Reply to: Corbyn as PM?

[SueEllen]

Upside:

He'd renationalise the railways, which should never have been privatised, are more expensive and crap than they ever were under BR. Given that some franchises are owned by DB and SNCF the whole thing really is a farce.

Downside:

Everything else.

He would renationalise Water Companies as well so either bills would go down or they would waste more on infrastructure.

Though renationalising telecoms, gas and electricity would be a ******* disaster.

[woohoo]

Thank you, a very informative question and answer session, except you Scoots.

[jamesbrown]

Ah but we would all be equal.

Just some more equal than others.

[emoji849]

It's going to take a lot of effort to drag PC up to less equal.

[original PM]

Ah but we would all be equal.

Just some more equal than others.

[emoji849]

[PhiltheGreek]

Upside:
Someone new to take the piss out of before their weekly meeting with the Mrs.

Downside:
Probably wouldn't get chance as the palace guards would have shot the smelly tramp before he got inside.

[Yorkie62]

Upside:

He'd renationalise the railways, which should never have been privatised, are more expensive and crap than they ever were under BR. Given that some franchises are owned by DB and SNCF the whole thing really is a farce.

Downside:

Everything else.

This.

But I wouldn't stop with the railways. All national infrastructure should be under public ownership.

[NotAllThere]

Upside:

He'd renationalise the railways, which should never have been privatised, are more expensive and crap than they ever were under BR. Given that some franchises are owned by DB and SNCF the whole thing really is a farce.

Downside:

Everything else.

[Eirikur]

he would never get security clearance with his background in supporting terrorist organisations, communist regimes and jew hatery

[DoctorStrangelove]

It must be observed that the CEGB didn't have the fecking Chinese building nuclear power stations for them.

Considering the quality of the crap that comes out of China, I'm stocking up on iodine tablets and geiger counters.

[SimonMac]

Which begs the question, why should national security be sacrificed to pay for pensioners? National infrastructure should never have been privatised in the first place.

Because if it's that important it shouldn't be left to the government run, as they have proven time and time again they can't organise a piss up in a brewery!

[Platypus]

And anyone with a pension would be screwed as they rely on the dividends these companies pay out to live in the future, but then again do marxists every retire or are we just worked into the grave?

Marxists live off index-linked gold-plated government pensions!

[NigelJK]

National infrastructure should never have been put in the public sector in the first place.

Left to their own devices all of these services ran fine without a lazy public sector getting involved. I'm thinking of Trains especially, where NR wastes huge amounts, fails at every turn and the private companies get it in the neck. Northern rail is abysmal but mainly due the failings of NR.

[scooterscot]

To be fair, El Gordo fecked pensions good and proper already on behalf of Labour and this is what drove people to invest in property (BTLs) rather than save into a pension.

+1

And now peeps are cashing out of BTL's in their droves as yields are peaking. Especially as the bubble grows even larger thanks to QE. Defo time to cash out. Interest rates will soon rise and saver can leave their folding cash in the bank, but only after the recession.

[scooterscot]

And anyone with a pension would be screwed as they rely on the dividends these companies pay out to live in the future, but then again do marxists every retire or are we just worked into the grave?

Which begs the question, why should national security be sacrificed to pay for pensioners? National infrastructure should never have been privatised in the first place.

[Whorty]

And anyone with a pension would be screwed as they rely on the dividends these companies pay out to live in the future, but then again do marxists every retire or are we just worked into the grave?

To be fair, El Gordo fecked pensions good and proper already on behalf of Labour and this is what drove people to invest in property (BTLs) rather than save into a pension.