BRS 2021: what would nationalisation look like?

"To me it appears that B.R.S. are attempting to persuade industrial concerns that because it may be easier to telephone one B.R.S. depot to place all their traffic, they should continue to do so. This would allow that depot to pick the best of the traffic for whatever vehicles they were allowed to retain and to sub-contract the balance.

Effectively this was exactly what the Government was offering the private sector - the opportunity to only select the good bits.