* Posts by pneal.uk

2 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jan 2010

Train rebrand costs us dear

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GNER?

National Express began but did not finish a complete rebrand of all of the old GNER stock, but they certainly focused on entirely destroying the old GNER brand, which found it's routes in the original rail companies that built the lines the east coast runs on (GNR & GER), and replacing it with their bland corporate National Express image.

As a monthly user of the North East Coast line for the last decade, the service distinctly degraded under National Express from the previous GNER service and has not subsequently improved under the new government owed line. I agree that it should be a condition to return the stock stripped of all branding.

It seems to me that too much of the focus of National Express was on it's image and branding or rather style over subtance. I hope that's not the same for the new company.

China swings at Clinton as Schmidt fudges exit plan

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Culurally Imperialist?

We should ignore the ramblings of the unelected dictatorship that is the Chinese government. The United States was at it's best when it's declaration of independence the founding fathers said:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."

Is China seriously suggesting that a series of colonies rebelling against an imperial power was its self culturally imperialist? Lets join with google and stop co-operating with such dicatorships, the cost will surely be dearer to them than to us.