Nationalisation..

You know Trabant is German for ‘strap-on dildo’?

Apologies for my brexit uniform but i didn't have time to change ;-)

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Let’s put ideology aside and imagine you’re in government with a tight budget under hundreds of competing pressures. Not an unheard of situation.

Now, rank these in priority order, bearing in mind you hope to be re-elected:

- NHS expenditure
- Social care
- Nurses’ salaries
- Preserving the value of benefits
- Uprating personal allowances and pensions in line with inflation, and
- Investing in new sewer pipes or railway signals.

Which becomes bottom of the priority list?

Repeat 10 years running.

Result: nationalised industry infrastructure is bolloxed.

That’s exactly what happened previously.


Look again .... if the right levels of corporation tax were collected together with the income derived from these privatised companies it should be achievable to run these renationalised companies on a not for profit basis ... with a focus on service / value for money and customer care.

Don't forget .... if the companies don't make a profit the greedy bastards just hand them back ...
 
Could be a good thing but you would have to chain the unions down. Them fuckers would be walking out over tea breaks again. Some on here will remember the good old days of power cuts, 3 day weeks, strikes, no refuse collection etc etc. Took a woman to sort it out.

This is one of the biggest untruths that have ever been spread about the UK.

Even at heights in the 1970s, this country lost fewer days to strikes per population than the ultra capitalist, anti union USA. And the 3 day week was under a Tory government. Heaths incomes policy also encouraged inflation due to wage growth and was a disaster, then you had the oil crisis when the OPEC countries raised the price.

That woman took over a growing economy and ruined manufacturing and we are now seeing why it was such a fucking idiotic idea to do that. You can blame that woman for putting us in such a weak position to negotiate on Brexit, as we have fuck all industry left....thanks to her and her idiotic handbag economics.

The Labour party made some mistakes too in the 70s, with its bailouts of Chrysler, especially as British Leyland was its competitor, that was stupidity and a mistake made by one of my hero's Mr Tony Benn, but it pisses me off that its always the workers who get the blame when really it was a failure of management and a failure of government.

I would nationalise all infrastructure, all utilities and even have a nationalised investment bank. If you doubt this just ask yourself one question and its this. Why were roads never privatised? If privatisation was that good and that necessary then roads surely would be better off in the private sector. But they are not because vast swathes of the nation need roads and own cars and its vote loser.
 
I have read Labour will nationalise but where is their implementation plan on how it will work or be funded?

A lot of saying but not much doing. It will all end in tears.
 
This is one of the biggest untruths that have ever been spread about the UK.

Even at heights in the 1970s, this country lost fewer days to strikes per population than the ultra capitalist, anti union USA. And the 3 day week was under a Tory government. Heaths incomes policy also encouraged inflation due to wage growth and was a disaster, then you had the oil crisis when the OPEC countries raised the price.

That woman took over a growing economy and ruined manufacturing and we are now seeing why it was such a fucking idiotic idea to do that. You can blame that woman for putting us in such a weak position to negotiate on Brexit, as we have fuck all industry left....thanks to her and her idiotic handbag economics.

The Labour party made some mistakes too in the 70s, with its bailouts of Chrysler, especially as British Leyland was its competitor, that was stupidity and a mistake made by one of my hero's Mr Tony Benn, but it pisses me off that its always the workers who get the blame when really it was a failure of management and a failure of government.

I would nationalise all infrastructure, all utilities and even have a nationalised investment bank. If you doubt this just ask yourself one question and its this. Why were roads never privatised? If privatisation was that good and that necessary then roads surely would be better off in the private sector. But they are not because vast swathes of the nation need roads and own cars and its vote loser.

A growing economy in the 70's......This country was on its knees....... I've only got your word for that as I've no actual figures but thanks to weak management and strong unions our car industry, manufactoring industry, motor bikes, heavy plant etc etc. The communist republic of Longbridge, BL, was a laughing stock, our ships were too expensive. Folks would turn up to work then down tools, usually on a monday. Industry was decimated long before that woman sorted it out. The damage was done way before she arrived.
 
This is one of the biggest untruths that have ever been spread about the UK.

Even at heights in the 1970s, this country lost fewer days to strikes per population than the ultra capitalist, anti union USA. And the 3 day week was under a Tory government. Heaths incomes policy also encouraged inflation due to wage growth and was a disaster, then you had the oil crisis when the OPEC countries raised the price.

That woman took over a growing economy and ruined manufacturing and we are now seeing why it was such a fucking idiotic idea to do that. You can blame that woman for putting us in such a weak position to negotiate on Brexit, as we have fuck all industry left....thanks to her and her idiotic handbag economics.

The Labour party made some mistakes too in the 70s, with its bailouts of Chrysler, especially as British Leyland was its competitor, that was stupidity and a mistake made by one of my hero's Mr Tony Benn, but it pisses me off that its always the workers who get the blame when really it was a failure of management and a failure of government.

I would nationalise all infrastructure, all utilities and even have a nationalised investment bank. If you doubt this just ask yourself one question and its this. Why were roads never privatised? If privatisation was that good and that necessary then roads surely would be better off in the private sector. But they are not because vast swathes of the nation need roads and own cars and its vote loser.

So you’d be confident with Bozza or Jezza ultimately making the commercial and investment decisions?
 
So you’d be confident with Bozza or Jezza ultimately making the commercial and investment decisions?


It is evident , when we took East coast rail back into public ownership in 2018 that the state could turn a profit at running a railway (we made £90 million) thing is tho.... Virgin and Stagecoach were supposed to pay £2 billion for that franchise and were let off by their mates in Government


Food banks anyone?


https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/4...+privatisation+lies+at+the+root+of+rail+chaos
 

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