Well There's Your Problem | Episode 166: The Privatization of British Rail

folks what if we introduced competition to a natural monopoly? that's a good idea right?

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[will_from_pa]

An American swimmer asks a Scottish swimmer: Hey, what’s your favorite stroke?

The Scot replies: The one that took out Thatcher

[Mth]

F for Gareth and his relationship with Network Rail

[RobinShiSummers]

Gareth ain't a guest anymore, he's family ❤

[BiggestCorvid]

I have survived Milton's wrath and found some timestamps in the rubble:

03:08 - The GD News
11:45 - The GD News II
23:00 - The GD News III
32:50 - Main Story
02:31:18 - Safety Third
02:40:33 -Plugs/Commercials

[bobsmith]

Length: check
Trains: check
Gareth: check

you just know this one's gonna be a banger

[TheRealE.B.]

As Gareth's political execution shows, the key to success in corporate engineering is to be a feckless Yes Man.
Schedule and budget are easy for suits to understand, but technical competency can only be perceived by those who have technical competency. Thus, corporations reward and promote the engineers who get stuff done quickly and cheaply without rocking the boat. That is to say, badly.
This also usually means that they'll be promoted to a different position before the consequences of their incompetence come home to roost. A bad engineer who's aggressive about career advancement and changes jobs every 2 years can cripple dozens of projects over their career before they finally end up in upper management and become the person whose job it is to reward less senior bad engineers.

[LotharTheFellhanded]

The only justice is if Hendy is sacked, and Gareth is made a lord and head of British Rails.

[miradrgn]

it's hard to even imagine what kind of a soulless ghoul somebody would have to be to fire the living beacon of joy and enthusiasm that is gareth dennis. let alone due to petty embarrassment over obvious facts

[mthiffau]

Upon hearing the new symbol is called "symbol 2", my brain immediately went to Song 2 by Blur.
CHOO CHOO!
We sold off all our trains
CHOO CHOO!
Because our leaders have no brains

[will_from_pa]

Idk what protections there are in the UK, but I hope Gareth sues them for wrongful termination and takes them for as much as he can. Genuinely disgusting that an expert voiced his opinion and some inbred count got him fired for it

[KerbalRocketry]

[slide of some really old permanent way] "Roz foolishly let me drive a little on this one" *punching the air* FUCK YES HISTORY OF RAILWAY TIME

[GarethDennisTV]

let's GO **two tone horn sounds**

[Alfa-deer]

As a communist minded English railway employee this episode is everything I needed after a rough day

[lazyidiotofthemonth]

The majority of Peter Hendy's wikipedia article involving Network Rail is his unjustified firing of some dude named Gareth.

[Dovoline]

Me entering the news segment: "Why do they have the date disclaimer for the subway thing?"

Me about 4 minutes later: "...Oh."

[rainbowkrampus]

"Transrail"
Don't threaten me with a good time.

[joshuasutherland]

They have been cooking, simmering, pit-roasting even. Us hogs are salivating.

[thetrainhopper]

The other horrifying thing about the Pager Attack is that all of this went through civilian channels. Meaning this could have exploded in an airport, postal processing centers or ON AN AIRLINER! If this operation had a little fuck up. So not only is it terrifying because of what they did, but if this goes wrong, an airliner full of random people could fall out of the sky. Or a bunch of postal employees could get blown up.

[evefletch]

Justin please put “ft gareth Dennis” in the title of the video so we know to click it faster thank you

[ajjaran]

I'm always excited when Gareth is on because it increases the odds of my hometown and its railway being mentioned by 1000%! I genuinely get so excited every time you guys being up the Rainhill trails or the Manchester - Liverpool railway!