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MK Shrimper · Mar 12, 2013

Yorkshire Blue said:
Mismanagement in rail industries equals people dead.

Mismanagement in financial industries equals people hard up.

Neither a good situation, but I know what one I find worse.

You tar all bankers with the same brush. Should all involved in the rail industry be tarred with the same brush as well?

Thing is the culture of bankers - and those who work at the top end, not Mrs Smith who works behind the counter in the local Lloyds - is greed, profit at any cost. The bailing out of so many financial industries, the LIBOR scandal, the mis-selling of PPI, Nick Leeson and the others who frittered away billions, the loss of that financial institution (the name of which escapes me). It's endemic Yorkie, and the "people being hard up" line is rather trite when people have lost EVERYTHING due to the reckless, gambling casino nature of these people - with other people's money. Who's to say that this hasn't pushed people into the ultimate solution of dangling from a rope in their garage?

I have no idea why Potters Bar happened - maintenance workers pushed so hard by a privatised railway to do the minimum for maximum profit for shareholders? Or just one lazy git not bothering to tighten a few screws properly. I've been on the front line when Railtrack was about and I've seen what an absolute shambles it was when the maintenance companies and that who should be overseeing them were at "war" and hid as much from each other as possible.

Tangled up in Blue · Mar 12, 2013

MK Shrimper said:
. Who's to say that this hasn't pushed people into the ultimate solution of dangling from a rope in their garage?

This has definitely happened in Spain with quite a few well publicised cases of people commiting suicide, after they'd defaulted on their mortgage payments and just before their flats were due to be repossessed by the banks.