Zack Polanski demands ‘nationalisation of all UK utilities’ to lower household bills
Zack Polanski demands ‘nationalisation of all UK utilities’ to lower household bills
by JayR_97
Zack Polanski demands ‘nationalisation of all UK utilities’ to lower household bills
Zack Polanski demands ‘nationalisation of all UK utilities’ to lower household bills
by JayR_97
45 comments
This guy keeps popping up in my feeds etc.. lately and I’m really digging it
I’m all for it as long as they also get rid of the marginal pricing system.
About 10% of a bill are green levies, so, a plan in place to reduce this in line with the % produced by green methods would be beneficial
Nationalise them now, increase Government debt and a tax hike.
4 years later, Farage and Reform, sell them off to lower tax and decrease debt.
One aspect about rail nationalisation not often discussed is the privatisation of the rolling stock companies, they are the one renting trains to train operators, which are partially nationalised. If we want a proper nationalised rail system, we need to make sure it’s thorough across the entire industry
Nationalise with what money? Poorly thought-through vibes-based bollocks
Keep speaking Zack, keep giving us some hope that isn’t xenophobic ethnonationalism. We need the alternative and old parties are clearly dead weight against a far right promising the earth.
Will increase prices either on bills or taxes. You’ll need to fund the nationalisation as you will pay, you’ll also take the debt they have. Plus, the capex required to do maintenance that is required.
Also, govt will use it as a jobs program and over hire.
Utilities don’t really make much profit on the grand scheme.
It’s just pie in the sky in the same way Reform are making populist promises that they can’t keep
I don’t know who you are Zack my friend, but yes please. That would be unreal.
He’s not wrong … then we could dump the profiteering, the rapacious shareholders and the wholesale ignoring of regulations, and just maybe get them to spend money on actual customer service and infrastructure.
Also if the utilities were nationalised then the regulators might actually do what they’re paid to do, instead of kow-towing to the companies they’re supposed to be keeping on the straight and narrow.
Surely this will lower household bills, but in 50 years time.
Surely that is just wishful thinking, would it not mean buying them all out at market value? We are struggling to plug a £20bn black hole so not sure where we ever find the money. If there is an actual nonfictional way to do this then i will happily get behind a party that pushes for such a thing.
Nationalisation should only happen when a particular business or sector is on it’s arse.
The moment to do it passed in 2021-22 during the last energy crisis.
To nationalise them now would be an incredibly expensive endeavour.
We keep getting told green energy will reduce our bills, yet every policy the Green Party come up with seems like it’ll result in bills increasing
Makes a lot of sense. Other nations do this and it works well for them.
Nationalist Reform would rather they were still owned by company controlled by other states like EDF (French state owned energy company). Nationalisation is more “patriotic” in this context.
We should never have sold off North Sea oil in The 80’s
Sounds good but the country is skint as fuck how are we meant to afford nationalisation?
Economic policy wise, this guy is hitting all the right notes. Shame about everything else.
Obviously. That’s what Labour was supposed to do but they betrayed us.
And exactly how do we afford this? Or are we just going to say we own the shares now?
I think every adult in the country should be given a free unicorn. I will vote for any party with this in their manifesto.
You watch, the moment he starts to gain any real traction he’ll get the Miliband treatment and have the full force of the media hit pieces coming at him every day. Except it’ll be the whole hypno-boobs thing that haunts him I guarantee or something else they dig up.
I would love that, but two things.
1. He cannot _”demand”_ anything, silly headline.
2. Is this an unfunded policy like Reform are known for? It’s so easy to be the opposition, you can just play the populism game.
If they look like credibly being able to deliver this come the next election, I might vote for them.
Definitely not voting for the other left wing party, whatever it ends up being called.
I would vote green im just afraid to split the vote
Also we are struggling to pay for nhs and utiltiies so i dunno how much nationalisation will cost but at least we take the profits haha
Unaffordable but why let reality get in the way, it doesn’t stop Reform making stupid claims.
Maybe this is the left wing populism he was talking about – simple solutions for complex problems.
Yes. Please.
I know this is only part of the solution, since parts of the infrastructure need investment and the pricing of energy needs to be investigated. But please.
Any ideas where exactly he’s going to find all that spare money?
Nationalisation won’t lower bills. Unless you expect tax payers to subsidize.
I would love to see the water companies re nationalised , i worked for Southern Water before and after they were sold off, when Scottish Power bought it out, it was just a huge asset strip, no money was being put back into the infrastructure, just making money to pay the shareholders.
everyone needs water, you have a captive audience, all the millions given to shareholders could have been used to build new reservoirs, update water mains, and sewerage lines, but nope, we are still relying on stuff built by the bloody Victorians, thank god they were good engineers.
How do you nationalise a utility without the unions then holding the population to ransom over it?
I’m voting green but we can only nationalise part of it though. The wholesale energy market is private. Would like to see the network charges reduced and the green levies put elsewhere.
It’s a shame the Green Party’s foreign policy is so laughably awful otherwise they might be more popular.
Would you trust a Reform government to run all UK utilities?
Because that’s what’s likely to happen after the next election if all UK utilities are nationalised.
I’d vote for greens almost immediately in a new GE, but the fact they actively opposed Nuclear Power is absolutely hilarious.
How can you call yourself ‘green’ whilst trying to phase out the greenest form of energy in the universe is beyond me, maybe they have a grand plan to develop a new type of renewable energy that is better than nuclear……
Think about this for a second, wouldn’t this be great? Privatisation has brought nothing but inflation and stagnation in innovation and service.
But oh wait Reform, Nige mate has this. He’ll sell more of the family silver for us, I know he’ll sort us out geeza /s
Except UK energy markets are priced in with wholesale gas right?
Hypnotits can promise the world – he knows he is never going to have to deliver it.
I’m old enough to remember the pre-Thatcher times when most things like utilities and trains were nationalised and there were affordable houses to rent from councils. Good times.
With labour and the Tories being shit, and reform is only an option for people with an iq lower than camel shit then Zack is probably getting my vote.
I’d be up for water being nationalised straight away. Gas & electricity, I’m not sure. Octopus have a lot of innovative tariffs and I think if the energy pricing system was fixed, I’d have no problem still having them as an energy supplier for example. Water and trains can absolutely be nationalised. Service can’t get much worse for either, so if the prices were to drop and the rivers not be pumped with shit, I’d be up for it
In either scenario the money does not simply disappear, they are paid in pounds and so our money supply increases, fuelling inflation
I demand the planting of a magic money tree to lower household bills. Get on it labour
What a terrific use of taxpayers money. Given how bad the fiscal situation is, is it a priority to spend tens of billions of pounds buying the companies out? Or would they just seize them from the current owners? I’d love to see their economic analysis of what the latter would do for investor confidence and the wider UK economy.
Octopus Energy alone is valued at £15bn: https://news.sky.com/story/octopus-energy-hires-goldman-to-sell-minority-stake-in-kraken-13433193
Spoiler: the energy price cap already caps the amount of profit a supplier can make from their household customers (2.4% – most don’t make even this). It’s not energy supplier profits which makes energy expensive.
There’s a reasonable argument on water, though the utilities framing is concerning
How unoriginal…It would cost billions without actually solving the problem of high utility bills. Populist nonsense
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