?

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Yes, say Fee, Chris and KJ... SOURCE:  Centre For Cities “Cities Outlook 2015” report The last 10 years have seen a great degr...
Wednesday, 20 August 2014

From January 2015, rail fares will rise by 3.5%. That’s up 25% since 2010

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Can KJ, Chris and Fee find a silver lining?...
Saturday, 16 August 2014

Graphs at a glance: East Coast Mainline. Why is the government so quiet about one of its greatest success stories?

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You would have thought a company delivering record levels of cash to the taxpayer would have something to boast about. Surely its bosse...
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Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Why do the Tories want to privatise the successful state-owned East Coast Mainline? The clue is in the question

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Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Graphs at a glance: The UK has the worst investment record of the 27 EU nations, so where does all the money go?

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For years one of the favourite excuses for making all us Ripped-off Britons worse off by hiking prices and keeping down wages has been the n...
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Tuesday, 8 July 2014

£50m Network Rail fine means less money for maintenance. But more for super-fast wi-fi. Go figure

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Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Nike’s England shirt is £90. An excellent early lesson for your kids on the power of having a monopoly

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Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Lessons on the dangers of loan sharks are being launched in our schools. Why stop with loan sharks?

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Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Watching Channel 4's Benefits Street? How about Bank Bailout Boulevard and Tax Dodger's Bypass...

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Tuesday, 5 November 2013

The cost of infrastructure: Big Corporate has become the government's tax collector

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Friday, 1 November 2013

Both Cameron and Miliband promise to stop billions in corporate rip-offs. Oh yeah?

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Fee, Chris and KJ try not to forget the oldest marketing trick in the book...
Sunday, 20 October 2013

Graphs at a glance: Despite all the promises to spread the sugar London is the big winner from the HS2 high speed rail link

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At the Tory party conference in October 2013 David Cameron claimed HS2 "is about bringing north and south together" creating cent...
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Saturday, 5 October 2013

Even when privatisation results in an overall benefit, the benefits are swiped leaving the public as the loser

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"காக்கைக்கும் தன் குஞ்சு பொன் குஞ்சு" -   “Even a crow thinks its child is golden”. This proverb out of ancient India applies pa...
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Friday, 5 July 2013

Non-European foreigners face more charges to access NHS

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Fee and KJ do the sums, even if the government can't...
Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Ministers accused of “bending” the new high-speed rail line to avoid George Osborne’s affluent constituency

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Cameron is reassured by George Osborne...
Sunday, 23 December 2012

New Years Resolution - Transport Industry

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By Richard Hebditch,  Campaigns Director,  Campaign for Better Transport. The one New Year's resolution Campaign for Better Trans...
Saturday, 6 October 2012

The OFT says insurers are inflating costs for repairs and hire vehicles by £225m a year

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Chris and his wife find out the hard way...
Friday, 28 September 2012

Consumers 'lose £11bn a year' in financial scams and rip-offs

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KJ and Fee discuss the report by consumer expert and boss of Cooperatives UK...
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Sunday, 23 September 2012

Rail fare increases - gouging profits or a stealth tax?

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditu...
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