https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/east-coast-chaos-privatisation-proxy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=east-coast-chaos-privatisation-proxy Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:04:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/east-coast-chaos-privatisation-proxy/#comment-1261 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=3119#comment-1261 Yes, indeed. It also makes clear the perfidy of the Labour Government of 1997 – 2010. While they might have made some redistributive moves (very swiftly reversed with nobs on by the Con/LibDem coalition) essentially they were continuing the privatising revolution, which the Callaghan Government opened in 1978 and was continued by the Governments of Mrs Thatcher, Mr Major, Mr Blair, Mr Brown, Mr Cameron and Mrs May.
Given the stresses within the present Labour Party, it is unlikely that the kind of policy that Mr McDonnell is proposing will be implemented. Brexit Britain, which Labour is facilitating, will be a pretty nasty place for any concept of ‘the common good’.

]]> https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/east-coast-chaos-privatisation-proxy/#comment-1259 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:12:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=3119#comment-1259 This should be more widely known, and one wonders why not. I try to keep reasonably well informed about transport matters, but I hadn’t realised that DOR had been flogged off.

]]> https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/east-coast-chaos-privatisation-proxy/#comment-1258 Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:10:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=3119#comment-1258 Well written!

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