RMT slams sell off of C2C to Italian state rail operator

"This is yet another part of Britain's rail operations being sold off to a European state-owned outfit. This time it's Trenitalia, an Italian operator, that is being given an open door to plunder passengers and the public purse to subsidise rail services in their own country.

" The Government should be hanging their heads in shame and this latest scandal ramps up the case for public ownership of our rail network. "

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