To add insult to injury, Dr Caroline Lucas, Green MEP for Sussex, says the South-East should learn from European railways.
The EU is cutting back on its subsidies to traditional, comfortable, transcontinental train companies, owing to the cost of increasing EU bureaucracy and fraud.
To bridge the gap of losing transcontinental rail services, a new breed of inter-city trains is being introduced, similar to Euro trains, crawling into service in the South-East of England.
Because Euro trains use a continental electrical supply, the whole of southern England has to spend more than £1 billion upgrading its third rail electrical supply.
European rail passengers are also angry their new inter-city trains have no safe provision for luggage, shopping, prams, buggies or bicycles.
The crammed-in airline bucket seating is causing deep vein thrombosis on mainland journeys.
If southern England's coastal railway is shameful, why, Dr Lucas, have we had no EU subsidy?
-John Stanaway, Hove
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