Post AogMw1eXJS1ajmpxz6 by slowe@mastodon.me.uk
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 (DIR) Post #Aog8AWBD71Aq9nZZNA by LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot
       2024-12-03T19:37:12Z
       
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       Listening to radio, BBC news just described how a failing rail franchise was to be the *first* in the UK taken back into national ownership. As usual, by "UK", the BBC means England - ScotRail was taken into government ownership two years ago. Ah, the London-based media blinkers - if it hasn't happened in Englandshire it doesn't count. Quality journalism and reporting... Sigh.
       
 (DIR) Post #AogMw1eXJS1ajmpxz6 by slowe@mastodon.me.uk
       2024-12-03T22:22:34Z
       
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       @LordWoolamaloo Aren't LNER, Northern, and TransPennine all owned by the UK Government already? So it isn't the first in England. The BBC story at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqlnrgjr79o qualifies it as the first of the current UK Government (since July).
       
 (DIR) Post #AogOH7Q9A9k6f5jDpg by LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot
       2024-12-03T22:37:41Z
       
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       @slowe I noticed the next radio news bulletin they had amended it to "the first in the UK since Labour were in government" so obviously someone spotted that they had ballsed it up.