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1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 10:32:32 EDT iona 🐝

   Major incident on Northern Rail - thousands of cancelled trains for weeks and no end to the chaos in sight.

   It has been dreadful for years. I don't know anyone in the North who commutes by train who hasn't either lost a job or been threatened with disciplinary action for lateness and non attendance.

   If the service was in the South there would be acres of newsprint and hours of BBC coverage devoted to it.

   http://www.wired.co.uk/article/northern-rail-emergency-timetable-cancellations

   1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 10:41:47 EDT iona 🐝

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      It's a UK-wide issue, but particularly in the North I feel like we pay Western European levels of tax and living costs for what increasingly feels like a US level of public services and social safety nets.

      Where all the money is going, I don't know. I don't object to paying tax, but I do object to paying the same kind of tax that they do in Germany or Sweden for far inferior services. Someone is getting wealthy here.