One of the reasons we privatised the industries in the first place was because they became totally inefficient and dominated by the trade unionists who constantly used their power to push their political agenda, while starting strikes to hold the government to ransom. They were a constant...
I thought it was worth a thread on its own.
I was about to remove it from the other post, but left it as you had replied to it, and if it was no longer there, you’d reply would look odd.
However, with your kind permission, I will remove it.
I agree that you can never say never in politics, after all many have voted Tory for the first time in their lives this week.
And I can say that I may well vote labour in the future, (I have in the past)
But I just couldn’t vote labour under Corbyn.
I’m posting this as it gives a frank look at labour under Corbyn, from an insider.
I’m not saying the tories are perfect (far from it in-fact)
And I hope the thread doesn't disintegrate into a left vs right fight as so many others have.
That’s already begun, Tory loonies have already been shown the door, Kenneth clarke, Anna Soubry, Chaka Umunna, Luciano Berger, Oliver Letwin, Philip Hammond and David Gauke etc.
He might wish to scrap hs2, but unfortunately the contracts have already been signed, so it looks like we are saddled with another expensive white elephant like the millennium dome.
All the re nationalisation policies were complete looney left bollocks for a start.
How do you renationalise any business that is now owned in part or wholly by foreign investors/ share holders who don’t wish to sell? And where would the money come from to pay for such utter nonsense...
This result is the best thing that could happen to labour.
A chance to purge themselves of the loony left extremists and re brand as the real labour party.