Oh dear! The Department of Transport seems to have created a real cock-up and poured fire on the left wingers calls to re-privatise the rail network. The agreement with First Direct seems to have been cancelled (how?) and St. Richard of Branson has been asked, very nicely with a cherry on top, if he wouldn't mind letting his trains carry on until the Department sort this out and not give him the contract a second time. As far as I understand it, the figures put forward by First Direct apparently did not add up. Despite this, they were still awarded the contract! When the poor arithmetic was discovered, the contract was cancelled! This does not make sense!
But do not worry! Someone from the Dept. of Transport has appeared on telly and admitted that this mess would cost some money to sort out! Was he the Fat Controller? He was, after all, quite a portly gentleman. He also did apologise, so that is all right then.
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