Labour party's plan to nationalise mail, rail and energy firms

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Jeremy Corbyn will lay out plans to take parts of Britain’s energy industry back into public ownership alongside the railways and the Royal Mail in a radical manifesto that promises an annual injection of £6bn for the NHS and £1.6bn for social care.

A draft version of the document, drawn up by the leadership team and seen by the Guardian, pledges the phased abolition of tuition fees, a dramatic boost in finance for childcare, a review of sweeping cuts to universal credit and a promise to scrap the bedroom tax.

Party sources said Corbyn wants to promise a “transformational programme” with a package covering the NHS, education, housing and jobs as well as industrial intervention and sweeping nationalisation. But critics said the policies represented a shift back to the 1970s with the Conservatives describing it as a “total shambles” and a plan to “unleash chaos on Britain”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/10/labour-party-manifesto-pledges-to-end-tuition-fees-and-nationalise-railways

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I don't see any sign that disaffected UK voters are looking for this kind of strategy.

[geek tragedy]

1. how's he proposing to pay for all of that? nt

[Ken Burch]

3. By reversing the cuts in the corporate tax rate

That's pretty much what every Western country has to do now.

The 1% have to start paying their fair share again.

[Ken Burch]

2. There's nothing short of that that would even be worth doing.

At a bare minimum, a Labour government needs to take at least some parts of the economy into social ownership of some sort, end the privatization of the NHS, get private and restore some of the cuts to benefits(while absolutely committing to no more cuts at all).

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. "Poll shows people LOVE Labour's manifesto policies"

Renationalising the railways is backed by 52% of voters, with 22% opposed and 26% don’t know, while nationalising the energy market is supported by 49% with 24% against and 28% don’t know.

And renationalising the Royal Mail which is backed by 50% of voters, with 25% opposed and 25% don’t know.

Labour’s most popular policies include banning zero hours contracts with 71% in favour and just 16% against.
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There is also widespread support for increasing income tax on those earning more than £80,000 a year.

This is backed by 65% of voters, with just 24% opposed.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/poll-shows-people-love-labours-10404216

and that applied 2 years ago as well: https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/08/06/support-radical-left-and-right/



What we have is a similar situation to the USA: the Labour party policies are the more popular, but there are people saying "we want 'strong' leadership, so we'll pick the Tories" (mumbling "because they'll teach those damn Europeans a lesson, and stop foreigners coming here&quot .