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Avon DeRussate
Avon DeRussate • mastodon (AP)

"Labour promises rail nationalisation within five years of coming to power"

Not bad..but as this is "Labour" rather than Labour, I'd like some time alone with the small print if you don't mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/24/labour-promises-rail-nationalisation-within-five-years-of-coming-to-power


Labour promises rail nationalisation within five years of coming to power

Party pledges to bring all passenger rail – but not rolling stock – into public ownership as contracts with train operators expire
Jessica Elgot (The Guardian)
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Avon DeRussate
Avon DeRussate • mastodon (AP)
@Nuggette The devil will be in the detail. The establishment cannot afford for the public to see that punching parasites in the face can be beneficial to the public and country.
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K.T.
K.T. • mastodon (AP)
I mean I shouldn’t be surprised, they are just an established party, full of apparatchiks pipedlined from their politics degree to whichever party is acceptable to the rest of their wine club. But it REALY does feel like labour is well, just that. And fiddling the policy dial back and forth to try and find the setting that’ll suddenly make them popular.
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Avon DeRussate
Avon DeRussate • mastodon (AP)

@Kestenan To be popular, Keir will have to do things that make people's live actively less difficulty.

Hard to do when you have painted yourself into a corner fiscally.

Truth that Starmer's new "friends" won't let him acknowledge even if he wanted to is that even Tory voters now want the rich taxed. Hell some of the RICH want the rich taxed.

Starmer is fighting the last war. As both Labour AND "Labour" have a track record on doing.

@K.T.
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K.T.
K.T. • mastodon (AP)
yeah, and they'll win only because the people are fed up of the tories and they'll take all the wrong messages from it.
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Avon DeRussate
Avon DeRussate • mastodon (AP)

@Kestenan Yup. I suspect the Tories to be back in 5 years or 10 if Starmer's landslide is big enough.

We need to ensure they are one-nation Tories by the time that happens because if they are PopCon we're fucked.

@K.T.
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Avon DeRussate
Avon DeRussate • mastodon (AP)
@Nuggette That is part of my worry. The curse of low-expectations and desperation of the public to have a "win" will push down standards.
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Pippin
Pippin friendica
I think we're in "yes great, now do ${X}" territory.
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