Re: BBC Wales (and Rail Magazine) - Tom Harris Quote On Rail
Privatisation
On 24 Jun, 11:14, judith wrote:
> >Presumably the Tories were advised by "experts" from the railway industry.
>
> Yes - there were at least three people:
> John Prideaux, Sandy Anderson, and an Andrew Jukes - I don't know what
> happened to them.
No, as David Hansen says upthread, Prideaux, Anderson and Jukes were
*not* advising the Tories on the ROSCO sale. Rather, having been
excluded from the process, they realised the Tories and their banker
friends were likely to undervalue the ROSCOs and put together
consortia to bid for them, which were ultimately successful.
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John Band
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date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:23:23 -0700 (PDT)
author: John B
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Re: BBC Wales (and Rail Magazine) - Tom Harris Quote On Rail Privatisation
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David Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:01:04 +0100 someone who may be "Brimstone"
> wrote this:-
>
> >> But the shafting was done by...?
> >
> >Politicians (of both persuasions) and civil servants.
>
> Expressed far better than I could have done.
>
So incompetent management had nothing to do with it then?
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Graeme Wall
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date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:24:06 +0100
author: Graeme Wall
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