Haha, I didnt want to get into politics, but seeing as you asked...

Seriously though, it might not be a vote winner, but the author seems to have some valid ideas and points.
Seeing as de-regulation hasn't really worked and privatisation of the trains hasn't been a roaring success - seen more recently with the failure on the wcml contracts and the insistence on putting the ecml back into private hands, coming up with alternatives like this makes interesting reading