>She said: “I’m not for nationalising something that is going to cost us a load of money that we haven’t got when we’ve got kids starving and in poverty.
>“Politics is about choices. With the rail companies, we have said that once their contracts are up we’d bring them back into public ownership and that’s a way of doing it.
>“It’s pragmatism, not ideology, it’s about asking: will it improve people’s lives?”.
She’s making a good point. I hope people understand instead of twisting this into a message that Labour are being the same as Tories or pro-austerity.
>With the rail companies, we have said that once their contracts are up we’d bring them back into public ownership
I’m not sure what the end dates are for all of those contracts, but for Thameslink and Southern I think it’s 2025? That’s good timing if so, and something to hold Labour to.
Watch this approach go straight out the window if someone asks Starmer whether this means we can finally drag our drugs policy out of the Dark Ages.
That makes sense. I would like to see all utilities nationalised, but the cost gets a little insane once you add in debt and announce it now. I would definitely see some dodgy stuff going on.
>I’m not for nationalising something that is going to cost us a load of money that we haven’t got when we’ve got kids starving and in poverty
Great, so we can expect the two-child limit to be scrapped then can we? or free school meals? or just about any damn thing to stop kids being hungry?
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>She said: “I’m not for nationalising something that is going to cost us a load of money that we haven’t got when we’ve got kids starving and in poverty.
>“Politics is about choices. With the rail companies, we have said that once their contracts are up we’d bring them back into public ownership and that’s a way of doing it.
>“It’s pragmatism, not ideology, it’s about asking: will it improve people’s lives?”.
She’s making a good point. I hope people understand instead of twisting this into a message that Labour are being the same as Tories or pro-austerity.
>With the rail companies, we have said that once their contracts are up we’d bring them back into public ownership
I’m not sure what the end dates are for all of those contracts, but for Thameslink and Southern I think it’s 2025? That’s good timing if so, and something to hold Labour to.
Watch this approach go straight out the window if someone asks Starmer whether this means we can finally drag our drugs policy out of the Dark Ages.
That makes sense. I would like to see all utilities nationalised, but the cost gets a little insane once you add in debt and announce it now. I would definitely see some dodgy stuff going on.
>I’m not for nationalising something that is going to cost us a load of money that we haven’t got when we’ve got kids starving and in poverty
Great, so we can expect the two-child limit to be scrapped then can we? or free school meals? or just about any damn thing to stop kids being hungry?