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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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AlunD
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OH yes 
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PaulKey
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Did you also hear the report on Radio 4 this morning saying that all expenses incurred by the bidders would be refunded ? This adds up to an estimated £50 - £60 million that the taxpayer is going to have to foot.
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EddArmitage
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Well thank fudgecake for that!
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Amnesia10
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How many teachers will have to be sacked to save that sum .
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AlunD
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Given the level of pain the poor sods using the line for the next how ever many years would have had to put up with if First Group won it I'm sorry but having to make those savings is small fry. As an example ( and there are plenty of others ) FGW have priced first class seats so far out of range that in 2 full carriages there is an average or 5 people on the run I use. They are too thick to realise that a drop of say 30% on first class travel cost would hugely increase the take up and therefore the profit. 
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EddArmitage
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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I thought that having managed to escape First (Great Western) as my main train operator for the last 5 years I'd be forced to use whatever so-called service they offer on WCML for the foreseeable future. Bullet dodged, I think!
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Amnesia10
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They probably do not care, especially when MP's could get free first class travel so the tax payer pays. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Among other things, not accounting for passenger numbers correctly nor accounting for inflation in any of the calculations....
Give me strength, what other number wangs have they done?
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