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The curious case of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s disappearing bus route (www.newstatesman.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well really Rees-Mogg is responsible. Westminster has been cutting funding to councils for years, they can't afford it.

Then you have bus companies with their own unscrupulous tactics, not servicing their contracted routes (for little to no penalty - it's cheaper to pay the fine and not pay for a driver) and structuring their businesses with Hollywood style accounting, such that the public facing local businesses operate at a loss while the main group rakes in the profit.

Ultimately, it all falls down to poor regulation by Westminster. Which Rees-Mogg has championed.