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Bill: National Railway Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Socialist Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 3444
Description[?]:
| Dranland needs a publicly owned, publicly accountable railway system run in the interests of commuters rather than private shareholders and corporate executives. Diego Barreto MP (Leader of the DSP) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: Private companies operate TOCs throughout the country.
Current: Private companies operate regional TOC's. The national service is provided by a publicly owned, national TOC.
Proposed: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:37:35, February 19, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, the DSP will never recognize the matter of fact that it is private interest and desire for profit that drives innovation. Man is a self-interested individual rather than a merely altruistic creature, but the free market and its mechanism allow us to co-ordinate peoples' actions to the benefit of all. Government, in contrast, is always coercion and, in this case, oppression. Luciano Eustáquio MP Member for Ulbrach GNP Parliamentary Leader |
| Date | 01:32:15, February 19, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, perhaps the Honourable Member will explain to the Dranish people why providing them with a cheap and efficient publicly-run railyway system is "coercion" and "oppression" whilst handing their railway network over to over-charging, badly-run private monopolies owned by shareholders is "innovation" and "co-ordinat[ing] peoples' actions to the benefit of all"? Diego Barreto MP (Leader of the DSP) |
| Date | 01:36:50, February 19, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, nothing easier than that. With private companies competing for customers, people have freedom of choice, while with a government monopoly they are forced to prop up services that they might not be content with at all for the lack of alternatives. Furthermore, they will be forced to satisfy the never-ending demands for higher wages and all kinds of privileges from the all-controlling union fat cats that the left-wing lobby will try to install in all key positions in government companies. Luciano Eustáquio MP Member for Ulbrach GNP Parliamentary Leader |
| Date | 01:42:12, February 19, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, has the Honourable Member considered that Dranland's railway companies are what economics textbooks sometimes call "natural monopolies"? In other words, if I want to travel somewhere by train, I do not have much choice over which train and railway line I use - I have to use whatever is available. This, Madam Speaker, is why our railway system should not be entrusted to private companies. They will inevitably become monopolies and they will inevitably give the commuter a bad deal. Diego Barreto MP (Leader of the DSP) |
| Date | 01:48:33, February 19, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, I do not read the left-wing textbooks written by unionized, thus biased teachers, and hence I reject the idea of "natural monopolies", which occur very seldomly in a truly free market. Even if they were to emerge, I'd still trust a private TOC more than one run by the government lackeys and union bosses. Luciano Eustáquio MP Member for Ulbrach GNP Parliamentary Leader |
| Date | 02:01:14, February 19, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, does the Honourable Member imagine that competing railway lines are laid out side-by-side next to each other, with trains speeding up and down them, competing for passengers all days? Has he considered that catching a train is not quite like catching a taxi cab? Diego Barreto MP (Leader of the DSP) |
| Date | 06:28:58, February 19, 2013 CET | From | Radical Liberal Party of Dranland | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker We fully support this wonderful idea and Mr.Barreto explains why we support this act perfectly Georgia McCormick MP from Elbian Leader of Progressive Parliamentary |
| Date | 07:59:29, February 19, 2013 CET | From | Conservative National Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | OOC: If only this was RL and I could thrust the Japanese railways into the face of you socialists... |
| Date | 12:58:21, February 19, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | OOC: Tell me about the Japanese railways, then. |
| Date | 07:27:38, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Conservative National Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | OOC: Several decades ago, the Japanese rail system was falling apart. Now they've carved it up into private companies. The average delay is 0.3 seconds. |
| Date | 13:01:31, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | OOC: Maybe the UK should contract these companies to sort out our trains! |
| Date | 18:55:55, February 21, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the National Railway Act |
| Message | OOC: Yay! Little victories like this every now and then are good for DSP morale :) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 242 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 157 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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