EXPERIENCE in these columns shows that, when others can't answer what you actually said, they tend to put up a fictitious version of it and try their luck with that.
Sure enough, along comes Colin Jones (You Say, January 3) to join the motley crew.
My argument all along has been simply this. If a large organisation has to keep two sets of accounts instead of one, its bureaucracy will have to increase.
If it's a public organisation, that increased bureaucracy will have to be paid for by increased public subsidy.
Those are the unnecessary burdens that the EU has imposed on the railways in this country and Europe.
As a matter of fact, I do use the railways myself. I've used them in half the countries in Europe too, and I would join Mr Jones in welcoming higher subsidies if they meant better service.
What they've brought in Europe instead is more bureaucracy, in true Brussels style.
And that's according to people who actually live over there with whom I'm in touch.
Which do readers prefer - Mr Jones' wishful thinking or the real experiences of real Europeans?
JULIAN THAKE,
Worcester.
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