A walking talking advert for the ills of neo-liberalism with added stereotypical nonsense to boot.
Phillip Hammond has never run a bank but he is chancellor.
Boris Johnson couldn't run a bath but he will be running a country
Margaret Thatcher was a second rate Chemist who ran the country.
Chris Grayling, well fuck me, he even gave contracts to a ferry company who didn't have any boats.
Loving your work though, it really is desperate stuff, almost comical.
Did I say the current lot are any better? I would take the whole thing away from politics completely if it was possible to do so.
You are expressing the typical response to everything I said which contains no answers, just a regurgitation of identity politics.
Yeah but ….Marxist etc etc etc.
If inbetween thinks private ownership is the best model, why don't we have any private armies? Why hasn't the Royal family been put out to tender? Why is my street not a toll road? Why have we not sold air to the private sector? Why not go the whole hog and sell off the Isle of Wight to a corporation who will run it better?
I never advocated for any particular model.
I prefer reality and the reality is Labour have yet to post a single document or credible plan as to how nationalisation will work or be funded.
I would fully support a funded and credible plan to implement all of these things but it doesn't exist and never will because like I said their plan is not a functioning rail service. Their plan is only an ideological soviet style implementation of state control and ownership of services.
Top 10 airlines of 2019
1.Qatar Airways - state owned
2.Singapore Airlines - state owned
3.ANA All Nippon Airways - private
4.Cathay Pacific - private
5.Emirates - state/emirati owned
6.EVA Air - private
7.Hainan Airlines - private
8.Qantas Airways - state owned
9.Lufthansa - state owned
10.Thai Airways - state owned
And when I say state owned I am including thise where the state has stakes in it.
I'm sorry but this is all wrong. The only wholly state owned airlines on there are the Middle Eastern airlines but try looking up their profit and loss accounts and have you ever priced up a flight with those airlines??
The UK does not have an endless oil supply in any event to back up its losses which is why for years prior to now City never made a profit but didn't go bust.
Either way the fact there is a mix just proves that there is absolutely zero correlation between a quality service and state or private ownership. For every private airline I can name a badly run state owned airline, lookup Air India or Aeroflot.
A good and a bad service is differentiated by how it is run, not who owns it.