It is a nice little bit of viral advertising from the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Affiliation, which google tells me is a commerce union for employees within the transport and journey industries in the UK and Eire.
That is a watch opener pic.twitter.com/PMplLC75cc
— Valerie Farrington 💙 (@Valhalla51) August 17, 2022
The video does a unbelievable job of exposing how a lot of Britain’s privatised infrastructure has been wolfed up by European State Owned firms.
In accordance to full truth:
The French authorities is a significant shareholder in one of many Massive Six power suppliers within the UK. EDF Power is a part of the French EDF Group. The French authorities is almost all shareholder within the group, with 83% of shares, as of September 2017.
Of the opposite huge six power firms, E.ON is predicated in Germany. N Energy is a part of the Innogy group, one other German firm. Scottish Energy is a part of the Iberdrola Group (an organization based mostly in Spain).
A German firm, Deutsche Bahn, runs a number of UK rail franchises—Arriva Trains Wales, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, Grand Central, and Northern. The German authorities is Deutsche Bahn’s majority shareholder.
Rail journey in France is run by a state-operated rail firm, SNCF. SNCF can be the bulk shareholder in a French personal transport agency referred to as Keolis which in flip collectively runs railway firm Govia with the UK Go-Forward Group. Govia operates UK franchises: Thameslink, Southern, South Japanese, Nice Northern, and Gatwick Categorical.
Better Anglia, Stansted Categorical and Scotrail are all operated by Abellio. Abellio is run by Netherlands Rail whose solely shareholder is the Dutch authorities.
Abellio has partnerships with different companies to run rail franchises. Together with the Japanese firms Mitsui & Co. and East Japan Railway it runs London Northwestern and West Midlands Rail. Abellio additionally runs Merseyrail with UK-based Serco.
The c2c franchise is operated by Trenitalia. Trenitalia is a part of the FS Italiane Group which is owned by the Italian authorities.
A German firm, Deutsche Bahn, runs a number of UK rail franchises—Arriva Trains Wales, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, Grand Central, and Northern. The German authorities is Deutsche Bahn’s majority shareholder.
Rail journey in France is run by a state-operated rail firm, SNCF. SNCF can be the bulk shareholder in a French personal transport agency referred to as Keolis which in flip collectively runs railway firm Govia with the UK Go-Forward Group. Govia operates UK franchises: Thameslink, Southern, South Japanese, Nice Northern, and Gatwick Categorical.
Better Anglia, Stansted Categorical and Scotrail are all operated by Abellio. Abellio is run by Netherlands Rail whose solely shareholder is the Dutch authorities.
Abellio has partnerships with different companies to run rail franchises. Together with the Japanese firms Mitsui & Co. and East Japan Railway it runs London Northwestern and West Midlands Rail. Abellio additionally runs Merseyrail with UK-based Serco.
The c2c franchise is operated by Trenitalia. Trenitalia is a part of the FS Italiane Group which is owned by the Italian authorities.
Taking again management or giving it away?
Privatising UK rail, usually to international nationalised rail firms did imply decrease fares are higher rail companies – however of their international locations.
— Locke (@jlz0z) November 19, 2021
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