SCOTS commuters were told yesterday that there is still time for them
to protest about the privatisation of British Rail.
The Save Our Railways group, convened by the STUC, yesterday offered
leaflets at stations across the country and in particular at Ayr,
Stirling, and Stranraer, where the local Conservative MPs supported the
privatisation legislation.
STUC assistant secretary Richard Leonard said that on his next visit
to Scotland, Transport Minister Roger Freeman should seek the views of
the people of Scotland rather than those of the men in pinstripe suits
from Edinburgh's Charlotte Square whom he was seeking to interest in
financing privatisation.
Labour transport spokesman Brian Wilson MP said the Government's
defeat in the House of Lords this week, on an amendment giving BR the
right to compete for franchises, offered the campaign an opportunity.
He said: ''We now have a clear campaigning focus -- to make it
politically impossible for the Government to overturn the amendment.''
He also drew attention to the threat to Strathclyde Passenger
Transport Executive from local government reorganisation, since it would
require an alliance of different neighbouring councils to maintain the
present service.
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