I could not believe it when Bob Crowe of the rail Union told me on Sky that crashes were the result of privatisation. The figures show the privatised railway has been safer than its nationalised predecessor. This latest crash was most probably caused by track mistakes made by a government financed monopoly company which took the maintenance back in house.It was poor taste to try and turn a discussion about how we can make the railways safer into a spat over privatisation. It was foolish to do so when it is likely that a company that is effectively a nationalised concern is probably responsible for the tragic mistake.

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