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Originally Posted by Damien
You don't have to do the utilities as well. I am less fussed about them then the trains. It will take years but that's the least costly and disruptive way to do it and allows the government to ease into it rather than taking on the whole country in one go.
A subsequent government overturning would be a risk but if the public backs the nationalisation then it would be electoral punishing to go against it especially as it's in the process of happening. Popular measures do tend to persist.
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I know you don't have to do the utilities as well but that's what Corbyn has been talking about and McDonnell has been banging on about privatising water citing Paris as an example and then denying he'd ever done so. They're as cynical as they are clueless.
https://order-order.com/2017/11/22/d...nells-honesty/
If nationalisation were that popular amongst UK tax payers we wouldn't have got to this point because our governments would have had no reason to fear spending what was needed by raising taxes. The fact that elsewhere in the world people are willing to pay for these things out of the common pot doesn't mean that's the case here. Anyway, if they carry on making these claims sooner of later they're going to have to come clean about the costs and spending implications and we'll see what people vote for.