imo before the North East does any form of nationalisating of public transport they need to change who's at the top at I'd have no hope at Nexus doing anything better. They've been absolutely useless for years and it'll just be the Tories, Stadler, Arriva, the wind, contractors, leaves and so on why things are going wrong.

Personally can't see anyone touching it with a barge pole until Manchester does theirs, as they have the biggest potential outside of London and if they can't make it work then no-one will.