Was D-Reg pointless?

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Was D-Reg pointless?
The first few years were interesting with new routes/links but as the major groups have gained a stranglehold on the industry, we are now just down to the major corridors. I believe if some of these ideas had been given time to prove themselves, they could have been profitable and quite longstanding but given the nature of constant chopping and changing of timetable/routes, passengers were denied the confidence of whether a route was there from one day to the next. The whole thing I believe was pure right wing ideology which continued later into the Rail industry especially in the case of East Coast which has had 2 failed operators from the Private sector and was returning quite a healthy profit back to the Treasury but no it had to be re-privatised.