Southern Rail have been utterly useless for as long as anyone can remember.

And you know the deal..? The deal is that when these strikes take place, the passengers who don’t get on the trains are compensated by the taxpayer and the taxpayer is compensating and paying for the operating company.

The only people making money are the operating company and they’re saying ‘we don’t care if there are passengers on board, it’s cheaper, we make more money’. That’s a deal that this government struck.