Join us this Friday for a public East Coast

Photo of East Coast train

15 October 2013

Are you one of the 23,000 people who's signed our petition to keep East Coast public?

This Friday 18 October, we're joining our friends at Action for Rail and Bring Back British Rail as well as Green and Labour MPs and MSPs to hand over the petition to Transport Minister Patrick McLoughlin.

If you're in London or Edinburgh, please join us this Friday 18 October to show how you feel about the line. You can sign up on facebook here.

London, Old Palace Yard, Westminster

9.30am – 10.30am

Photocall at 10am with Caroline Lucas MP (Green) and Lilian Greenwood MP (Labour) taking the We Own It petition to the Minister.

Edinburgh, Waverley Train Station

11.30am – 1pm

Leafletting and protest with Sheila Gilmore MP (Labour), Ian Murray MP (Labour), Mark Lazarowicz MP (Labour) and Sarah Boyack MSP (Labour).

If you can't be at either event, please make sure you've signed the petition and shared it with family and friends! And you can follow us on twitter on the day - look out for the hashtag #keepeastcoastpublic

Read more about the Keep East Coast Public campaign here.

Photo of East Coast train

Photo used under Creative Commons licensing, thanks to R~P~M.

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Comments

Hans Fried replied on Permalink

I think all the service industries should be owned by the government. For the people. We need to create a climate of opinion that this the morally right way to go. So that the interests and the priorities of the public and and their priorities not those of investors, If the government owned the service industries the wealth accruing from them be shared to make this a fairer society with a welfare state.

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