Professor John Robertson OBA

The Herald’s Martin Williams today has – ScotRail costs double under nationalisation as services fall – based entirely on a report by the Taxpayer’s Alliance a group known for hiding its sources of funding (above) and for highly selective analyses always predisposed to finding evidence in favour of privatisation.

I really doubt the value of spending time looking in detail at the report. The group’s long history of cheating and lying on behalf of the rich and powerful makes them instantly unworthy of our time and Martin Williams knows that.

What he is, in fact, arguing for is the private extraction of wealth from taxpayers into the pockets of the rich which we see all-too-clearly in the daily media reporting of the horrific costs of water, rail and energy privatisation since the1980s.

For a quick read on the above: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/17/privatisation-premium-billions-from-uk-energy-bills-paid-to-shareholders

For more detail: https://labourhub.org.uk/2025/09/18/britains-privatisation-disaster-the-figures-speak-for-themselves/