The reason the train network (and most public services) is in such a state is because of the Tory government not investing in them from 79-97 when they were in power, and in the case of the trains the shody way hte network was broken donw and sold off when it was privatised, which was deliberately done messily so no future government could realistically bring the network back under state control. The government has little control over the state of our public transport these days – it may be called public but it is all run by private companies that are in it to make money first and foremost not run a good service.
Labour may not have done much of a job of sorting out the mess the Tories left the public services in, but to hand power back to the people that made that mess is just foolish – at least they have made some sort of attempt and the intentions to sort things out are there, instead of the intention to run them all down quite deliberately.
I think the thing is for many of the younger members they have no real experience of life under a Tory government and so all they know is that things are a mess and this government is to blame – which it is in a sense for not making enough of their time in power – but they have no knowledge of the fact of why the mess is there in the first place having not lived through it.
As for the Euro – soon enough Blair will be gone and Brown in – Blair wanted the Euro and Brown never has so there’s no need to worry on that one – thats why he set his famous 5 economic tests before there would be any referendum – he knew they would never be met and thus could frustrate Blair’s frankly bad idea.
