(17 Aug 2016, 8:30 am)eezypeazy wrote Oh dear... doesn't that mean that the many billions of pounds invested by shareholders in trains and buses will also cease?

So shareholders will invest their money elsewhere - possibly overseas - making it a double-whammy - overseas countries suddenly get investors interested in helping their businesses grow by investing in them, while the UK transport industry needs public investment by the Labour government, that doesn't have any money, so they go out and borrow it at what are presently historically low interest rates, which are not attractive to today's investors... so the government has difficulty raising cash that way, so resorts to good old-fashioned taxes to do it... which makes us all poorer!

Don'tcha just love left-wing politics?

Two technical queries:
1. What has trains got to do with extend the Bus Services Bill provisions to the whole of the UK BUS operating industry?
2. I thought the main "shareholder" investing billions in Britain's trains was the Tax-payer.

Its interesting that those who decry what they themselves call "left wing politics", talk endlessly about investors, shareholders, entrepreneurs, politicians, bureaucrats etc etc.    but hardly ever mention customers, passengers etc.