Public transport

Living in Manchester and having family in Ireland, flying is out of the question for obvious reasons, but trains on SailRail is a nightmare - the U.K. train network, in comparison to Irish trains, is a total disgrace with the constant rail strikes and frankly, following the disaster of HS2, an external body such as from the CCP, Japan or Taiwan, needs to come in and take complete and direct control of it with no interference being permitted (laws would need to be passed in Parliament to facilitate this), all of the existing rail bodies would have to be abolished and rail strikes simply not allowed, nor would rail trade unions, who have been holding the U.K. railways back for decades - this way, fares would come down, standards of service would improve, rail projects would be completed for half the costs and in half the time with far fewer objections being permitted in law - it would also put an end to the constant shelving of high speed rail tunnels under the Irish Sea between Holyhead and Dublin (as well as the others in Scotland and in South Wales to Co Wexford) - as it stands, getting a train from Manchester Piccadilly (platform 14) via Chester, Crewe or Lladnuo to Holyhead is a nightmare with no direct trains, not even from Manchester Victoria, not even first class or private compartments - ferry companies have a part to play in this too as there is very few passenger only ferries operating from Liverpool old port (not Birkenhead - even though they have cruise ships coming in all the time) to Dublin and no water taxis operating from Salford Quays to Liverpool - then at Dublin, ships can’t go all the way along the River Liffey as far as Capel St Bridge despite having cruise ships in the expanded port and no LUAS trams into the city 

Living in Manchester and having family in Ireland, flying is out of the question for obvious reasons, but trains on SailRail is a nightmare - the U.K. train network, in comparison to Irish trains, is a total disgrace with the constant rail strikes and frankly, following the disaster of HS2, an external body such as from the CCP, Japan or Taiwan, needs to come in and take complete and direct control of it with no interference being permitted (laws would need to be passed in Parliament to facilitate this), all of the existing rail bodies would have to be abolished and rail strikes simply not allowed, nor would rail trade unions, who have been holding the U.K. railways back for decades - this way, fares would come down, standards of service would improve, rail projects would be completed for half the costs and in half the time with far fewer objections being permitted in law - it would also put an end to the constant shelving of high speed rail tunnels under the Irish Sea between Holyhead and Dublin (as well as the others in Scotland and in South Wales to Co Wexford) - as it stands, getting a train from Manchester Piccadilly (platform 14) via Chester, Crewe or Lladnuo to Holyhead is a nightmare with no direct trains, not even from Manchester Victoria, not even first class or private compartments - ferry companies have a part to play in this too as there is very few passenger only ferries operating from Liverpool old port (not Birkenhead - even though they have cruise ships coming in all the time) to Dublin and no water taxis operating from Salford Quays to Liverpool - then at Dublin, ships can’t go all the way along the River Liffey as far as Capel St Bridge despite having cruise ships in the expanded port and no LUAS trams into the city 

Same is true in the South. Unions held the Government to ransom. They're now trying to do the same, here, in Northern Ireland.