> **65% of Red Wall voters who voted Conservative in the 2019 election want energy in public ownership.** 63% of them want rail in public ownership. The figures are 66% for water, 61% for buses, 81% for the NHS and 63% for Royal Mail.
> Across political parties and excluding ‘don’t knows’ 3 out of 4 people want public ownership.
> . . . Here are three reasons why.
> 1) **Privatisation is hugely wasteful** and costs us more because we waste money on shareholder dividends, the higher cost of borrowing in the private sector and fragmentation . . .
2) **Privatisation damages the quality of services** because private companies have the wrong incentives. They need to make a profit . . .
3) **Privatisation makes no sense** because the whole point of it was to create a market with consumers who can choose, but most of our public services and utilities are natural monopolies.
1 in 5 want private healthcare
Wasn’t that what Corbyn wanted
The Tories have always been criminals who steal wealth from the nation by selling off public assets to their friends who then increase the prices to drain yet more money from us. Just look at other countries energy providers, transport services and logistics. There is no benefit to us to have these services owned by by this inner circle. The only ‘competition’ the Tories speak of is who can raise their prices the most and get away with it.
If water companies hadn’t been sold off we wouldn’t be hearing about them dumping sewage into rivers because they wouldn’t be catering to their shareholders for maximum profit/minimum investment.
If publicly owned energy companies made huge profits we wouldn’t have to worry about them giving out huge payouts to execs or shareholders, all of that money would go into investment to either improve service or improve other areas of the country. The same can be said about water, transport, Royal Mail and the NHS outsourcing.
If the Tories could privatise government they would.
Why are people who voted Tory being referred to as “Red Wall” voters? They’re not red wall voters. They’re the people responsible for the destruction of the red wall. It’s like referring to former vegetarians who’ve now decided to tuck into a nice, juicy Big Mac as “Vegetarian” voters.
And if you think privatisation of utility companies is a bad thing (spoiler alert: it is!) and you voted Tory, then you’re either ignorant or stupid. Possibly both.
Why the fuck should we listen to the fucking idiots who voted for the exact people who want to privatise fucking everything? Fuck the ‘red wall’ voters – they voted for the Tories.
So red wall voters are still a bunch of poor morons for voting tories or do we now give a shit about them because they agreed with us on a poll?
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Excerpts, by way of summary:
> **65% of Red Wall voters who voted Conservative in the 2019 election want energy in public ownership.** 63% of them want rail in public ownership. The figures are 66% for water, 61% for buses, 81% for the NHS and 63% for Royal Mail.
> Across political parties and excluding ‘don’t knows’ 3 out of 4 people want public ownership.
> . . . Here are three reasons why.
> 1) **Privatisation is hugely wasteful** and costs us more because we waste money on shareholder dividends, the higher cost of borrowing in the private sector and fragmentation . . .
2) **Privatisation damages the quality of services** because private companies have the wrong incentives. They need to make a profit . . .
3) **Privatisation makes no sense** because the whole point of it was to create a market with consumers who can choose, but most of our public services and utilities are natural monopolies.
1 in 5 want private healthcare
Wasn’t that what Corbyn wanted
The Tories have always been criminals who steal wealth from the nation by selling off public assets to their friends who then increase the prices to drain yet more money from us. Just look at other countries energy providers, transport services and logistics. There is no benefit to us to have these services owned by by this inner circle. The only ‘competition’ the Tories speak of is who can raise their prices the most and get away with it.
If water companies hadn’t been sold off we wouldn’t be hearing about them dumping sewage into rivers because they wouldn’t be catering to their shareholders for maximum profit/minimum investment.
If publicly owned energy companies made huge profits we wouldn’t have to worry about them giving out huge payouts to execs or shareholders, all of that money would go into investment to either improve service or improve other areas of the country. The same can be said about water, transport, Royal Mail and the NHS outsourcing.
If the Tories could privatise government they would.
Why are people who voted Tory being referred to as “Red Wall” voters? They’re not red wall voters. They’re the people responsible for the destruction of the red wall. It’s like referring to former vegetarians who’ve now decided to tuck into a nice, juicy Big Mac as “Vegetarian” voters.
And if you think privatisation of utility companies is a bad thing (spoiler alert: it is!) and you voted Tory, then you’re either ignorant or stupid. Possibly both.
Why the fuck should we listen to the fucking idiots who voted for the exact people who want to privatise fucking everything? Fuck the ‘red wall’ voters – they voted for the Tories.
So red wall voters are still a bunch of poor morons for voting tories or do we now give a shit about them because they agreed with us on a poll?