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Its always easy to pick you some things that are worse. But the UK train system was terrible and getting more terrible constantly year after year with total stagnation of new lines and other advancements.

You can just as easily point to a number of other metrics that 'private' or whatever you want to call it British system has actually improved.

The people dislike of anything to do with privatization ends up people and journalist just looking for the problems. But the problems they find are not actually that much worse then the problems they had before.




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