Corbyn to nationalise railways and energy companies
Jeremy Corbyn has declared his admiration for Karl Marx as he insisted he wants to be elected Labour leader and ultimately Prime Minister. Mr Corbyn said he wanted to nationalise the railways and the energy companies to give voters “a real alternative” to Conservative “austerity”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11763640/Jeremy-Corbyn-Britain-can-learn-from-Karl-Marx.html
So my question is - how much will it cost taxpayers to nationalise the railways and the energy companies? Does anyone know? This article says it may be against EU law and British Gas costing £30bn alone.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/should-the-big-six-be-nationalised-8981112.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11763640/Jeremy-Corbyn-Britain-can-learn-from-Karl-Marx.html
So my question is - how much will it cost taxpayers to nationalise the railways and the energy companies? Does anyone know? This article says it may be against EU law and British Gas costing £30bn alone.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/should-the-big-six-be-nationalised-8981112.html
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He may well decide to pay much less than market value, but that would impact on the savings of millions of shareholders and pensioners which would not go down well.
As opposed to flogging stuff off cheap to your mates who then quickly sell at closer to the real value?
But does Corbyn know what he is talking about? By how much will he have to increasing borrowing to nationalise the industries he wants to?
Your confused that's the Tories
Saying that he wanted to nationalise the railways - hence the past tense - doesn't mean he will privatise them if he became the leader. He also in that video didn't call himself a Marxist and said he didn't read as much as he might. An ardent Marxist would have devoured everything he could.
It is another sign of a newspaper site producing a click-bait article to try and get money from advertising with a "liberal" use of the truth.
BIB makes no sense and doesn't align to what I heard him say.
I can provide another source if that helps
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/26/jeremy-corbyn-andrew-marr-labour-leadership-win_n_7873368.html
Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn has said "we all owe something" to socialist revolutionary Karl Marx as it was claimed militant activists have infiltrated the contest to help the left-winger to win.
Mr Corbyn, who wants to end austerity and re-nationalise the railways and energy industries, told the BBC's Marr Show Marx's writing was "brilliant" and dodged the question when asked directly whether he was a Marxist himself.
According to Wiki, he also wants Britain to become a republic, and he wants to abolish the House of Lords.
"He was one of sixteen signatories to an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling for Labour to make a radical commitment to opposing further austerity, to take rail franchises back into public ownership, and to strengthen collective bargaining arrangements ahead of that year's general election, in which Labour was defeated."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn
Seems a decent set of policies. Don't forget not renewing Trident as well.
Where does he stand on restaurants that stick a crust on the top of stew and claim it's a pie?
Depends on whether or not it's halal?
He wouldn't know about that as he's a "strict vegetarian"
Why does he spank his brocilli ?
I would totally ban them from being called a pie unless it's a potato topping
This is badly written click-bait masquerading as journalism and both you and the Daily Telegraph should be above that.
Until nationalisation plans are firmly in the Labour manifesto than it is just speculation. There is also the fact that despite what he wants he has to convince his fellow members to accept it.
Clement Attlee, a so-called revered Labour prime minister, led the government that nationalised almost every essential service. At that time, those private services were generally being subsidised by the taxpayer. The post-war Labour government should have ploughed our resources, including Marshall Plan money, into resurrecting British Industry and infrastructure to give us a successful base which could then have provided for nationalisation. What they did resulted in disaster and I've no doubt they'll do it again.
Well that was a rather quick bit of backtracking from your earlier post. Seems that you now accept that your earlier interpretation of what he said was hogwash.
Of course we don't know what will be in the manifesto but if Corbyn has his way it will be the nationalisation I mentioned in the OP.
Now, how much would that cost the taxpayer?
See Smudges Dad I could vote for, but a veggie - nope sorry Jeremy
There is no backtracking. The Torygraph is deliberately misquoting to change his meaning and so are you. But at no point did he:
a) claim that he was a Marxist.
b) said nationalisation will become his official policy.
With regards to the other question the East Coast line was running at a profit under the public sector and rail franchises can be allowed to run out and be taken back into public ownership at no cost. We already subsidise Network Rail to the tune of billions a year.
We lose out on taxation of the foreign owned utility companies.
What is it about Corbyn that terrifies righties so much for this much straw-clutching. That leftish politics becomes popular again and the gravy train for the greedy is curtailed?
Is this fact or your own personal opinion. If it is indeed fact, please show the source.
He has no idea about pie, he's from the south.