You have done excellent work in greater Manchester. If you go it is likely that reform will take your place and greater Manchester will be doomed. It seems that even if you do become PM you will not be able to put into practice all the socialist reforms that are vital, because Labour is too right wing. Please abandon your ambition and stay where you are able and appreciated to do the right things. Thank you.
As a lifelong supporter of Labour I have no problem adding my name to this submission. Although I was a young person at the time I do recall the heady days of the post war era
A united Labour Party with its large parliamentary majority could transform the UK as the post-war Attlee government; just needs someone with the vision to see this through.
I support the Green Party currently but would support Labour if you brought in a wealth tax as advocated by Gary Stevenson and took steps to rejoin the EU.
We - the ordinary British people,have been exploited across the board since the 1980s. I have voted for both Labour & the Green parties and am poorer now than ever. It is time for the asset stripping to cease - all utilities need to be publicly owned, as they once were; whilst all NHS deals with the US & private companies everywhere must cease. It feels like we're going backwards ...
public ownership, as oppossed to 'public control' is vital if the country is to be better served and not held to ransom tp pay revenues to shareholders.
Please please address the attacks on our NHS. The proliferation of cohorts who are not medically qualified to meet policies of Doctor substitution are a risk to patients & a deliberate move towards a 2 tier health system. The only groups to benefit from this are private health providers, certainly not us patients. It would also be prudent if the Health Secretary were forbidden to accept donations from private health care organisations as has been the situation re Wes Streetings tenure.
Im stuck in Northern Ireland Where we dont suffer just as much with privatisation YET. But I'd kove you to prove that public ownership is the answer. Maybe itll stop the Dinosaur Unionist Party here bringing more in
When you become prime minister I really hope that you remain true to these values and also consider / preferably remove support for the very damaging Zionist's regime in Israel which has been committing heinous crimes against humanity! Along with the control over our media and government! Wishing you the best!
Give up Andy you are just spoiling things as they appear to be improving. None of your ideas are different from those now being put into motion. You baled out last time so do the decent thing and stay out.
I thought the Labour party would be the opposite to the right wing decline, but under Keir starmer we have had a continuation of the same policies. I hope you can offer hope where it has been lost.
Since privatisation costs for using these sevices has sky rocketed and the sevices have not improved. The best railways are run by governments rather than private companies.
You know how divisive British politics have become. You know that the Labour Party was once able to blame the Conservatives for their class-based policies and to blame everyone else for splitting the Left vote. You know that UKIP and Leave and Reform have stolen Labour's clothes and effortlessly portray Labour as old-fashioned, mad-liberal, anti-white, pro-immigrant idiots blindly oblivious of their roots and their role in our current troubles. Do you think you can show voters that Labour can heal and build? Do you think you can persuade voters that you will be a hardworking constituency MP, whatever offices you might aspire to? Do you think you can escape the accusations of carpetbagging, entryism and parachute politics? I surely hope so. I don't believe that you can win on an aggressive negative anti-Reform platform. You know that you can
I support returning services to public ownership but it must be done to improve services. Northern Rail has already been in public hands for several years yet does not operate Sunday services between Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. There are replacement buses now but we want our rail service restored.
I have always supported Labour and was a member and elected women’’s officer for my CLP. However I left as I was not happy with various actions of the party since Starmer. I have met Andy a few times as a I was a keen NHS campaigner. I will support him if he protects our NHS from profiteering and invests in it fully . Please do not follow neoliberalism with its obscene greed whilst so many are suffering from neglect in a wealthy civilised country of which hard working people are the backbone. I worked hard all my life but now sadly a lone pensioner just managing a serious chronic illness. I am afraid of my future due to the rise of the far right and such hatred in society, plus the struggles so many of us already have. I don’t feel safe. Thank you… 🙏
It would be perfect to have many organisations back in public ownership, stopping the fat cats profiting, whilst for example our once pristine rivers & lakes were pristine and private ownership has turned many into open sewers, killing fish and river animals habitat andstopping families enjoying an idylic day out in nature.
Any organisation with share holders only look for profit, not employees rights and the general public means nothing to them.
Someone needs to make a stand & ihipe it is you, as so much could be done with our NHS if the money went to Consultants/Senuor Nurses, to run the hospitals, were money could be used were needed, not in high salarys of pen pushers.
Public services should remain in public hands and run for the benefit of the customers they serve and the staff who work for them. The profits from our blood, sweat and tears should not be given to a privileged wealthy few but 8nstead should be used to benefit the entire country. I work for Royal Mail and I have seen the damage that privatisation has done to the service we provide.
I voted Green at the recent local elections despite being a lifelong Labour supporter up until that point. But with you as Labour leader I would definitely consider coming back to Labour.
Since the Labour Party abandoned socialism I have been voting Green. Please give the country a real caring party back that puts the interests of the working class first.
We've heard from Labour candidates over many elections about their support for bringing sold off industry's into public ownership, but this either is never done, or carried out at a painfully slow pace. How committed will you be, if successful in your bid, to follow your words with actions, and bring these areas into the public sphere, so their profits can be put to the use of the people of Britain, rather than only it's business community? I feel that this would be a hugely popular position for Labour, perhaps winning it the support that it seems to have lost; Can you explain why such a policy is not fully acted on, and what/who is stopping it being implemented?
We need our services back in public ownership, because of the shocking state all private companies are in,they are only interested in two things profit and huge Bonuses
Lets have real public control and not the fake one the Labour government has tried to foist on us, we are not stupid out here, we know what they are doing.
I remember Thatcher's sell off of our country's national infrastructure. I believe it was a crime against the people. I really believe if you can push this through over the next few years we would all be better off, and not just financially but also emotionally, mentally and in physical health.
Hi Andy, I’m a socialist, I believe that basic human necessities like water and shelter shouldn’t be used as leverage to get cheap labour out of people. There should be a living wage and all companies trading in the uk should pay tax.
Please carry out the work promised by Labour in their manifesto.Provide a reasonable time line to bring bills to The House Of Commons to legislate and pass as law.
Why is it never mentioned in news reports and films regarding the Sewage Treatment bills ‘rip off’?
I think it is only fair that customers/public 'estimated' sewage treatment bills are re-calculated, taking into account that every time, 'past and present,' companies ‘deliberately’ ‘failed’ to treat raw sewage at a Sewage Treatment Works but 'deliberately' dumped it untreated via their CSO's(Combined Sewage Overflows) to where the company ‘deliberately’ incurred no treatment costs, but they have still 'compulsory' charged customers for the sewage treatment process that has not occurred, to profit company CEO's, Directors and Shareholders, when customers have not received the companies lawful statutory duty service. Customers should be refunded the 'fraudulent' charges made…for the past 35years!
It seems this is an ongoing ‘Joint Enterprise Fraud’. If they 'deliberately' fail to provide the service, due to their own interests to cut company costs to profiteer by avoiding sewage works maintenance and improvements to sewage treatment infrastructure (which customers have already continuously payed for for since privatisation in 1989, which is around £80+Billion) to which instead has been payed out to private shareholders, CEO's, Directors etc. of the companies, & which may also include Govt Regulators like the EA etc. ENVIRONMENT AGENCY PENSION FUND CRITICISED FOR OWNING STAKES IN UK WATER FIRMS.. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/10/environment-agency-pension-fund-criticised-for-owning-stakes-in-uk-water-firms?fbclid=IwY2xjawQLDTdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF2czNEeTFmUnozYTlzZWNPc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkLXikU71QFyxnJlUX4QtuLWRY_EHTeW8bk8mLFh9ZM0IQ-cRfYHliOVrF2t_aem_l7mxwcO-oWbFtkgVMVRfZA
I’m an ex-Labour Party voter and member (I vote Labour in local elections). I currently vote for the Green Party in general elections. The more that you stand up to the Bond Markets (who hate anything vaguely socialist), the greater the chance that I, and likely very many others, will return to the Labour Party fold?
I'm a Labour party member and would like to see all the above points made. I believe that you are a truly Labour person, not a so-called 'blue Labour' opportunist, so I've signed this letter in the hope that Labour returns to its traditional principles, which I believe you represent, Mr Burnham. Good luck in the by-election! Yours, Cathy Goodman.
Bringing public services back into public ownership is an excellent step towards improving the lives of the people of Britain. I used to support Labour but feel abandoned by their swing to the right and their support for dehumanising policies more fitting the Conservatives. I am now a member of the Green Party.
I am a former Labour Party member & one of the main reasons I left was Kier Starmer’s wholesale reneging on his pledges which he gave to get into power. Abandoning pledges to return key utilities into public ownership was a big part of this, & shows a lack of seriousness about tackling the cost of living crisis of which the exorbitant cost of private, gas, electric & water bills are a large contributory factor.
It is crucial for our National security that all vital services and infrastructures are publicly owned not for profit and with no private investment which prioritises profit above all else.
Mr Burnham you’ve not been a member of parliament, nor a regular a parliament! You reside in northern England with no interest in the south of Britain either ? With no interest or envolvement in the world politics! How will you cope with the strong world leaders with respect of representation of Britain? It’s tough on the world stage , and you seem naive and really backward on all. Plus you are really just a left wing cloth cap something??
Nationalising is one step forward. Democratising the services is another. The NHS has been nationalised from the start but is not democratic. What will you do to democratise services?
I sincerely hope that you win in Makerfield as the country need you to lead us out of the mess that Starmer is making. Hopefully if you do get there you make a better job of it than you did my request to you for transport improvements in September 2023.
Off with the lanyard. Renationalise all utilities and travel. Free school dinners. And Breakfast Club. For all children. And bus fares. Squeeze the rich to refresh the rest of us. Don’t just say it. Mean it. Use Gordon Brown. He’s the best of them Good luck You will need it.
Reduce pension age so normal day to day people can have a chance of enjoying retirement whilst still reasonably fit and healthy. Give us our pensions and train those on benefits who could work or out of work through no fault of their own into our jobs. This must surely be cheaper in the long term than paying out benefit money to thousands who could work given a chance and the cost of sickness for older people forced to work till they drop and the cost of their healthcare and sick pay.
Control is not enough. We need public ownership and this is possible without huge investment, as the water companies are insolvent if adequate fines are imposed.
Our public services belong to the people not to private enterprise for greed and profiteering. People can invest if they choose to make it mutual enterprise but not gross privatisation to reward big businesses. Or so called Charities relying on good will while CEO pocketing huge salaries/perks.
I hope, really hope, that you will sincerely carry out what you are promising, as your party got to power on promises that they had no intention of carrying through. From pensioners through to N H S to care for the elderly, we were consistently lied to, that’s why the results in the local elections were so damaging to Labour😡 So if this is more lies to get elected then it will be a tough uncomfortable journey.
I want to support a Labour government and public ownership of the essential services is the main reason I am disappointed with the Keir Starmer government. If Labour can’t get this sorted out in the way it should be then I will vote Green in the next election.
I actually live in Scotland so a lot of the “asks” don’t actually apply. However I do wish you all the best in this election , and hope that “the ordinary people “ will always be worked for in the UK.
We must do something in this country to make it clean and life worth living and not just existing .We also must invest in our infrastructure hospitals and wages .Please give people of this country Hope .
I am reading THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. About Neoliberalism. It makes very alarming reading. Recommended to you if you haven't read it already
Lib Dem voter for local reasons (South Devon), although voted Labour under Corbyn leadership. Aged 78, so seen a lot of governments and know what I like. There is NO chance of my voting Labour with another Blairite in charge. LDs not up to much nationally, and I tend to support Greens now.
I would like full public ownership of everything from fully renationalising the NHS to the steel industry, utilities, transport etc. I am a member of ' Your Party '.
I hope, if you become an MP, Andy, that you will play your part in restoring the Labour Party to being again what its Rule Book falsely claims it still is, i.e. a truly "democratic socialist" party, that collaborates with ordinary people in serving the common good. Most people want to feel treated as stake-holders in their country amd communities, not primarily as consumers.
I am reading THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. About Neoliberalism. It makes very alarming reading. Recommended to you if you haven't read it already
Get rid of private ownership. We are sick of subsidising Chinese, German, French children education. While we are all over charged here using our own utilities for a very bad service just look at out water companies if you need visuals
It is morally wrong that essential services(water, gas, electricity etc) are being supplied by private companies. Private companies exist only in order to generate profits for their shareholders. Essential utilities should be publically owned, with the objective not to make money, but to provide a service to the UK public, and they should be accountable to that public. Any surplus income should automatically be ploughed back into the organisation and invested for the public good. Thatcher basically stole publicly owned assets and gave them away, in order to secure votes. It is high time that those assets were restored to their rightful owners, the taxpayers who paid for them in the first place. Until we get some basic morality back into politics, people will continue to be disillusioned and will dis-engage from the whole process- a dangerous situation for democracy.
You are what the country needs. Some with drive and commitment and not necessarily supporting the things which will win a popularity contest. Sometimes the best decisions are the hard and unpopular ones
I have voted labour more often then any other party. I have voted green once and liberal twice as local labour politics annoyed me then. I fully support a return to public owned services away from private enterprise which is based on profit not service. I fully believe our nation has suffered from badly thought out privatisation. Labour in the past have been involved in this to a degree, PFI for example. But most of the blame lies with the conservatives. Public services are for people not profit! I fully support a leader who believes in this. Thanks 👍
I pretty much agree with all of this. Kier Starmer has made much progress but I think he lacks the necessary 'vision'. Please also consider proper taxation of property assets, increasing council tax bands for higher value properties AND a UK taxhaven holding surcharge. Best wishes
I am a retired NHS worker and have been deeply concerned over the years about the back-door privatisation of my beloved and valued NHS. I have always been a labour voter but have become somewhat disillusioned by the current government. I am keen to continue voting for labour as throughout my life their values have mostly aligned with my own.
private owners are stealing excess profit from what are essentially National Assets that the Nation should own to maintain it's coherence as a sustainable Nation, and impoverishing us and making us more dependent on the whims of others who have taken all our money!
No public service should ever be "for profit". Every penny that goes to shareholders is stolen from the service it's supposed to support. They should be accountable, but should be "not for profit"
I'm 73 and I've been a Labour Party member/voter and active trades unionist all my life. However, if the party can't commit, FINALLY, to the long overdue reversal of the economic crimes of Thatcher, then what is it FOR? I'm one of many pensioners currently looking at switching to the Greens.
Privatisation has clearly not worked in the majority of instances, leading to poorer services and profit for a few. Very undemocratic and not in the public interest.
I’m a lifelong labour supporter and member. I support your views and direction of travel. I support working for health, wealth, educational, nutritional and wider resources equality, and the country is too far behind now. I support you and your direction.
Do not act like Starmer and put forward progressive policies then not implement them if you gain power. Beware of the Mandelson/ McSweeney right wing !
I was a member of the Labour Party, and will be again when they □ prioritise lifting the poorest out of poverty NOW □ regulate employers: the Living Wage, good working conditions ETC.! □ partner with Trade Unions & charities
Hi. This country is crying out for a leadership which will at least start the process of rolling back the damage to our public services since 1979. It appears that, despite initial optimism, the Starmer administration will not take that route. I am a member of the Labour Party and have never voted another way; but my loyalty is being sorely tested. Should you become Prime Minister despite the many hurdles that involves, I would look to you to provide the direction and determination that the country desperately needs. Yours in solidarity, Michael
Andy, Please do the right thing and end this Privatisation nonsense once and for all British citizens are sick and tired of this Thatcherite failed nonsense.
I support the Green Party but would accept them standing aside if you commit to public ownership of essential services should you become Prime Minister. Public ownership not public control!
It is time to stop subsidising companies which cost this country money through welfare. Companies have to pay staff what they are entitled to not basic salaries that mean they qualify for universal credit, that is subsidising companies and we’ve done it for years. It has to stop.
I worked in the NHS for over 30 years, for the last 10 the service was taken over by Virgin, now hcrg. Staff morale plummeted, services disbanded and recruitment and retention were terrible. With no recognition of Unions, staff are afraid to speak out, they were told not to say anything negative about the service to CQC.
I would also ask you to pursue rejoining the European Union to roll back the disaster that Brexit has been. Cancel HS2 to save the projected future costs of £50 billion plus. And embrace degrowth rather than perpetually growing the economy (see Jason Hickel's "Less is More").
As a Labour voter for over 50 years, I feel it is vital that Labour return all the utilities to public ownership. They are providing a service - or should be - not profit making ventures. It is time for Labour to move away from neoliberalism and trickle down economics - they don’t work for ordinary people. If you want ordinary people to participate fully in the economy - isn’t that what real economic growth is about? - then we need our services back in our control.
Yes having worked in the NHS for 37 years I have watched how privatisation has decimated care. Care delivered at the bedside is no longer sustainable due to low wages. High costs and the private sector robbing the NHS for contracted out surgeries which were never done, but were charged astronomical amounts. All try be services should be reinstated to public ownership. Not filling the pockets of shareholders at the expense of the general public.
The current 'new' New Labour Party is a cesspit of self-serving, 'client' MPs prioritising the interests of billionaire tax-evades, corporate donors and a genocidal foreign state. If you expect our votes, YOU must have the courage and integrity to change that !!
I left the Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn was expelled. I had been a member since Ed Miliband was leader. The present Labour Party does not speak for me but I would love to feel that it represented my views again. That it had a leader who has firm principles that they stick to you and is a staunch ally of working people and their families, of the minorities who are so often blamed for society’s ills, for the poor and left behind. I want a leader that cares about the public services that we all rely on. Lastly I would like a leader that I could be proud of when they interact with other countries around the world, someone that is not corrupt and that stands up against oppression and blatant acts of wrongdoing.
The only hope for young people in this country is a more socialist government which promotes justice and equality- including supporting people being oppressed in other countries by sanctioning regimes executing genocide. Tax the billionaires, build council houses & give the voters a credible alternative to the dreaded Reform & Tories. We do not want Starmer’s dishonest & disastrous pretence of a Labour Party!
I think privatiazion attracted greed. Organisations which were previously government owned, just saw an opportunity to milk our economy. Starting with our water companies; they have CEO's who's only aim is to make as much profit as possible from the government but delivering poor service. E.g sewerage leaking and pollutinginto rivers, killing fresh water fish and affecting the lives of our people. One particular example the CEO of southern eater earned an eye watering sum of £1.4 million package in one year. My water bill doubled overnight last year.ive had to cut back on my essentials just to ensure that the CEO has plenty of money in his bank account.If I earned that amount, I would never have to work again. This is just the tip of the iceberg. All the other organisations such as British rail, Highways,Councils NHS and many more are only interested in making huge profits, but not delivering quality service. Highways as another example, cutting corners; using cheap materials to repair pot holes which cause thousands to motorists, in car repairs. But Councils won't pay drivers who've been Affected by damage to their vehicles. To summarize we need our government to claw back government ownership ASAP to stop privately owned companies milking our government and our economy.
Privatisation only works for shareholders, services did not improve. Public ownership will regulate the management of the utilities and be accountable. The scandal of Thames water would not happen under public ownership.
I am a former Thames Water and Thames Conservancy employee before TW was privatised. We cared about our river and took great pride in its management. I worked from a perfectly adequate owned and paid for newly built building in Reading which after privatisation was knocked down and sold off by the privatised Company for private profit and another built in its place and leased back to them.It breaks my heart to see what the Company has allowed to happen to the infrastructure and how the Environment Agency have been in cahoots in not oreventing the pollution of our waterways. My okd bosses at Thames Conservancy will be turning in their graves. Take back Thames Water now and pay them nothing.
I support Keir Starmer as Prime minister and wish Andywould stay in Manchester where he was doing an important job, it was tactical voting in Wakes a d Gorton to keep reform out.
People in this country are working hard , pay their taxes and are barely keeping their heads above water . Privatisation works only for the billionaires who take their money away from the UK, avoid paying as much tax as possible , even living abroad to avoid uk taxes . Our children are unable to find jobs paying decent wages , because companies only pay minimum wages and part time hours whilst they fly in their private helicopters from site to site . We need a strong government who puts British people first and makes Britain strong again .
As a Labour voter all my life, and currently a party member, I am so disappointed that this government with its large majority has not taken these actions, and looks like Tory-lite. I’m on the verge of going Green. If you are elected MP, I will vote for your leadership challenge if you promise to make the changes we need and voted for. It was possible after WW2, why not now?
As well as bringing public services like water, power and transport back under public ownership we urge you to prioritise not selling off our NHS. US tech companies with deeply nefarious intent are infiltrating crucial systems and accessing our data and Labour are giving them full access. This is frightening. The public are scared and feel powerless. We must have an option to opt out.
Also make nhs patient liaison services independent of nhs trusts so they are not beholden to the trusts but can request fairness and learning for all parties involved.
You are doing a great job Andy Burnham. Keep going.
I’m not currently a member of a political party, but vote tactically to ensure whoever is most likely to work in the interests of ordinary people. In my constituency last time that was the Green Party. I have voted Labour and Liberal Democrat in the past.
Time Britain stop this privatisation and the public take control Britain has nothing to sell or grow,all we do is borough and fellow other countries control and rules timefor the people to wake up for better system.
At this moment the country needs a leader, sadly sir Kier Starmer is a good manager but has no leadership skills. He must not do a ‘Joe Biden’ and cling on to the role of PM when he is unable to fulfil it.
The uk needs to protect its services, invest in them and reinvest profits made down the line. They are not cash cows for investors. Our environment and health suffers as a result of private interest.
Just a thought: Stricter enforcement of standards, eg each time a water company discharges untreated sewage Ofwat should impose a penalty in the form of shares in the company. It would’ve in public ownership in no time!
Please commit to public OWNERSHIP of water as a priority. This is not just greater control! The private system has utterly failed and water is an essential resource. I have moved to the Green Party because Labour have let this country down and we need bold changes.
I used to be a member of the Labour Party. I will only rejoin if clause 4/ a genuine commitment to public ownership of key industries and services is reinstated.
As a customer of Thames water, I am amongst many they are robbing blind. Prices rises to pay shareholders and not improve our water infrastructure is disgusting and down right criminal. They should lose their license and Thames water should be back in public ownership.
We are crying out for a government who puts the nations interests first and not profiteers. I joined the Green party because like many others believe in building a strong community based around human values and protecting the environment that we live in. We need a leader that we can trust and keep in office long enough to deliver!
I have been a Labour voter all my life, but recently voted Green because Labour has not kept it's manifesto promises. I am looking for a reason to return to Labour at the next election.
I support the green party because they are the only party to truly care about our environment, working people AND disabled people and because they support public ownership and a much needed wealth tax. Zac Polanski and the green party have principles and integrity and under his leadership has shown that they have what it takes to engage people in hope for a better future, not by scapegoating immigrants and people on benefits but by pointing to the root cause of the country’s problems - GREED.
Andy Burnham has an opportunity to build on his success with the Bee network and show people that public ownership can be affordable and profitable with those profits being used to improve services for the benefit of the many, not the few.
They must be held accountable. They are making this country a laughing stock. Also , I might like to add , the laying to rest of digital ID . And to boot out Palantir from all contracts in the UK . I wish Andy success .
Actually listen to what Fergal Sharkey says campaigning about water - if the water companies listed on their accounts, the compulsory improvements required to meet legislation, they would be trading insolvent, and we could IMMEDIATELY take back ownership at NO COST!
It’s high time that services are bought back into public ownership. The people of the UK have propped the private sector for too long. The money it’s cost and the service these privatised companies is at a mid-match. Please be the politician that can go down in history that finally done something BIg for the British people.
I am very glad to add my name to this letter. I am also adding my own request to these here, going beyond this list regarding the policy point of the economics of public ownership, to add more and be accurate about the costs of the private sector, not the state, owning essential services — because most people are now sicker and poorer, more lied to and cheated, with private provision. And national ownership of assets (eg water) and services (eg energy and medicine) is essential if people are to be taken care of and to be able to care for others. In the old saying, anything we need we can afford. There is no national debt after all, is there? I ask anyone this when discussing modern politics, and even the politically engaged say they don’t know. So I explain it to them, how the BoE began; I ask them about the £400bn that Johnson and Sunak added during Covid — what was it for (everyone furloughed, to buy food etc, to keep the money rolling around the system) who do we owe it to (no one)? And of course, they understand then. Any candidate, not only Andy Burnham, needs advisors who understand macro and microeconomics, who do not peddle neoliberal beliefs of the benefits of greed and rich people getting richer (it never trickles down), and who have a belief in public ownership, and not regulation and control — because we’ve stripped out accountability from our society. Impunity rules. Because those at the top get away with incompetence and corruption, accountability as a principle has been eroded from our lives at other levels.
I vote only for those political parties that are NOT neoliberal - in local elections that has usually been small or independent parties.In national elections I am now drifting towards the Greens.
Going by it's history I view neoliberalism to be a terrorist ideology - demonstrably true since it's inception - and inimical to human survival. It is certainly anti-commoner (see the loss of the commons since neoloberal business interests have focused on wealth extraction from every possible national resource at the expense of the local population).
Water, energy, steel production capability, letter and small package postal ability, health (including dental), defence, education (for ALL age groups), prisons, and other vital strategic industries should NEVER have been privatised and should now be brought back into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. They should NOT be in private control or used to extract wealth from the common man and woman. They are vital for the ongoing security and growth of our country.
Furthermore, monetarist economic policy has no business being used to run a national economy as it is demonstrably incompatible with how a national economy actually works: Keynes was right, Friedman was wrong!
I am a member of the Labour Party. It is now high time to get back to proper Labour policies that support people and not profit. Let’s see you get on with it and bring it all back into public control,
You are the Labour party’s best hope for a better future Andy.So many of us truly need your help as does the country. We have had too many leaders caught in the trap of self interest. Your leadership could be the thing that allows us to have control over our own destiny. I truly hope that you can push on and make it happen. The UK badly needs that to make us a proud nation again.
The infrastructure is not working, shareholders are only interested in profits. There is no care or accountability in doing the right thing or best thing for the majority, if there is less profit to be made and I am totally fed up with it!
Our water owned by profit making water companies and their abuse of it, has been a bad joke for too long. I am so surprised and hugely disappointed in the present Labour government not being more pro active in putting a stop to this. My local rivers are so dirty, there are no fish, several car tyres, bikes and plastic in there. Dogs and wildlife regularly become ill. Our guardians of it are failing .
Private funding has no place in the NHS, Palantir are bad news and we know private companies would love to get their hands on our NHS and are working behind the scenes to make sure the NHS fails do they can step in!
Dear Andy, Very happy to hear you are talking about reversing the privatisation put in place by the Thatcher government 40 years ago. It's madness and it must end. I'm looking forward to hearing more about moving back to public ownership in the coming weeks.
Time to get Gerry the milkman from 1989 water Adverts back in his milk float,and take people Back on a joyess trip around the waterworks to say they are now back where they belong with THE PUBLIC THE PEOPLE.
As you know, privatisation of public utilities has been catastrophic for the consumer, it's way beyond time to correct this. For the environment and for the consumer.
We need full public ownership of all of our utilities as soon as possible. Keep private companies out of our NHS it is a treasure to ordinary people. We do not want any American pharmaceuticals taking profits from our illness. Get rid of Palantir and any other company of this type. Full public ownership is the only way to stop corporate greed.
As member of the Labour Party I’m a passionate believer in keeping our services in the public sector,and would like to see more insourcing to the public sector.
As a baby boomer I fell sad that many of my generation were bribed into supporting the sell off of our country’s essential utility companies. It is some 35 or 40 years ago that commercials bombarded us with the message “Tell Sid…” it seemed a progressive idea to be part of the “Share ownership club” and make some easy cash! Then I recall as a new homeowner being given free shares in Water & Electric utilities, it all seemed to good to be true. Well now we understand that the people owning our utilities I simply using it as a way to siphon out cash with no interest in providing long term services that our safe & fit for purpose. Labour would get my vote if you committed to the action proposed in this letter. It’s time to take back public control of UK utilities.
I’m not affiliated to any political party as none have proved they are fully committed to the people. You are the nation’s hope for a fairer Britain and one that makes us proud to say ‘we’re British!’.
I am a Labour Party member who believes that public services should be owned by the public. I am particularly concerned about the PFI like public private partnerships in the NHS.
Vital services and utilities need taking out of the hands of private profit based ownership and returning to the people that use them using new models and new thinking to solve the problems that privatisation has caused.
Although in the last local elections I voted Green party, doesn't change the fact how I feel about disappointment and left down by politicians across the board! I'm an European citizen, who lives in England since 1986, this country has changed over the years; specially since Brexit, England, should never come out of the European Union,Also, public services, should not be privatise for profits of individuals? Instead, should go back to the general public ownership.
We need to regain control of all our public services that was given away by Tory governments. Foreign hedge funds should not reap the monetary rewards from what is essential to UK
It simply not right that private profit enables the very rich to get richer while the majority of the public are getting poorer due to high bills, longer waiting for services mainly the NHS and tax the millionaires and billionaires properly taxed the same way I'm taxed on every penny of my income.
I’m a life-long labour supporter and very disappointed with labour’s performance in government. Under Starmer some good progress has been made, but the party has failed to get the message across. The draining of labour support has been due to the fact that election promises have been broken. Why are our essential services used by private enterprise to generate profit for the few? Politics should be about policies, not personalities, but we need popular policies, like nationalisation. We elected labour to bring about change, to shift the balance in favour of working people. Public OWNERSHIP is a vital part of this process.
I am a member of the Labour Party. I believe that we the people need to feel that we have control of our public services so that we have pride in our country. This will increase social cohesion and perhaps even happiness, as well as personal and national security. Thank you for standing strong on these issues.
Public Services should belong to the people not foreign companies who are taking huge sums of money out of the UK. Any profits should go to the government
Fraternal greetings, Andy. As you rightly stated, we (GB)should not be tirannieke by big capital. If elected, I hope you will push for alternative economics to a system in decline and denial that cannot cater for the people's real needs and rebuild the country's social fabric and infrastructure eroded by half a century down the wrong road, as you also rightly state. We need a sovereign wealth fund for all our citizens not the filthy rich and PR to enable long term progressive strategies.
The road net work should also be in public ownership we did not have pot holes before Margaret Thatcher did away, with council depots which looked after our roads and did work before they got into a bad state.p
It really is about time that the British people owned their own country and services. Profit made from all our services should be ploughed back into those services not into the pockets of outrageously wealthy greedy people. Nor should these executives be paid for overseeing this blatant plundering! I do not have a political leaning, the best person should be in charge and the whole point of politics is to come to an agreement, surely. Good luck
Andy, please do right by the people & fight to put the money where it’s needed most to make services great again, save peoples lives, reinvest it rather than distribute to shareholders. It’s the only way things will improve. You can do this.
A Labour Government in power with a leadership determined to bring public services back into public ownership is the last chance the country has to turn things around and reduce poverty and deprivation. This could persuade the population to re-elect a Labour government.
It is long overdue that we as a nation took back our public services from the hands of those who in the USA are now called "The Epstein class". Their plan was always to enrich themselves at the cost of the rest of us, and this needs to stop with immediate effect.
I would love to see a Priminister bring back the Great in Great Britain. I have always supported Labour but have become extremely disillusioned of late . Let's have a government who cares about society . Yours sincerely Karen Evans.
I believe that the policies outlined in this letter will bring voters back to the Labour Party as well as being the best policies for future generations.
I am 66 and the devastation to this country has been throughout my adult life. Particularly started by Margaret Thatcher and continued by Tony Blaire and Osborne and Cameron with austerity causing such a fatal blow which has only been continued by this right wing Labour government . I voted Labour most of my life and I have moved to tactical voting . I am not happy voting Lib Dem after their atrocious pact with the Tories, but I have done this to keep out the Tories and Reform. At the moment it is the Greens who appeal to me. I don’t trust Labour anymore and their attacks on personal freedom to protest, the right to trial by jury is so shocking I do not have the words. Labour is paving the way for reform with its rhetoric and policies. You have lost the trust of so many. The banks have got rich after their collapse in 2008 brought about by their own greed. When will they pay and the people benefit ? The proof of the pudding is in the pudding. Oh yes and oust Palantir that should be at the top of your agenda. How far many have fallen into the quagmire of dirty politics.
AND please do replace current property taxes with LAND VALUE TAX to return land wealth to the public purse to maintain and improve all public services.
I remain (just) a Labour Party member but think you must gfo for ownership rather than control. I beleive it's a risk worth taking on the road to dealing with the scourge of inequality in the UK. Like Beveridge, please be a man with a clear plan
Normally a Conservative voter, I am more than disappointed with the behaviour of ALL politicians and parties. There appear to be few who put the public before their party and themselves. Honour has departed and money has taken over with the acceptance of gifts etc from dubious donors. I hope you will prove to be of a different ilk and a force for change.
Good luck in your by-election and leadership bid. I am a Labour supporter and have been disturbed by Keir Starmer's priorities- he is wasting money, energy and potentially lives by picking a fight with Vladimir Putin when he should be using our country's resources to benefit our people, and that includes nationalisation of amenities as mentioned in the letter. Please deliver for the British working class and help defeat Reform. Good luck!
Privatisation of services and utilities has been a disaster for public with money siphoned into dividends whilst infrastructure crumbled and the companies wracked up massive debt, then to be bailed out by the public purse.
We really hoped for you to win the leadership contest before. However, you appear to have done well in your Mayoral role in Manchester so we're rooting for you this time - hoping you can prioritize bringing the utilities back into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP, not just PUBLIC CONTROL. Good luck!!!
I don't recall any mention of dealing with the privatisation of state schools which, because of 'academies' have produced huge disparities of income and performance. This might be a long-term project, but it id, even so, urgent.
A total end to PFI or a savage change to the 'licence to print money' philosophy underlining it.
I used to be a Labour voter but at the last elections moved to the Greens because Labour seemed to have lost its values. Getting water returned to public ownership would be a great start in Labour regaining what people want from it.
We had hoped that you would win the leadership contest the last time. However, your tenure as Mayor of Manchester, has demonstrated that you could prove to be a formidable candidate for the Makerfield by-election. If you succeed please push for Public Ownership of National Utilities & not just Public Control. Good luck & thank you!
Privatisation has not worked, they don’t put the customer first just profits. I always used to vote Labour but recently voted Green Party as I was finding we are generally worse off under them.
Dear Andy. It is so great that you are standing in the bye-election. A ray of hope in these dark times. I wish you all the best, and so hope you will be returning to Parliament on June 15. All good wishes from a former Camden councillor, and fan of yours! Penelope Abraham.
I have written many times to my MPs regarding the unacceptable actions of the private water, energy and Royal Mail. It is impossible for companies to act in the public interest. The water companies in particular have acted like cowboy builders; getting paid for the job, not doing it, then saying "If you want it done you'll have to pay more". Pay and working conditions always get worse, and service to the paying customer comes a low third in priorities compared to bonuses and dividends.
As a Greater Manchester citizen, I am fully aware of, and grateful for, the BeeNetwork. As a Green voter who could easily switch back to voting Labour, I would be hugely pleased if the policy shifts referred to in this letter came to fruition. They are long overdue and would go a long way to undo the damage caused by Thatcher reforms.
I am 67 years old and I have always voted Labour. However, I despair at the current lack of vision by the Labour government. Nothing seems to be happening to narrow the gap between rich and poor. We need someone with vision to change society - not just a bit of tinkering at the edges. Breakfast clubs in schools and free bus travel for kids in August are just tinkering. No company should be making profits out of vulnerable children and adults. Public services must be returned to public ownership.
I support genuine public ownership in the hope of reducing the use of the abuses I see in politics and the ‘public’ sector. I am disgusted by, for example,the exploitation and theft of public money via the profiteering which is rife in politics. I see it everywhere, for example in the financial gain that is obviously made by pretty much all politicians. See the wealth of national and local politicians - eg Tony Blair, Marvin Rees and ALL the others - after their profitable spells in office. I think real, transparent public ownership would be a worthwhile goal and I’d vote for it though I don’t hold my breath.
I dont support any party anymore. None of them are to be trusted anymore.our political system needs a radical overhaul and the public needs someone they can trust to do whats best for this country & not themselves. I hope that you are that person.
We should not have to pay compensation to water companies if we nationalise. They have done a poor job and prioritised shareholders instead of the community. Any company doing such a bad job would be sacked without payment!
Andy Burnham, I have every faith in you to bring in real Labour values to the House of Commons.I was brought up in a Labour household. A stricken postwar government gave us the Health Service, and I think you're the person to bring back those objectives and values.
I am naturally a labour supporter but feel they no longer represent working people and issues relating to those who are living fairly miserable lives due to lack of opportunity in their areas.More inclined to vote Green over recent years.
Hi Andy, I am a labour party member, but I am feeling politically hopeless. Labour no longer feels like it prioritises people over profit, if it ever did. Commiting to reversing the destruction to our services by privatisation would go some way to restoring faith in British politics.
Hi Andy, I'm a Labour voters. I am a retired teacher and my first protest March was was when I attended City of Birmingham College of Education. It was against Maggie Thatcher the Milk Snatcher. When Labour won the last election I felt hopeful that our government would return to the traditional Labour policies of public ownership for theNHS,utilities, transport ,the enviroment and education. I have been so disappointe in Sir Keir Starmr's leadership and policies or lack thereof. A Tory agenda. I have seriously been thinking about voting for the Greens. Please be brave, return the ownership of our country to us the people and not big business and the wealthy who have no idea or interest in how the majority of us live. They just want more money and power. You have achieved so much in Manchester and shown that it can be done. Please do it for the whole country.
As a lifelong labour voter I have lived through the de-nationalisation of industry/services and witnessed with utter frustration the blatant profiteering of the private sector. My Thames Water bill has just gone up by £13 a month - if this was going to a utility run by the government for the good of the people and the environment it would feel like an investment in public infrastructure instead it feels like being mugged by capitalists!
We'd all breathe a lot easier if the public utilities were just that - publicly owned. As they used to be. I now support the Greens, but nationalisations from a party led by Andy B would go a long way in restoring my respect for the Labour Party. And just mayhbe, my votes!
Water is a precious resource that we are all custodians of. Such a precious resource should not be in the hands of the private sector who’s ultimate goal is profiteering to return money to their various stakeholders.
This is too important to dither over - save our waterways for all of nature to enjoy 🌍🌱🦦
Andy we need to do more to stop benefit fraud. To much is being claimed that it wrong. We have people that generally need it. Yes life can be hard but we need to go back to living on our means? Not inflating our income by taking people’s taxes. So people don’t work and don’t put into the system, but are quite happy to take free money. Hopefully we will have a government that will address this issue Regard’s Mrs Gayton
Bringing things like water supplies and treatment back into public ownership is essential. Things that are needed by everyone who lives in our country shouldn’t be used as ways of earning money for shareholders. It is immoral to do this est given that there often isn’t the option to ‘shop arond’ to enable consumers to get the best price for services.
Please don’t fail the country and its people like your predecessors. Make real change happen by uniting the people and stand against all injustices locally, nationally and internationally.
As a paid up member of the Green Party I voted tactically for Labour in the last election because I wanted to see real change, especially around water and other public utility ownership- please don’t disappoint me further but follow- up on your promise.
Water privatisation clearly hasn’t worked for us! Shareholders have siphoned off profits without investing in infrastructure. It needs to be taken back into public ownership and not for profit.
I truly believe that Andy Burnham as PM asap represents the only hope we have to stand against the rise of fascism. The similarities with Hitler's rise to power are frighteningly real. Stuart Pink
Having only just watched the play/docusoap ‘Dirty Business’ we need our water companies sorting out now and taking back into public ownership. Any one in doubt download SAS ( surfers against sewage) Ap and look at our water pollution. This should be a government priority.
I voted Labour at the last election but am massively disappointed at the lack of action re climate change and taking public ownership. We need a leader prepared to stand up for people and planet.
I was 100% against privatisation of public utilities during Thatcher's givernnent; one of the (many) reasons I didn't vote for her at the time. It was not beyond the wit of man to see how damaging this would be. No government since, including (sadly) the Labour Party has done anything to reverse this cynical action. Please do not lose your nerve Mr Burnham.
I’m LD but think Keir Starmer has tackled a difficult job very well. Whilst I think he is slow on some things, I like his considered approach & am annoyed at the challenge to hisleadership. Whilst I think you would be an asset as an MP, I hope it would be to work with Starmer to introduce the changes outlined in the letter.
It will be costly for the public purse and an uphill battle with powerful entrenched bodies, but it can't be any worse than the current situation.It might even better a lot better in the long run even with inevitable built in inefficiencies of public ownership.At least profit will be ploughed back in,rather than given to private pockets
Dear Andy Burnham I live in Bristol and am no longer a Labour member but I plan to come up to Makerfield to support you in your campaign. ( My son lives in Levenshulme so I will stay there.) Wishing you the very best of luck and hoping we can build a better future. Toni Glazzard
Water, Electricity, gas, the railways, the roads, the buses, the postal service and of course the National Health Service are just some of the services that need to be nationalised to help stop the wealth extraction by the City of London and other speculative investment operators. We are counting on you to give us back the stability we need to live health happy lives without fear of poverty, homelessness and disease. Don't let us down Andrew.
I am a lifelong Labour supporter Andy . Please become our voice for Public Ownership. Let’s reverse the horrors of the Thatcher years and take back our Utilities from Private Equity . They belong to us ! Best of luck in Makerfield ! My home town ……
If you want to revive your party's hopes of returning to being a genuine mass party of the working class, public ownership of vital services is essential.
I’ve always been a Labour supporter but voted Green for the first time because their manifesto seemed more anti-privatisation and pro public ownership. I think you have an opportunity to reshape the Labour Party in a socialist direction if you win, and to make he case for public ownership while campaigning. We know the resonance of the slogan “Take Back Control”. Let’s make that mean something positive! We can offer the UK public meaningful control of their lives through accountable public ownership of utilities and essential services.
The notion that costs of bringing the utilities into public ownership based on 'regulatory capital value' must be seriously challenged. At best compensation should be based on the initial investment but better none at all when based for harm they left: debt,lack of investment and pollution.
I'm currently a floating socialist voter after Labour's disgraceful plot against Jeremy Corbyn. I tend to vote Lib Dem these days. But I'm completely in favour of fully funded public services including health, dentistry, public transport, generous disability support and basic income. Also in favour of rebuilding Britain's relationship with the EU, which will need education and reining in of the dishonesty of the populist Press, until we can rejoin, retaking our proper place in the world.
All public services/utilities should be able to be paid via the Bills of Exchange Act 1882, where the signature is equal to cash; also known as Acceptance for Value. The people should not have to pay from their small private pensions or wages. Good Success to you!
I'm a former member of the Labour Party and now a member of the Green Party. It's nice to hear Andy Burnham talking about the failures of privatisation, but I need further convincing that he will actually stand for public ownership and actually differentiate himself from the current watered-down, compromised state of the Labour Party. Nothing is going to change without someone standing up to corporate greed and delivering radical action.
I hope that Andy becomes PM as I feel that the government is not seriously committed to protecting vital services from the profiteering private sector.
Remember that the state owns the Bank of England and so can in effect pay for anything with interest free loans which never actually need to be paid back! Don’t be a Thatcherite Neoliberal.
I voted Labour at the last election but am worried by having yet another Prime Minister too soon. My instinct is to support Kier Starmer. However I would like to know how you would deal with all these issues.
Privatisation has long ago proved to be a horrific failure endangering people's health and lives and endangering the planet, all for profit, profit and yet more profit. It has to stop NOW.
If they private companies came back in to public ownership the profits made would be able to pay for all works needed. They would also be able to set people working and bring down prices and tax bills. As they money left over for repairs etc could be brought into the treasury. To cut taxes on the working man and bring down the cost of living
Please Mr Burnham - DO this! The country needs proper change, not tinkering at the edges and keeping billionaires happy. And please commit to PR for the next General Election.
A Labour voter all my life, I gave up my Party membership after the arrests of the peaceful demonstrators against the genocide in Gaza.These people are not terrorists but caring human beings, and their treatment and the insane amount of police resources involved disgusted me. I was particularly horrified that this was happening under the watch of a former Human Rights Lawyer. We need to get back to Labour fundamental values.
Whilst I always vote labour I do not believe that to change leader mid term is a good idea and smacks of personal ambition over the best interests of governing.
Dear Andy, You are my last hope for having a government that does represent the interests of the British people. Otherwise I will just stop voting completely for the remainder of my life.
DearAndy, I am a former Labour councillor in Camden, and remain a solid Labour supporter, active in my local Hackney branch of Hoxton West. I have long admired you, and so glad that you are standing in Makerfield. I wish you the very best of luck in the coming tough three weeks. We need you as MP and then Leader.
I’m a Green Party member, signing because I’ve seen first‑hand how outsourcing and private profit harm essential services, especially in social care. This isn’t a party‑political issue — it’s about dignity, accountability and making sure public money serves the public. I’m glad to stand with others across parties on this.
This is a great opportunity for you to return the Labour Party to its original values and be bold. Please do not throw it away. I am a lifelong Labour supporter however have recently voted green as they are much stronger on public services
The troble is Andy I fear thet that you will do what Starmer did before coming to power. Promise so much then scrap it all when elected. You'll have to have a more detailed plan for me to trust you
Our sell off of public owned utilities should never have been sold off to just a few people with money and it’s always been that shareholders are put first and all shareholders should be made aware that they have to give up there shares and all utilities brought back into public ownership as it once was
Public services should remain forever in public hands and run for the benefit of the customers they serve and the staff who work for them. Any excess profits should be used for the benefit of the entire country.
I loved living & working in England, but since returning to Scotland 15 years ago I have seen how differently things are moving in Scotland. Our Government actively tries to help people and us committed to making people's lives better. I've just joined the SNP and am dedicating. I think that you genuinely want to take the Labour party away from it's current direction of travel. That would be great. If the politucal machine had not demonised Jeremy Corbyn I honestly think the UK would be a better, fairer, more socialit place and the peoples of the Celtic Nation States would not be so keen to break away. Please try and advocate for an EU-like group of UK Nation States, sharing common pan-UK institutions where practicably possible, NICE, DVLA, Passport Office, Patent Office, along with EU-like rights to travel, study and work within the new-independent union of UK states. Wuth a,single strike you de-fuse the ultra-riggt wing by giving them their ultimate dream - an independent England. I realky think you have earned the trust of Manchester. Start as you mean to go on. Don't blow it like Blair & his cronies ever after by doing dodgy deals, palling up to donors, accepting gifts - we the people have had enough.
I think the ownership of public services is the most important issue right now, as we need to take control of those services for the benefit of the general public. Since Brexit, the UK public has lost the right to determine what is important to them, and has largely had to accept whatever happens. One good example of this is Thames Water dumping sewage into the sea, polluting the waters where people swim and causing many people to become sick, some seriously so. The declining quality of drinking water is also weakening people’s immune systems and putting further pressure on the NHS.
We put you in power not the millionaires, the multimillionaire or the billionaires. Listen to the people not the stick markets not the bond markets the people WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH! Stop blaming immigration, stop blaming the wars that you support in arms deals, stop blaming the poor and take responsibility and accountability . What you are not changing you are choosing !
Please get the Markets out of these essential services wich in the hands of corporates have been sucked dry ,and in a terrible mess.It has also crucified customers finacialy and is bringing this Country.uk to its knees.
Dear Andy, I absolutely agree with your stance that Britain has been failed with the recent polital decision making. Labour had an opening at the last election to make a generational switch, but bad decision making, poor communications has left most people looking at Labour as continuing the status quo. If you were to push ahead with your vision and commitment to public ownership of essential services, that would tip the balance for me to switch from Greens back to Labour. I'm absolutely devastated that Reform now controls my local council (Sunderland), Labour needs to set out a vision and a plan to get there, otherwise populist parties will tear apart this country.
It’ll be a long haul to bring rivers back to life and make beaches safe for swimming and playing. But it must be done. Shareholders who have hugely profited from the present system could be taxed to help fund the work needed.
Dear Mr Burnham - You have a chance to do lasting good by renationalising industries and utilities that have been exploited by their private owners. Please go for it. If you do a Starmer, and promise - or seem to promise - public ownership and then drop that promise like a hot turd as soon as you get into power, the electorate will swiftly give you the punishment you deserve. Have a think. Regards, C Williams
I support the Green Party. I don't trust Labour under its current leadership; perhaps you could change that. The only thing on that list that I don't want to see entirely renationalised is the energy sector, because some of the smaller companies have USPs such as being entirely renewable, or providing social value to their local customers. There should definitely be a public retail option, though.
Dear Andy, You may be holding our future in your hands. It's a huge responsibility. Please explain to Makerfield constituents that joining the EU will give them a fairer, more hopeful and prosperous future. Tell them it was decades of bad British governments that put the South first. It wasn't the EU that left the North to rot. Tell them Reform will tie us to Trump, and sever us from Europe forever - and that will destroy our economy, our freedoms and rights, and our democratic way of life. Tell them, the only way to stop Trump controlling all of us, via his proxy crypto-millionaire Farage, is to join the EU. It's never been more necessary or more urgent.
The NHS was the best health service in the world before privatisation, and so was education. We need to get back to serving the people and not profiteering share holders.
The poison of neoliberalism & the tendency to other, then exploit/abuse that which is so othered, be it people, non-human life &/or environment, lies behind the global human induced polycrisis of climate change, biodiversity collapse & societal upheaval. Changing our collective heading in this respect is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.
We choose our actions, reality chooses the consequences. Reality does not pander to delusion or bend to propaganda. Delusion is anathema to life, of which we are but an interdependent part within a complex web of relationships.
The neoliberal dynamic is essentially unsustainable cannibalism; greed & short-sightedness, in conjunction with our proliferation & reach through tool usage (aka tech) has now taken us to the point where this is turning inwards & we are consuming ourselves in pursuit of the delusion that exponential growth at all costs is healthy, causing the entire system to break down as sickness & dysfunction spreads.
The incessant mantra to deregulate is a recipe for suicide. Dysregulated growth in the biological world has a name - we call it cancer. Spoiler alert: without intervention it doesn't end well for the host or indeed the cancer itself.
The status quo is not sustainable irrespective of how great a tantrum big money throws. The freedoms those entities seek (the ones not compatible with democracy) are the freedoms to abuse & destroy - the freedom to bring death to all they touch, including themselves. True freedom requires we put aside childish demands & recognise responsibility & freedom are inseparable twins. Only by accepting responsibility for the consequences of our actions - all of them, on all timescales, & however inconvenient - can we realise our collective potential & take humanity out of adolescence into adulthood.
To the extent there is truth in this narrative, I hope you can see that truth. And I hope you have the vision & courage to help the UK play its part in a healthy change of course. I wish you well. Blessed be.
I have always voted Labour but I have felt so disillusioned with the direction of the Labour Party and the infiltration from the Right. I would love to see the Rationalisation of all public services, however, this will cost an enormous amount of money. What can be done to prevent the services being sold off once again? My concern being, as what always happens, the private sector gains a fantastic new service at the cost to ordinary people. Can some kind of legal order be made that prevents ‘our’ services being sold off, if the Tories get back in? I wish you well in the by-election and I sincerely hope you will become leader of the party. Many thanks Rachael
I believe governments should not have the power to sell off infrastructure unless by referendum, what right I’d like to know does any government have to sell off taxpayer owned land or infrastructure, especially as our antiquated voting system does not give all voters a meaningful say.
I would have been more comfortable signing this if Andy had really acheived public ownership of Manchester buses. I believe the buses are still in private ownership even if they are under public control
I think anyone challenging for the Labour leadership is wrong, the msm have been out for Keir Starmer from day one of him being PM, Reform are treating the local elections like a general election and grandstanding about Mandelson, Keir should stay as PM, he is doing a good job but there is a smear campaign against him, as there will be no matter who is the Labour leader, its deflecting from Farage and his shenanigans, why isn’t he being investigated?
I live in Wales and have just voted Green as I wanted to support our candidate and it was a dead cert that Plaid Cymru would win and they did. But I have previously voted Labour and Lib Dem before they became a no go.
Dear Mr Burnham, Public ownership, not public control, is what the majority of people in the UK want - national assets should never be in private or foreign ownership, one of the basic laws of any responsible nation. The people of this country have come a long way last under this government and under the previous one - now is the time to do right.
You have made a great difference to the transport in Greater Manchester - the Bee Network is a great success. If you are elected as MP please continue to fight for public ownership of our services.
I’m hoping that you can make a change to the Labour Party, you have done so much good for Manchester I’m sure that you would be positive for Labour. I’ve voted Conservative and Labour in the past.
You have already made a positive contribution to improving transport in Greater Manchester - the Bee Network has been a great success. If you are elected as an MP please continue to fight for public ownership of our services
As I am in the autumn of my life, I don't want to die knowing that when the opportunity arose we didn't take the opportunity to take back our essential services into public ownership. If we do it will start to stop the super rich taking full charge of our lives and bleeding us dry.
Hi! I support you in your aim to be elected as an MP and ultimately to become PM. I feel that Keir Starmer no longer represents Labour voters - if he ever did! I'd urge you to develop your support for public control of national industries to you calling and working for public *ownership* of these industries. This is the best way to ensure public control and for the country to benefit from both the services and rewards of these national treasures. Many blessings Bridget Hall
I love your ideas about public ownership too many shareholders have benefitted from our assets and when you look at other countries you realise how far we have fallen behind which makes me ashamed. Please make a difference Andy
I have voted Labour for many years but cannot vote for my local MP should he stand again as he has not answered my concerns about Thames Water sufficiently robustly (or at all) for me to trust him. I vote Green in local elections. Current Labour government is a disappointment. Would never vote Tory or Reform
I am also interested in prescription pharmaceuticals and why NHS pharmacies cannot get some of them, e.g. Teva Bisoprolol, from wholesalers who actually have them in stock. Wholesalers charge far more than the Government allows NHS pharmacies to buy, e.g. Gov. reimbursement of a pack of 28 Bisoprolol 1.25mg tablets to pharmacies (according to AI) is £4.79; and 2.5 mg is £0.60. However, the wholesalers charge £9 (so I have been told by my pharmacist). There is great difficulty in getting these tablets even when they are fully in stock at the wholesalers. The system needs looking at. I have been told that pharmacies are going out of business due to it, and some pharmacies won't get the tablets in because of it, and doctors tell patients to search for a pharmacy, in a broad radius from home, that does have the tablets. Why are wholesalers allowed to charge so much when Government reimburses so little? The people who need the tablets are the ones suffering the most. Who is actually running this country - the Government or Big Business?
Want to see public services returned to public ownership. Doesn't make sense to let big business make enormous profits from services that are needed by everyone.I want to live in a fair and civilised society which cares for all its members. Our taxes should be progressive.ie. the wealthy pay more.
I watched the TV documentary "Dirty Business" and I've been listening to Radio 4's "Rinsed" about the water industry. The private water companies are akin to organised criminal enterprises, aided and abetted by the environment agency. How do they get away with it? I would be very happy to pay more for water and sewage treatment provided my money was going to clean up the sea and rivers and not enrich foreign shareholders. By the way, I'm a Liberal Democrat town councillor in Oxfordshire.
Please end private finance of our utilities and institutions and return to public ownership. We need a better service for the people, not the shareholders who have failed to invest into the upkeep of these companies.
I voted green in the last election but I would absolutely shift to labour given a reversal of the proscription of Palestine action, and a strong move towards public ownership
As a socialist, I have always thought that privatisation of National institutions was wrong and would welcome every attempt to bring water, steel and the railways back under government control. If we could get the Royal Mail back and make sure the NHS stays out of private hands, even better. Good luck with your campaign.
I am a Labour supporter but have been disappointed that it hasn't done more in the near two years since the election. We can’t expect miracles, but if you can become PM I believe we can move in the right direction. Be brave, Labour has a big majority and let's face it, the Tories have done extreme right wing things with much less. Make hay while we're in government!
We have every hope that you will enable us to rejoin the EU asap and wish that we had someone in Birmingham who would do for us what you have done for Manchester.
Renationalisation of water must be top priority and urgent. It should never have been privatised as it directly relates to public health as the old Sanitary Board s. knew in combatting cholera. All the other points are also essential and I would add a promise stop digital ID, facial recognition cameras everywhere and mandatory programmable Central Bank Digital Currency. At present I am not a member of any political party because I have lost all faith in them all.
Finally a representative for the working and middle-classes. It’s about time care homes, public transport, energy provision and the NHS were taken back into public ownership. The minority have had it too good for too long, at the expense of the majority.
I wish it wasn't necessary to be writing to you regarding your proposed replacement for Starmer; I think he is better than the somewhat vitriolic comments indicate & has done better than many seem to think. He just hasn't been what people expected. I hope the election in & for Makerfield will yield the result you want, along with many others. I am with the LibDems but am sending all my support to you in this fairly turbulent time & pray that you won't be overwhelmed by the big names of the current times
Public ownership of essential public services is vital to the well being of us all - instead of private companies asset stripping and paying out huge dividends seemingly without penalty.
I am also interested in prescription pharmaceuticals and why NHS pharmacies cannot get some of them, e.g. Teva Bisoprolol, from wholesalers who actually have them in stock. Wholesalers charge far more than the Government allows NHS pharmacies to buy, e.g. Gov. reimbursement of a pack of 28 Bisoprolol 1.25mg tablets to pharmacies (according to AI) is £4.79; and 2.5 mg is £0.60. However, the wholesalers charge £9 (so I have been told by my pharmacist). There is great difficulty in getting these tablets even when they are fully in stock at the wholesalers. The system needs looking at. I have been told that pharmacies are going out of business due to it, and some pharmacies won't get the tablets in because of it, and doctors tell patients to search for a pharmacy, in a broad radius from home, that does have the tablets. Why are wholesalers allowed to charge so much when Government reimburses so little? The people who need the tablets are the ones suffering the most. Who is actually running this country - the Government or Big Business?
I live in Selsey, Chichester. Our water company Southern Water has been consistently discharging sewage and has been regularly fined for breaching their responsibilities. They pay lip service to the bill payers. They build the fines into their charges to maintain their profits. Ofwat is not fit for purpose. Shameful!!
Please do not renege on getting as many of our public services back into public ownership. No public service should be privatised, especially when the taxpayer has been funding it for years and then it's sold cheap format cars to get fatter!
I so hope you win a seat in the by election and I wish you all the best. As a Labour party member I can't help feeling that Kier Starmer and some ministers seem unable to avoid repeatedly shooting themselves in both feet. I know this government inherited a sh*t-show, but serious mistakes have been made.
I feel politically homeless: I uaed to vote Labour but have been bitterly disappointed by their optics, their demonisation of legitimate concerns that people have about the swift changes in their localities and their contempt for ordinary working people by raising taxes in a cost of living crisis. Labour need to get a grip on the real priorities: energy, food and secure borders.
When billionaires from abroad own our industries they really don't care about about the service they give it's out of sight out of mind. As long as the money keeps rolling in they don't care.
The people of this country deserve decent public services. Acknowledge that privatisation hasn't worked and use the profits siphoned off to improve services. Be brave and don't let big business put pressure on you.
I used to be a Labour Party member but currently belong to the Green Party. I would like very much to see a future Labour government supporting public ownership of public services. The ideology of privatisation supports capitalist moneymakers, encourages lobbying by companies motivated purely by profit, and has wreaked havoc with our public services.
We have all seen what has happened to public companies run by private companies. It’s devastating on several counts 1) the public suffer the brunt 2) the shareholders come first 3) lack of accountability 4) no reinforcement of rules 5) lack of necessary safeguards and adherence to them 6) they don’t run smoothly 7) wasting of money
Every politician who has been elected as leader of a party has promised so much yet never delivers or does a complete U-turn. This country does not need another politician who serves foreign interests and/or corporate interests while increasing surveillance on us, stripping away our sovereignty privacy. Can you commit to finally being a leader who serves the people and their best interests and freedoms?
Rail ownership can also learn from the ScotGov recovery of ScotRail into public ownership.
More strategically, it's time for a Labour politician to renounce the Bain Principle, and build the case for UK by enthusiastically adopting many of the progressive policies of ScotGov.
We should NEVER allow essential services to be privatized where profits are ALWAYS put before the welfare of the service. Should there be any profits, these should be ploughed back into the Company to improve its services. The thought that an essential service can be foreign-owned or even hi-jacked by a British fraudster is alarming as their allegiances will probably NOT be to the British consumer but to their shareholders, personal profits and/or an enemy of our country and people. My politics is left-leaning/socialist and Green and extremely fearful of the far-Right that is currently a real threat to humanity and our world.
Having lived through the decades of catastrophic privatisation of our public services - water, energy, transport, the Royal Mail, care and, most shameful of all, the NHS, I have been heartened by statements you have made and actions you have taken. Please reflect on the policies advocated by We Own It and be bold.
Andy was a Blairite, backing the Iraq war and the starting gun for selling the NHS to American hedge funds. So unless he’s had a complete political realignment he will operate exactly the same as Starmer has, obeying the corrupt right wing of Labour.
It is my belief that British people learned very hard lessons after two dreadful and perhaps unnecessary World Wars. It seems some people and, who could blame them given their dreadfully sad losses demanded a better deal. Hence we got the welfare state a good thing, but maybe now overused and abused by many more people than is ever admitted, at least by the authority's. Anyway Mrs Thatcher appeared to realise that big business and big finance was being invested in overseas cheap labour and much industry was moving overseas leaving a situation whereby both husband and wife would both be expected to go out and do forty hours each and earn what would hitherto have equalled one weekly wage. Leaving children to be looked after by whoever as if it had little importance. On top of this steelworkers, miners etc would now become shelf stackers or waiters. Then to really insult the working class the Governments all carried on bringing in cheap labour whilst the media is saying British people won't do these jobs. Maybe they would have if they were valued enough to be paid a proper wage. Then the very rich and powerful began to push the idea that the working people are all far right, racists, bigots, natzis or whatever could point away from the fact that it is the working peoples jobs that the rich have consistently undermined and, it was never the poor or working classes that ran the slave trade. The working class children as young as six used to be sent to the Botton of pit shafts while their elder brothers and sisters went beneath the sea to dig coal. It sickens me when I hear how Universities and schools are being allowed to brainwash our young people to think that everything in Britains past was bad. It wasn't ! We need to renationalise all that Mrs Thatcher privatised. Start educating our young people not the foreign competition. Stop those whose only care is their own wealth from wrecking our Nation. I have written this from my own thoughts, I had little education, worked helping on farms from age eight left school at fifteen brought up in extreme poverty and have had a lifetime doing the heaviest types of work for very little reward.
We have had over 40 years of failed privatisation! Thatchers dream has destroyed our, my country. We need to retrieve family values again! Can you do all these things? Or at least make a start!
Bring essential services into Public ownership, help to stop greed and self interest in Water, Gas, Electric, Transport, NHS Housing , Royal Mail. people before profit. Thankyou
Used to be a Labour party member but when Kier Starmer asked people like me (state pensioner) to leave, then came after winter fuel allowance, PIP, & just keeps pandering & sucking up to parasitic royalty, billionaires, corporates & tax avoiders I've become a Green party voter/supporter
I voted Labour last time, but I was expecting something different than more Conservative imitation. I think we need an old style Labour back so Public Ownership not just Public Contraol seems to be the way to go now that Privatisation has so obviously failed across the board. I look forward to your time as PM if you can deliver this. If not maybe I'll have to go for Angela.
We need to re nationalise water trains electricity and gas or is all this so called policy just going to be another labour lie we need our rivers clean and our country strong
We need to stop private companies making huge profits from public services and making shareholders richer,when any profits should be reinvested in the community.
Hi - having read the We Own It letter, I am definitely in agreement with nearly everything it says, and hope you will be too. Not sure of the detail of notice periods for the rail franchises but three months does not sound long enough to be commercial, unless it applied to serious breaches. And serious breaches are certainly what our local water company, SWW, has committed. Good luck and please bring the water companies back into public ownership. As a water lover, swimmer and fisherman, what they are doing is outrageous and it must be stopped.
If you commit to public ownership of the NHS and utilities, I might vote for Labour again. This is not a Labour government, I left the party several years ago and as yet see no reason for return. Give me hope that we can get the Party back.
I have always voted Labour but am disappointed with the current government. We need more focus on support for the lower paid such as increasing the personal tax allowance. I am a pensioner who didn't pay tax until the allowance was frozen but am now paying more each year. It must be hard for everyone on a lower income. Also what a waste of money the HS2 is. I've had experience of travelling from Leamington to London regularly to visit my daughter and the trains are always full and often people standing. All it needed was more carriages on the trains and good maintenance of the existing lines. I hope you will read this and consider my points.
Dear Andy Burnham, I've been a lifelong Labour voter who has become very disappointed in the increasingly worsening performance of successive Labour party government and in opposition in the past years - basically since Gordon Brown resigned I've voted Labour tactically to keep out Reform and the Conservatives, rather than because I wanted to vote Labour. I'm particularly disappointed in Sir Keir Starmer/Rachel Reeves performance on so many issues there is no space for here except to say clarify the above open letter I've just signed that PUBLIC CONTROL IS NOT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP AND IS NOT AS GOOD AS PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. I hope you will be elected to Makerfield and then go on to succeed in a leadership challenge AND THEN DO THE RIGHT THING for the majority of people which include not only the traditional "working class" but the virtually extinct "middle class" in my lifetime / generation born 1960-1970 a few of whom have become "rich" in being able to afford what used to be the preserve of middle class - namely a modest lifestyle, home with garden and send their children to good local state schools ie not really "the rich" but you have to now be rich to afford that, and then the majority of middle class who are now poor (like me - single woman, state school and university educated no kids; paying out of net low income though not quite low enough for the various assistances or state benefits which I wouldn't want to have to rely on in any event, for private infrastructure investment and private debt of electricity and water companies which ought to be what our income tax with the relevant allowance threshold pay for; pension age goalpost changes not at the beginning of a working career applied to say those born in 10 year tranches 2000-2009; 2010-2019 etc as they do in Australia, but towards the end when it it's too late even with 8 or 10 years or much less to go to make appropriate allowance) or just clinging on or having to work all hours of the day and night to give their kids a good education due to the failed state school catchment system (insufficient school places in good state schools within a catchment), which option for betterment is now removed, so that with VAT, private schools are now the preserve of the super rich elite with pupils thrown back onto a state system which won't be fixed for decades and won't be funded by the VAT changes because of all the people who will have to take their kids out of those schools because it is now completely unaffordable; The retrospective effect of many changes brought in rather than applying to people not yet on a system - not only pension age increases but things like the 2-child benefit cap - I know Labour didn't bring it in and has now removed it but it ought never to have been introduce to apply to those already on the system - for example it could have been brought in perhaps more justly to apply only to those who conceive a 3rd child or more AFTER they're already on benefits. That would have brought it in line with the general population who have to moderate their family aspirations according to what they can afford. I use that and the pension age increases as examples only that laws ought not to be brought in which would have retrospective effect to existing scenarios which people rely on and which gives them certainty. Another issue is inheritance tax - it is not only a double tax but it is also not a "wealth tax", applying as it does to estates worth more than £325K for single people who have no children but want to pass on to their family eg siblings or nephews or nieces. A wealth tax ought to apply to INCOME - such as 1% on the top 1% of INCOME earners. then there is the environment and planning law changes which demonise ordinary people with valid objections as NIMBY in an already skewed system massively in favour of developers and licence applications, handing them a blank cheque for development - all to the detriment of the existing residential amenity as well as to what is left of our terribly depleted natural environment. I have it on good authority from a planning consultant that much of the housing problem is from developers sitting on approved applications out of greed. Anyway, Andy Burnham I hope you get in at Makerfield and I hope you become Prime Minister and I hope you bring in real, visionary policies which make a difference to the majority by closing the disparity between the real rich versus the middle poor and poor and the terrible effect on our natural environment - rather listen to conservation groups about how to manage the housing crisis in a sustainable way and to provide quality amenity in housing - public and private - without destroying the existing amenity and what is left of our precious natural environment - which includes gardens threatened by over-building and light exclusion. yours sincerely Fleur Kreel
Please renationalise water and other utilities. I used to vote Labour and was a member but left when the party left me. I voted Green in the last general election and am likely to do so again unless Labour radically changes
Sadiq Khan, to his credit, has just called time on the Met's planned £50m contract with Panlantir. Peter Kyle has, in the same breath, condemned Khan's action and said he believes AI will deliver great things and we need more home grown AI companies in the UK!!! How does he think Palantir grew big? By using big US government contracts to develop their technology - how can he call for home grown technology and support big, publicly funded contracts going to rapacious foreign companies? I hope you will have the opportunity to take on this sort of nonsense too!
We have had too many years of politicians who say one thing but actually intend something else. To expect trust in future, politicians must be clear and very specific about their true intentions
As a member of the Labour Party since 1974, I'm still gutted that it dropped Clause 4. To become a sheep in wolf's clothing is not what I expected? Please support public ownership and help build public confidence in Labour’s election.
Dear Andy Burnham I am really encouraged by your belief in public control of utilities and want to support the eventual development of public ownership as set out in this excellent letter by We Own It. I am an ex Labour member now supporting the Greens and wishing you well in the upcoming by-election.
Please will you commit to positive long-term thinking and planning, no longer the usual short-term media-pleasing negativity we’ve suffered for too many years? And tell the media and public that this is what’s needed, and will be the real change everyone wants.
We need public ownership of all the companies privatised by the Tory governments . It’s time to take back control and without compensation, they’ve had enough off the taxpayer for their offshore accounts. It’s time to do the right thing and bring them back into public control.
I am a life long labour voter but I feel labour have lost touch with it's grass roots. There is a real likelihood that reform will grab the raynes of power at the next general election. Unless labour do something radical like put services back into the hands of the people I see no reason to support a party that just backs market control.
As a lifelong labour supporter I am horrified at the lack of unity within the 400plus MPs and the waste of effort by Labour MPs by undertaking this intra party election with so much to do on the national scene
Hi Andy. I normally support the Liberal Democratic Party but I wish you the best in your effort to return to Parliament. I am very disappointed with all the privatisation that has gone on in our country and the way even this labour government has been in the pockets of big business. Praful
the Water Companies seem to make enormous profits but when asked to improve the service they provide and stop polluting open water and rivers they always seem to avoid a significant change that will do just that which begs the further quation where does all that monet go.
I voted green in local elections and that is the first time since I was able to vote. I have always been a labour supporter and if the Labour Party can get back on track for the public sand not for private interests, I will vote Labour again. Let’s hope Andy Burnham can do it!!!!
Thank you for all the effort you put into what you do, to rally round and encourage people to rally around and support you. I have told lots of my family about the good you do (some are nurses, teachers even 2 doctors and a retired lecturer, also friend that I worked with before I retired as a Nurse. Unfortunately I I think all my preaching has fallen on deaf ears,
As a very elderly lady who retired at 81 due to a nasty fall and I worry non stop that the money I have worked hard for will be taken instead for my children will be spent on care of I no longer able to take care of myself.I support and hope your plans for the future will come true
Foreign owners of public power and utilities only want the profits from them and disregard the infrastructure which they let deterioate about time all public amenities including railways return to full public ownership
Suggest adding to the letter: Investigate and bring to justice the pack of dishonest operators who were behind the purging of Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Loach and others from the Party, such as McSweeny, Barros-Curtis and others of the “Labour Together” gang.
I’m a former NHS Blood and Transplant lab technician who had to retire after 33 years due to ill health. I could never understand why we charged the hospitals ( also NHS) for blood which had been freely DONATED by the public. I don’t vote for any particular party but according to their policies. I wish you well in your election campaign.
It’s not a big ask to have public services back, it’s common sense. We have one the largest economies and 3rd world living standards and services. Polluted waterways, the trains are a joke, the NHS staffed by agencies, roads the look like they’ve been bombed. Middle management structures such as police commissioners with hugh budgets instead of police officers. We Are A Feast For Corporations And Billionaires. MY FAMILY HAS BEEN LABOUR ALL OUR LIVES BUT , LIKE MANY OTHERS, WILL VOTE UNITE UNLESS LABOUR CAN REMEMBER WHY IT WAS FORMED.
We vote for whichever political party delivers public ownership of crucial services such as NHS, transport, water, energy... and supports peaceful foreign policy and end to wars.
My dad was active in the Labour Party his whole life. I used to deliver leaflets for him as a teenager. I’ve also been a member and active until three years ago. I live in Haringey and voted green in the last General Election and the recent local elections. I left Labour because of Starmer’s right wing policies on privatising the NHS, academy schools, public/private housing, welfare, not renationalising energy, water, transport etc, immigration, Gaza, the list goes on. And on.
I want a socialist government and Starmer is not providing that. I don’t want my taxes to help fund a genocide. I’m very concerned about the influence of Israel in our democracy.
I don’t want to be in an authoritarian party that does not allow members to select their own local candidates. I’m appalled that long time members such as Ken Loach have been expelled and that Jeremy Corbyn was forced out.
I hope that if you were to become leader that you would listen to members and unite the party.
Andy, while I don't think you should be causing a leadership election at all, I will welcome you back as an MP. Please support We Own It's manifesto list: as a former Labour voter not convinced by the Greens, I believe a government should stand up for the people, not the corporations, and no Party will win votes unless it is seen to improve the quality of life for people in this country. I would also suggest that creating a hostile environment for immigrants and refugees is the root source what enables people to express appalling racism in this country.
I supported the great socialist victory in 1945 and I have Voted Labour ever since I have had the vote. Please take us back to a place where people had a say in their one lives.
I am a member of Your Party which also believes strongly in public ownership of national resources and services. This will hopefully end capitalist businesses ans shareholders making huge profits on natural resources and still greatly raising costs for consumers.
Andy, we need you in government again, when /if you get back into the Labour Party with this coming election you need to do for the country what you have done for Greater Manchester, it took time to take off, but you and your team managed it, please lets stop the in fighting within the Labour Party and make our country great again......(not to be confused with the American slogan for making their country great again !!) I, like my Dad before me, have always voted Labour, I am one of Angela Rayner's constituents, and pleased to say so. Good Luck Andy with your comeback xx
I will be extremely pleased if a) you win the Makerfield election b) and you eventually become prime minister. Please don't forget all of the above - I was a long term labour voter and voted labour in 2024, but wouldn't do so again if Kier Starmer was still PM. No offence to him - he's very intelligent but does not have the oomph that people look for,
My parents and uncles came to this country as refugees fron the Spanish civil war and were treated very well by the British people. I am hoping against hope that Farage never gets to a position of power in the UK, his attitude to immigrants among other things, makes my blood boil. Very best of luck in the byelection and in getting to be PM.
I think Clive Lewis would potentially be more in line with We Own It and would get my vote if he got on the ballot to be the next Labour leader and potential Prime Minister. Just like the ‘Block Bernie (Saunders), Clive wouldn’t be allowed to stand as his policies are more progressive and based in Socialism.
our services should be publicly owned. it is common semse that if there are profits to be made they should go right back into the provision of the service... not into the pockets of shareholders who care for nothing but their own pockets.! I vote SNP and i live in scotland....i watched Thatcher do this to our nation we need to take back what was wrongfully stolen from us in the name of greed.! It is heartwarming that you might help in this worthy cause...thank you.
I have always been a staunch supporter of Andy Burnham, I'm thrilled to hear that he's interested in becoming the Labour Party leader. I was a Labour Party member and a member of unison for many years, when Kier Starmer decided that Jeremy Corbyn couldn't run as a Labour Party member in the general election, I decided I will no longer vote Labour, so I voted for the Green party instead. Andy Burnham, with progressive, social democratic policies, is the leader we need at this time, to move the country into the future. He'll definitely get my vote, and wholehearted support.
We know it makes sense. If any profit is made, that’s to our benefit. Even if any underinvested cost cutting is done WE would get that “benefit”. It’s a win-win. Individuals extracting profit to the detriment of the populace only encourages a selfish society.
We need all our assets in common ownership. We are getting a two-tier NHS, ridiculous water scandals, and many another thing. Only not nuclear power please. Get rid of it.
Private ownership of public services never works. I am a lifelong Labour supporter and it grieves me that the Labour Party thinks that private ownership of public services is OK.
all public services have to be brought back under public ownership i voted for jeremy corbyn who was the best prime minister we never had at the local elections i voted green because i believe in there policies starmer has turned the labour into a watered down tory party thanking you phil watson
We, the people demand that our public services are run by US…. Our government. The profits should be used for further development and great staff pay and perks….NOT for shareholders…….make the workers the ‘shareholders, ‘ and watch how they will take a good service and make it excellent. Schools, hospitals, transport, water and energy companies….run by us for US.
I've never voted anything but Labour. After 13 years of the last administrations I desperately hoped that Labour could deliver on its promises while in opposion.
So far I hav been so disappointed with the Labour party's disappointingly timid approach to its rhetoric and manifesto commitments. I'm now believing that this the last chance for any real change - as a 77 year old community worker and carer I'm fervently hoping that I won't die before seeing a real Labour government.
I've recently becaome completely disencfranchied locally, with local authority having been left with no Labour councillors and having had a Labour MP murdered.
You seem to be our last chance.
A huge responsibility but please - don't blow it.
Also, given the fracturing of current politics, evn though it's not part of any Labour manaifesto, can you move on replacing first past the [post voting?
I hope you will appeal to people who currently vote Reform because they think their leader sounds like an 'ordinary' bloke. I think your approach makes much more sense. To me, you are a real man of the people. Please don't let anyone persuade you to just give us more of the same as we have now. We need real socialism with fairness and kindness to everyone. Good luck! I am a Labour voter and would love to get our party back.
Having voted Labour most of my life because I always thought of the party as having the best possible outcomes for working people at the centre of all they do. I am so sad that we have allowed our basic services be bought by the highest bidder and not the ones who have our countries interests at heart. This making us vulnerable as we've seen recently. I'm forever hopeful that rational thinking will prevail and I believe that you Andy Burnham feel the same and are the one to stop the madness that's happening to our country at this time. Good luck.
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Rob Oldfield 3 weeks ago
As a Lib Dem voter I'd say public ownership is desperately needed.
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Jenny Martin 3 weeks ago
You have done excellent work in greater Manchester. If you go it is likely that reform will take your place and greater Manchester will be doomed.
It seems that even if you do become PM you will not be able to put into practice all the socialist reforms that are vital, because Labour is too right wing. Please abandon your ambition and stay where you are able and appreciated to do the right things. Thank you.
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William Morton 3 weeks ago
We need to take back what’s ours. No hedge funds or private companies milking us dry
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Phil Hatton 3 weeks ago
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Mary Harlington 3 weeks ago
Go for public ownership of those services which meet the essential needs of all of us.
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Les Bignall 3 weeks ago
As a lifelong supporter of Labour I have no problem adding my name to this submission. Although I was a young person at the time I do recall the heady days of the post war era
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Norman Hooks 3 weeks ago
A united Labour Party with its large parliamentary majority could transform the UK as the post-war Attlee government; just needs someone with the vision to see this through.
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Simon T Martin 3 weeks ago
We need bold action and these half measures are not going to improve things.
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Patricia Hornsby 3 weeks ago
I support the Green Party currently but would support Labour if you brought in a wealth tax as advocated by Gary Stevenson and took steps to rejoin the EU.
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Patricia Foley 3 weeks ago
We - the ordinary British people,have been exploited across the board since the 1980s. I have voted for both Labour & the Green parties and am poorer now than ever. It is time for the asset stripping to cease - all utilities need to be publicly owned, as they once were; whilst all NHS deals with the US & private companies everywhere must cease. It feels like we're going backwards ...
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Peter Smithurst 3 weeks ago
public ownership, as oppossed to 'public control' is vital if the country is to be better served and not held to ransom tp pay revenues to shareholders.
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Terence Steele 3 weeks ago
Privatisation works for one group of people - those who finance and run it!
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John Scholey 3 weeks ago
Take them back
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Paul O'Brien 3 weeks ago
Public ownership now!
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Teresa 3 weeks ago
Please please address the attacks on our NHS. The proliferation of cohorts who are not medically qualified to meet policies of Doctor substitution are a risk to patients & a deliberate move towards a 2 tier health system. The only groups to benefit from this are private health providers, certainly not us patients.
It would also be prudent if the Health Secretary were forbidden to accept donations from private health care organisations as has been the situation re Wes Streetings tenure.
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Michael Hendren 3 weeks ago
Im stuck in Northern Ireland
Where we dont suffer just as much with privatisation YET.
But I'd kove you to prove that public ownership is the answer. Maybe itll stop the Dinosaur Unionist Party here bringing more in
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Terry Bedford 3 weeks ago
I’m all for this. It’s the only way forward.Time to stop the rampant race towards an American style of government
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martin spiers 3 weeks ago
Andy,
Please considere all the points made in the letter.
Martin
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Alec Murdoch 3 weeks ago
As a nation we need to have control over our water and energy sources. Selling them off to other countries was always madness, or greed.
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Anne Spiers 3 weeks ago
Just do it
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Jennifer Blackbird 3 weeks ago
We need to know what his views are
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Jan Sweeney 3 weeks ago
Please bring utilities back to nationalisation . These bills are crippling and have major impact on family life .
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Ariane McGhie 3 weeks ago
When you become prime minister I really hope that you remain true to these values and also consider / preferably remove support for the very damaging Zionist's regime in Israel which has been committing heinous crimes against humanity! Along with the control over our media and government!
Wishing you the best!
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Malcolm Barnes 3 weeks ago
We need Andy Burnham to sort this mess out !
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Jenny Kassman 3 weeks ago
So much more to rectify following the Starmer disaster, but this would be a good start.
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Michael Renney 3 weeks ago
Give up Andy you are just spoiling things as they appear to be improving. None of your ideas are different from those now being put into motion. You baled out last time so do the decent thing and stay out.
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Anthony 3 weeks ago
I thought the Labour party would be the opposite to the right wing decline, but under Keir starmer we have had a continuation of the same policies. I hope you can offer hope where it has been lost.
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Ian McLeod 3 weeks ago
Since privatisation costs for using these sevices has sky rocketed and the sevices have not improved. The best railways are run by governments rather than private companies.
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David Callow 3 weeks ago
Please nationalise all of our public services!
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Jennifer Tierney 3 weeks ago
I am a lifelong Socialist, though currently feeling politically homeless, having used my vote tactically in the recent local elections.
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Brian Morris 3 weeks ago
You know how divisive British politics have become.
You know that the Labour Party was once able to blame the Conservatives for their class-based policies and to blame everyone else for splitting the Left vote.
You know that UKIP and Leave and Reform have stolen Labour's clothes and effortlessly portray Labour as old-fashioned, mad-liberal, anti-white, pro-immigrant idiots blindly oblivious of their roots and their role in our current troubles.
Do you think you can show voters that Labour can heal and build?
Do you think you can persuade voters that you will be a hardworking constituency MP, whatever offices you might aspire to?
Do you think you can escape the accusations of carpetbagging, entryism and parachute politics?
I surely hope so.
I don't believe that you can win on an aggressive negative anti-Reform platform.
You know that you can
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Alan Ritson 3 weeks ago
Good luck in the by-election.
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Stephanie Bowgett 3 weeks ago
Public services are to important to be subject to the whims of people seeking personal profit.
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Gordon Lyons 3 weeks ago
Clean our rivers
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Mary 3 weeks ago
I support returning services to public ownership but it must be done to improve services. Northern Rail has already been in public hands for several years yet does not operate Sunday services between Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. There are replacement buses now but we want our rail service restored.
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Mark Butler 3 weeks ago
Dear Mr Burnham,
Our water is a matter of national security, it is critical that we take back ownership. You need to make this a priority.
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Richard Gardner 3 weeks ago
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Jill Green 3 weeks ago
I am absolutely convinced of the need to take our vital services such as water, rail andi energy into public ownership.
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Margaret Brock 3 weeks ago
Please stand up for our public services!
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Suzanne Kelsey 3 weeks ago
I have always supported Labour and was a member and elected women’’s officer for my CLP. However I left as I was not happy with various actions of the party since Starmer. I have met Andy a few times as a I was a keen NHS campaigner. I will support him if he protects our NHS from profiteering and invests in it fully . Please do not follow neoliberalism with its obscene greed whilst so many are suffering from neglect in a wealthy civilised country of which hard working people are the backbone.
I worked hard all my life but now sadly a lone pensioner just managing a serious chronic illness. I am afraid of my future due to the rise of the far right and such hatred in society, plus the struggles so many of us already have. I don’t feel safe.
Thank you… 🙏
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Paul Smith 3 weeks ago
Public ownership is not enough!
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Suzanne Kelsey 3 weeks ago
Thank you for all your hard work
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Brian Salisbury 3 weeks ago
I’m a member of Your Party
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Robin How 3 weeks ago
Please clarify your views
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Ben Crang 3 weeks ago
End the privatization scam. Bring the privatized industries back into public ownership.
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Diana Barlow 3 weeks ago
Good luck with your new direction, hope you win.
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Lesley Udberg 3 weeks ago
It would be perfect to have many organisations back in public ownership, stopping the fat cats profiting, whilst for example our once pristine rivers & lakes were pristine and private ownership has turned many into open sewers, killing fish and river animals habitat andstopping families enjoying an idylic day out in nature.
Any organisation with share holders only look for profit, not employees rights and the general public means nothing to them.
Someone needs to make a stand & ihipe it is you, as so much could be done with our NHS if the money went to Consultants/Senuor Nurses, to run the hospitals, were money could be used were needed, not in high salarys of pen pushers.
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Dr Sai Loo 3 weeks ago
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James Gibson 3 weeks ago
Public services should remain in public hands and run for the benefit of the customers they serve and the staff who work for them. The profits from our blood, sweat and tears should not be given to a privileged wealthy few but 8nstead should be used to benefit the entire country. I work for Royal Mail and I have seen the damage that privatisation has done to the service we provide.
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Lynne Ismail 3 weeks ago
I support Liberal Democrats
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Jon Hall 3 weeks ago
I voted Green at the recent local elections despite being a lifelong Labour supporter up until that point. But with you as Labour leader I would definitely consider coming back to Labour.
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James Gibson 3 weeks ago
Public services should remain in public hands and run for the benefit of the customers they serve and the staff who work for them.
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Elizabeth Burton 3 weeks ago
This is a great opportunity to right the wrongs of the Thatcher era please don't throw it away
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Claire Cuthbertson 3 weeks ago
Nationalisation now
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Peter Carter 3 weeks ago
Andy.
Please save the Labour party.
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David Rae 3 weeks ago
I voted Labour and I believe Andy Burnham offers the best prospect for Labour's leadership to take on Reform and to win the next General Election
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Lindsay Casselden 3 weeks ago
Since the Labour Party abandoned socialism I have been voting Green. Please give the country a real caring party back that puts the interests of the working class first.
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Fenton James Court 3 weeks ago
Excellent ideas
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Chris Nestor 3 weeks ago
Please read the comments in full. Thank you.
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Cathy Leng 3 weeks ago
No further comments
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Heather Glenn 3 weeks ago
I used to vote Labour until Starmer, now I will vote Green.
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Ian Shepherd 3 weeks ago
We've heard from Labour candidates over many elections about their support for bringing sold off industry's into public ownership, but this either is never done, or carried out at a painfully slow pace. How committed will you be, if successful in your bid, to follow your words with actions, and bring these areas into the public sphere, so their profits can be put to the use of the people of Britain, rather than only it's business community? I feel that this would be a hugely popular position for Labour, perhaps winning it the support that it seems to have lost; Can you explain why such a policy is not fully acted on, and what/who is stopping it being implemented?
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Robert Watters 3 weeks ago
I want public ownership!
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Heather Glenn 3 weeks ago
I used to vote Labour, I now vote Green
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Maria Schiller 3 weeks ago
Excellent!
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Ian Thomson 3 weeks ago
Show you really care and want to help the public at large beyond sponsors and conflicted corporate interests!
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Graham Bilbie 3 weeks ago
We need our services back in public ownership, because of the shocking state all private companies are in,they are only interested in two things profit and huge Bonuses
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Alexandra Bevis 3 weeks ago
thank you
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stephanie Futcher 3 weeks ago
I have very little faith in politicians but you seem to be interested in giving people back some of what has been taken from them.
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Mary Mc Neill 3 weeks ago
II agree with the aims Andy Burnham has for England esp Privatisation.
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Kelvin Lewis 3 weeks ago
We need someone with some getup and go before the next election or we will be in trouble
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Gillian Ratcliffe 3 weeks ago
Lets have real public control and not the fake one the Labour government has tried to foist on us, we are not stupid out here, we know what they are doing.
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Andy Hamilton 3 weeks ago
Bring the Burnham politics to the whole of the UK!
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Narendra Shah 3 weeks ago
No further comment
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John Headon 3 weeks ago
My political leanings are closest to the Green Party and I think the demands in this letter are just the minimum
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Rose Trickett 3 weeks ago
I remember Thatcher's sell off of our country's national infrastructure. I believe it was a crime against the people. I really believe if you can push this through over the next few years we would all be better off, and not just financially but also emotionally, mentally and in physical health.
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Narendra Shah 3 weeks ago
No further comment
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Julie Boltwood 3 weeks ago
Hi Andy, I’m a socialist, I believe that basic human necessities like water and shelter shouldn’t be used as leverage to get cheap labour out of people. There should be a living wage and all companies trading in the uk should pay tax.
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Kenneth Rapley 3 weeks ago
Please carry out the work promised by Labour in their manifesto.Provide a reasonable time line to bring bills to The House Of Commons to legislate and pass as law.
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Ray Walton 3 weeks ago
Why is it never mentioned in news reports and films regarding the Sewage Treatment bills ‘rip off’?
I think it is only fair that customers/public 'estimated' sewage
treatment bills are re-calculated, taking into account that every time, 'past and
present,' companies ‘deliberately’ ‘failed’ to treat raw sewage at a
Sewage Treatment Works but 'deliberately' dumped it untreated via their CSO's(Combined Sewage Overflows) to where the company ‘deliberately’ incurred no
treatment costs, but they have still 'compulsory' charged customers for the sewage treatment process that has not occurred, to profit company CEO's, Directors and Shareholders, when customers have not received the companies lawful
statutory duty service. Customers should be refunded the 'fraudulent' charges
made…for the past 35years!
It seems this is an ongoing ‘Joint Enterprise Fraud’. If they 'deliberately' fail to provide the service, due to their own interests to cut company costs to profiteer by avoiding sewage works maintenance and improvements to sewage treatment infrastructure (which customers have already continuously payed for for since privatisation in 1989, which is around £80+Billion) to which instead has been payed out to private shareholders, CEO's, Directors etc. of the companies, & which may also include Govt Regulators like the EA etc.
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY PENSION FUND CRITICISED FOR OWNING STAKES IN UK WATER FIRMS..
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/10/environment-agency-pension-fund-criticised-for-owning-stakes-in-uk-water-firms?fbclid=IwY2xjawQLDTdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF2czNEeTFmUnozYTlzZWNPc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkLXikU71QFyxnJlUX4QtuLWRY_EHTeW8bk8mLFh9ZM0IQ-cRfYHliOVrF2t_aem_l7mxwcO-oWbFtkgVMVRfZA
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Mark Jones 3 weeks ago
I’m an ex-Labour Party voter and member (I vote Labour in local elections). I currently vote for the Green Party in general elections. The more that you stand up to the Bond Markets (who hate anything vaguely socialist), the greater the chance that I, and likely very many others, will return to the Labour Party fold?
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Catherine Goodman 3 weeks ago
I'm a Labour party member and would like to see all the above points made. I believe that you are a truly Labour person, not a so-called 'blue Labour' opportunist, so I've signed this letter in the hope that Labour returns to its traditional principles, which I believe you represent, Mr Burnham. Good luck in the by-election!
Yours, Cathy Goodman.
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Mik Norman 3 weeks ago
Let's be clear: Public control is NOT public ownership. Where do you stand Andy Burnham?
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Brian Hudson 3 weeks ago
I cannot add anything to the comprehensive open letter except that I am a member of the Green Party.
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Rosemary Youatt 3 weeks ago
For me removing private corporations from the NHS
is priority.
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Alexandra Gray 3 weeks ago
Bringing public services back into public ownership is an excellent step towards improving the lives of the people of Britain. I used to support Labour but feel abandoned by their swing to the right and their support for dehumanising policies more fitting the Conservatives. I am now a member of the Green Party.
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Tom Winter 3 weeks ago
I am a former Labour Party member & one of the main reasons I left was Kier Starmer’s wholesale reneging on his pledges which he gave to get into power. Abandoning pledges to return key utilities into public ownership was a big part of this, & shows a lack of seriousness about tackling the cost of living crisis of which the exorbitant cost of private, gas, electric & water bills are a large contributory factor.
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Marilyn Gaunt 3 weeks ago
It is crucial for our National security that all vital services and infrastructures are publicly owned not for profit and with no private investment which prioritises profit above all else.
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Jill Miles 3 weeks ago
Labour voter
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Mary Mc Neill 3 weeks ago
I agree strongly that Privatation of water and rail which Andy Burnham aims to do
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StephenGarrood 3 weeks ago
Mr Burnham you’ve not been a member of parliament, nor a regular a parliament! You reside in northern England with no interest in the south of Britain either ? With no interest or envolvement in the world politics! How will you cope with the strong world leaders with respect of representation of Britain? It’s tough on the world stage , and you seem naive and really backward on all. Plus you are really just a left wing cloth cap something??
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Abelardo 3 weeks ago
Nationalising is one step forward. Democratising the services is another. The NHS has been nationalised from the start but is not democratic. What will you do to democratise services?
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Teresa Tully 3 weeks ago
We want real change not more broken promises
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David Budd 3 weeks ago
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George Ord 3 weeks ago
People before profits
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MR ARTHUR COLLINS 3 weeks ago
I sincerely hope that you win in Makerfield as the country need you to lead us out of the mess that Starmer is making. Hopefully if you do get there you make a better job of it than you did my request to you for transport improvements in September 2023.
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Carol 3 weeks ago
Off with the lanyard. Renationalise all utilities and travel. Free school dinners. And Breakfast Club. For all children. And bus fares. Squeeze the rich to refresh the rest of us. Don’t just say it. Mean it. Use Gordon Brown. He’s the best of them Good luck You will need it.
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Tracy Marsden 3 weeks ago
Reduce pension age so normal day to day people can have a chance of enjoying retirement whilst still reasonably fit and healthy. Give us our pensions and train those on benefits who could work or out of work through no fault of their own into our jobs. This must surely be cheaper in the long term than paying out benefit money to thousands who could work given a chance and the cost of sickness for older people forced to work till they drop and the cost of their healthcare and sick pay.
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David McCulloch 3 weeks ago
Control is not enough. We need public ownership and this is possible without huge investment, as the water companies are insolvent if adequate fines are imposed.
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Margaret Shea 3 weeks ago
Our public services belong to the people not to private enterprise for greed and profiteering. People can invest if they choose to make it mutual enterprise but not gross privatisation to reward big businesses. Or so called Charities relying on good will while CEO pocketing huge salaries/perks.
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David Cowap 3 weeks ago
I hope, really hope, that you will sincerely carry out what you are promising, as your party got to power on promises that they had no intention of carrying through. From pensioners through to N H S to care for the elderly, we were consistently lied to, that’s why the results in the local elections were so damaging to Labour😡 So if this is more lies to get elected then it will be a tough uncomfortable journey.
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Nick 3 weeks ago
Labour Party member. Good luck, Andy!
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Sarah Holmes 3 weeks ago
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Richard Gilbert 3 weeks ago
I agree
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Julie King 3 weeks ago
I want to support a Labour government and public ownership of the essential services is the main reason I am disappointed with the Keir Starmer government. If Labour can’t get this sorted out in the way it should be then I will vote Green in the next election.
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Annemarie McGuinness 3 weeks ago
Please make the labour party about the people the hard working people everyone talks about and not the rich elite and entitled people
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Karine Davison 3 weeks ago
I actually live in Scotland so a lot of the “asks” don’t actually apply.
However I do wish you all the best in this election , and hope that “the ordinary people “ will always be worked for in the UK.
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Jane Stone 3 weeks ago
We must do something in this country to make it clean and life worth living and not just existing .We also must invest in our infrastructure hospitals and wages .Please give people of this country Hope .
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Sheila Brayford 3 weeks ago
I am reading THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. About Neoliberalism. It makes very alarming reading. Recommended to you if you haven't read it already
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SUSAN WELLS 3 weeks ago
Lib Dem voter for local reasons (South Devon), although voted Labour under Corbyn leadership. Aged 78, so seen a lot of governments and know what I like. There is NO chance of my voting Labour with another Blairite in charge. LDs not up to much nationally, and I tend to support Greens now.
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Emma Johnston 3 weeks ago
I would like full public ownership of everything from fully renationalising the NHS to the steel industry, utilities, transport etc. I am a member of ' Your Party '.
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Jen Medway 3 weeks ago
Don’t miss this opportunity.
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Jean Apps 3 weeks ago
I hope, if you become an MP, Andy, that you will play your part in restoring the Labour Party to being again what its Rule Book falsely claims it still is, i.e. a truly "democratic socialist" party, that collaborates with ordinary people in serving the common good. Most people want to feel treated as stake-holders in their country amd communities, not primarily as consumers.
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Sheila Brayford 3 weeks ago
I am reading THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. About Neoliberalism. It makes very alarming reading. Recommended to you if you haven't read it already
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Bronwen Roberts 3 weeks ago
Listen to the majority of us and commit to renationalisation of all services as soon as possible.
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Susan Foster 3 weeks ago
Public Ownership please!
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Yvonne Loucopoulos 3 weeks ago
Hopefully he would deliver as it’s time this country had someone committed to improve people’s lives after years of suffering
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Suzan Richards 3 weeks ago
Get rid of private ownership. We are sick of subsidising Chinese, German, French children education. While we are all over charged here using our own utilities for a very bad service just look at out water companies if you need visuals
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Monica Collingham 3 weeks ago
It is morally wrong that essential services(water, gas, electricity etc) are being supplied by private companies. Private companies exist only in order to generate profits for their shareholders. Essential utilities should be publically owned, with the objective not to make money, but to provide a service to the UK public, and they should be accountable to that public. Any surplus income should automatically be ploughed back into the organisation and invested for the public good.
Thatcher basically stole publicly owned assets and gave them away, in order to secure votes. It is high time that those assets were restored to their rightful owners, the taxpayers who paid for them in the first place. Until we get some basic morality back into politics, people will continue to be disillusioned and will dis-engage from the whole process- a dangerous situation for democracy.
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Leeanna Hassen 3 weeks ago
Thank you
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Pam Jibson 3 weeks ago
You are what the country needs. Some with drive and commitment and not necessarily supporting the things which will win a popularity contest. Sometimes the best decisions are the hard and unpopular ones
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Patricia Simpson 3 weeks ago
Too many companies making too much profit and not re investing back into the system and service
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Richard Bagnall 3 weeks ago
I have voted labour more often then any other party. I have voted green once and liberal twice as local labour politics annoyed me then. I fully support a return to public owned services away from private enterprise which is based on profit not service. I fully believe our nation has suffered from badly thought out privatisation. Labour in the past have been involved in this to a degree, PFI for example. But most of the blame lies with the conservatives. Public services are for people not profit! I fully support a leader who believes in this. Thanks 👍
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Douglas uttley 3 weeks ago
DO NOT OPEN OUR BOARDS. IF YOU DO YOU BECOME PART OF THE PROBLEM.
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Chris Durban 3 weeks ago
I’m a labour supporter living in the borough of Wandsworth London. I wish you good luck in any election you go forward for.
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Ann James 3 weeks ago
I have voted Labour all my life. I’m now 82. This Labour go vernment has been SO disappointing .So many people are relying on you Andy
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Judith Page 3 weeks ago
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GEOFF MATTHEWS 3 weeks ago
I pretty much agree with all of this. Kier Starmer has made much progress but I think he lacks the necessary 'vision'.
Please also consider proper taxation of property assets, increasing council tax bands for higher value properties AND a UK taxhaven holding surcharge.
Best wishes
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Alison Jacobson 3 weeks ago
I am a retired NHS worker and have been deeply concerned over the years about the back-door privatisation of my beloved and valued NHS.
I have always been a labour voter but have become somewhat disillusioned by the current government. I am keen to continue voting for labour as throughout my life their values have mostly aligned with my own.
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David Church 3 weeks ago
private owners are stealing excess profit from what are essentially National Assets that the Nation should own to maintain it's coherence as a sustainable Nation, and impoverishing us and making us more dependent on the whims of others who have taken all our money!
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Karen Johnson 3 weeks ago
I am a Labour Party member, I want public ownership on all kinds of things.
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Brian Hill 3 weeks ago
No public service should ever be "for profit".
Every penny that goes to shareholders is stolen from the service it's supposed to support.
They should be accountable, but should be "not for profit"
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Lorraine Newton 3 weeks ago
Thank you
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Beryl Whitehead 3 weeks ago
Public good before private gains
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Ms Phyllis J Hyde 3 weeks ago
I'm 73 and I've been a Labour Party member/voter and active trades unionist all my life. However, if the party can't commit, FINALLY, to the long overdue reversal of the economic crimes of Thatcher, then what is it FOR? I'm one of many pensioners currently looking at switching to the Greens.
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Raymond Brown 3 weeks ago
Privatisation has clearly not worked in the majority of instances, leading to poorer services and profit for a few. Very undemocratic and not in the public interest.
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Vivienne Waterhouse 3 weeks ago
I’m a lifelong labour supporter and member. I support your views and direction of travel. I support working for health, wealth, educational, nutritional and wider resources equality, and the country is too far behind now. I support you and your direction.
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Susan Dixon 3 weeks ago
Please sign.
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Tim Atkin 3 weeks ago
At least some one is doing something about it
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Gill Nicholls 3 weeks ago
I have always supported socialism but in recent years have voted Green
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Stephen Scully 3 weeks ago
Do not act like Starmer and put forward progressive policies then not implement them if you gain power. Beware of the Mandelson/ McSweeney right wing !
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Sue (Anne Susan) Olive 3 weeks ago
I was a member of the Labour Party, and will be again when they
□ prioritise lifting the poorest out of poverty NOW
□ regulate employers: the Living Wage, good working conditions
ETC.!
□ partner with Trade Unions & charities
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Michael Cockburn 3 weeks ago
Hi. This country is crying out for a leadership which will at least start the process of rolling back the damage to our public services since 1979. It appears that, despite initial optimism, the Starmer administration will not take that route. I am a member of the Labour Party and have never voted another way; but my loyalty is being sorely tested. Should you become Prime Minister despite the many hurdles that involves, I would look to you to provide the direction and determination that the country desperately needs. Yours in solidarity, Michael
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June brown 3 weeks ago
We all want our country run by our people democratic rules not by
Who are running it know if we don’t start intervening soon it will be to latw
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Michael Bailey 3 weeks ago
Andy,
Please do the right thing and end this
Privatisation nonsense once and for all British citizens are sick and tired of this Thatcherite failed nonsense.
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Janet Marks 3 weeks ago
This govt needs to get on with it!
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Nilofar siddiqi 3 weeks ago
Goverment should take it over ie No to privatization
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Margaret Leeds 3 weeks ago
I support the Green Party but would accept them standing aside if you commit to public ownership of essential services should you become Prime Minister.
Public ownership not public control!
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Nilofar siddiqi 3 weeks ago
Goverment should take it over ie No to privatization
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Linda Weightman 3 weeks ago
It is time to stop subsidising companies which cost this country money through welfare. Companies have to pay staff what they are entitled to not basic salaries that mean they qualify for universal credit, that is subsidising companies and we’ve done it for years. It has to stop.
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Linda Walz 3 weeks ago
I worked in the NHS for over 30 years, for the last 10 the service was taken over by Virgin, now hcrg. Staff morale plummeted, services disbanded and recruitment and retention were terrible. With no recognition of Unions, staff are afraid to speak out, they were told not to say anything negative about the service to CQC.
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Sharilee Thorpe 3 weeks ago
Thank you.
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Alan Hearn 3 weeks ago
Time to admit Thatcher and the crooks that followed her LIED and give this country back to the PEOPLE who SHOULD own it!
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Bernard Cleary 3 weeks ago
Public ownership is the only way forward, taking it back and give them nothing.
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David Moore 3 weeks ago
Please return the Labour Party to post war values of 80 years ago!
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Richard Le Corney 3 weeks ago
I would also ask you to pursue rejoining the European Union to roll back the disaster that Brexit has been. Cancel HS2 to save the projected future costs of £50 billion plus. And embrace degrowth rather than perpetually growing the economy (see Jason Hickel's "Less is More").
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Angela Coburn 3 weeks ago
Right the crippling wrongs of Thatcher, get us back out essentials.
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henrietta wayne 3 weeks ago
Andy Burnham, you are our hope for radical change that prioritises the public good over corporate prof
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Helen Knott 3 weeks ago
I am a member of the Labour Party, and support what you are doing politically. I wish you every success in your forthcoming election bid/s
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Sue Steele 3 weeks ago
As a Labour voter for over 50 years, I feel it is vital that Labour return all the utilities to public ownership. They are providing a service - or should be - not profit making ventures. It is time for Labour to move away from neoliberalism and trickle down economics - they don’t work for ordinary people. If you want ordinary people to participate fully in the economy - isn’t that what real economic growth is about? - then we need our services back in our control.
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Carole Doherty 3 weeks ago
Yes having worked in the NHS for 37 years I have watched how privatisation has decimated care.
Care delivered at the bedside is no longer sustainable due to low wages. High costs and the private sector robbing the NHS for contracted out surgeries which were never done, but were charged astronomical amounts.
All try be services should be reinstated to public ownership.
Not filling the pockets of shareholders at the expense of the general public.
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Diane Hibbert 3 weeks ago
I’m a lifelong Labour Party voter, child of the Welfare State - cradle to grave, Trades Unionist, so I’ll be watching you very carefully.
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John jackson 3 weeks ago
The current 'new' New Labour Party is a cesspit of self-serving, 'client' MPs prioritising the interests of billionaire tax-evades, corporate donors and a genocidal foreign state. If you expect our votes, YOU must have the courage and integrity to change that !!
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Marie Priest 3 weeks ago
I left the Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn was expelled. I had been a member since Ed Miliband was leader. The present Labour Party does not speak for me but I would love to feel that it represented my views again. That it had a leader who has firm principles that they stick to you and is a staunch ally of working people and their families, of the minorities who are so often blamed for society’s ills, for the poor and left behind. I want a leader that cares about the public services that we all rely on. Lastly I would like a leader that I could be proud of when they interact with other countries around the world, someone that is not corrupt and that stands up against oppression and blatant acts of wrongdoing.
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Nansi Eggleton 3 weeks ago
It’s so clear, we need to get back to the idea of public ownership - reflecting value placed on ordinary people, not billionaires and corporations.
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Shaun Martell 3 weeks ago
Your party is the answer 🙂
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Shaun Last 3 weeks ago
Please privatise water, energy and other utilities.
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Julian Sheppard 3 weeks ago
We need someone who represents the people of this country and not big business or the wealthy.
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Mike squires 3 weeks ago
We need democratic ownership and control if we are going to tackle climate change
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Regina Fattorini 3 weeks ago
The only hope for young people in this country is a more socialist government which promotes justice and equality- including supporting people being oppressed in other countries by sanctioning regimes executing genocide.
Tax the billionaires, build council houses & give the voters a credible alternative to the dreaded Reform & Tories. We do not want Starmer’s dishonest & disastrous pretence of a Labour Party!
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Teresa Mcgill 3 weeks ago
I don't support any Parliamentary.Party.
I support people power as exercised by We Own It.
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June Scott 3 weeks ago
I think privatiazion attracted greed.
Organisations which were previously government owned, just saw an opportunity to milk our economy. Starting with our water companies; they have CEO's who's only aim is to make as much profit as possible from the government but delivering poor service. E.g sewerage leaking and pollutinginto rivers, killing fresh water fish and affecting the lives of our people.
One particular example the CEO of southern eater earned an eye watering sum of £1.4 million package in one year. My water bill doubled overnight last year.ive had to cut back on my essentials just to ensure that the CEO has plenty of money in his bank account.If I earned that amount, I would never have to work again. This is just the tip of the iceberg. All the other organisations such as British rail, Highways,Councils NHS and many more are only interested in making huge profits, but not delivering quality service. Highways as another example, cutting corners; using cheap materials to repair pot holes which cause thousands to motorists, in car repairs. But Councils won't pay drivers who've been Affected by damage to their vehicles.
To summarize we need our government to claw back government ownership ASAP to stop privately owned companies milking our government and our economy.
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Linda Topping 3 weeks ago
Privatisation only works for shareholders, services did not improve. Public ownership will regulate the management of the utilities and be accountable. The scandal of Thames water would not happen under public ownership.
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Elaine Pope 3 weeks ago
I am a former Thames Water and Thames Conservancy employee before TW was privatised. We cared about our river and took great pride in its management. I worked from a perfectly adequate owned and paid for newly built building in Reading which after privatisation was knocked down and sold off by the privatised Company for private profit and another built in its place and leased back to them.It breaks my heart to see what the Company has allowed to happen to the infrastructure and how the Environment Agency have been in cahoots in not oreventing the pollution of our waterways. My okd bosses at Thames Conservancy will be turning in their graves. Take back Thames Water now and pay them nothing.
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Janet Dore 3 weeks ago
Locally I support Liberal Democrats but if there were to be a general election quite soon I would probably vote Labour to stop the rise of Reform UK.
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Keith 3 weeks ago
For People not fat cat profits.
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Christopher Richard Keene 3 weeks ago
Important letter
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Carl 3 weeks ago
Labour have broken the people they swore to protect! You are done!
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William lamb 3 weeks ago
Public ownership better and cheaper in the end.
What a mess private ownership has left us in!.
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Rosanne Bostock 3 weeks ago
I support Keir Starmer as Prime minister and wish Andywould stay in Manchester where he was doing an important job, it was tactical voting in Wakes a d Gorton to keep reform out.
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Helen Bramwell 3 weeks ago
Bring back respect and pride in our Country....
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James Donohue 3 weeks ago
The country needs an honest politician
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Kimberley Osullivan 3 weeks ago
What can I say
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Pamela Hackett 3 weeks ago
People in this country are working hard , pay their taxes and are barely keeping their heads above water . Privatisation works only for the billionaires who take their money away from the UK, avoid paying as much tax as possible , even living abroad to avoid uk taxes . Our children are unable to find jobs paying decent wages , because companies only pay minimum wages and part time hours whilst they fly in their private helicopters from site to site . We need a strong government who puts British people first and makes Britain strong again .
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Geoff Loveman 3 weeks ago
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Paul Davies 3 weeks ago
This - you - are our last chance to stop the billionaire backed Reform taking over the UK
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Daniel Codrington 3 weeks ago
Labour Party supporter.
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Jayne Barton 3 weeks ago
Please restore Labour to what they are supposed to stand for. People need a change.as they are losing the vote
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Catherine Fox 3 weeks ago
Now is not the time for faltering steps, half measures or pretending that it's 1997.
Now is the time for radical action, not limp management.
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Marjorie Shaw 3 weeks ago
I support this completely.
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Peter Morrow 3 weeks ago
No comment
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Shona Andrew 3 weeks ago
Please put an end to this appalling theft of the public and destruction of our rivers.
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Colin smith 3 weeks ago
Im and x labour voter but if u stand and win labour leader ill be back
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Nuha Elshamy 3 weeks ago
Do the right thing
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Sandra Wellington 3 weeks ago
The water situation is a scandal. This can only be fixes by reverting to public ownership.
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Amanda Beech 3 weeks ago
As a Labour voter all my life, and currently a party member, I am so disappointed that this government with its large majority has not taken these actions, and looks like Tory-lite. I’m on the verge of going Green. If you are elected MP, I will vote for your leadership challenge if you promise to make the changes we need and voted for. It was possible after WW2, why not now?
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Rachel Poulton 3 weeks ago
As well as bringing public services like water, power and transport back under public ownership we urge you to prioritise not selling off our NHS. US tech companies with deeply nefarious intent are infiltrating crucial systems and accessing our data and Labour are giving them full access. This is frightening. The public are scared and feel powerless. We must have an option to opt out.
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Rachel Horn 3 weeks ago
Fingers crossed !
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Julia coles 3 weeks ago
Also make nhs patient liaison services independent of nhs trusts so they are not beholden to the trusts but can request fairness and learning for all parties involved.
You are doing a great job Andy Burnham. Keep going.
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U 3 weeks ago
Privatisation always puts profits before people.
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Cathleen Catt 3 weeks ago
I’m not currently a member of a political party, but vote tactically to ensure whoever is most likely to work in the interests of ordinary people. In my constituency last time that was the Green Party. I have voted Labour and Liberal Democrat in the past.
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Maureen 3 weeks ago
Time Britain stop this privatisation and the public take control Britain has nothing to sell or grow,all we do is borough and fellow other countries control and rules timefor the people to wake up for better system.
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Amanda Frost 3 weeks ago
Please return the Labour Party to its true values
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Stephen White 3 weeks ago
At this moment the country needs a leader, sadly sir Kier Starmer is a good manager but has no leadership skills. He must not do a ‘Joe Biden’ and cling on to the role of PM when he is unable to fulfil it.
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Sara Price 3 weeks ago
The uk needs to protect its services, invest in them and reinvest profits made down the line. They are not cash cows for investors. Our environment and health suffers as a result of private interest.
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Carole 3 weeks ago
Just a thought: Stricter enforcement of standards, eg each time a water company discharges untreated sewage Ofwat should impose a penalty in the form of shares in the company. It would’ve in public ownership in no time!
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Mike Storey 3 weeks ago
Please start by redeeming Labour Party values
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Emma Fletcher 3 weeks ago
Please commit to public OWNERSHIP of water as a priority. This is not just greater control! The private system has utterly failed and water is an essential resource. I have moved to the Green Party because Labour have let this country down and we need bold changes.
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Claire Terry 3 weeks ago
I used to be a member of the Labour Party. I will only rejoin if clause 4/ a genuine commitment to public ownership of key industries and services is reinstated.
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Carol Walden 3 weeks ago
As a customer of Thames water, I am amongst many they are robbing blind. Prices rises to pay shareholders and not improve our water infrastructure is disgusting and down right criminal. They should lose their license and Thames water should be back in public ownership.
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Deborah West 3 weeks ago
Keep
Up the good work to fight for profit to
Be used on services not line shareholders pockets
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Jane Jenkins 3 weeks ago
We are crying out for a government who puts
the nations interests first and not profiteers. I joined the Green party because like many others believe in building a strong community based around human values and protecting the environment that we live in. We need a leader that we can trust and keep in office long enough to deliver!
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Jean Docherty 3 weeks ago
Does candidate have any links to Israel,
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Phil Thorogood 3 weeks ago
Member of Compass sick of being held to ransom by private equity.
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Carol Ross 3 weeks ago
Other essential issues include supporting Palestinine, ending the Ukraine war, Stopping the war mongering escalation
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thomas beard 3 weeks ago
Can you please help andy
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Michael Kelly 3 weeks ago
I agree with you which is why I am submitting this letter.
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Jean-Ann Clulow 3 weeks ago
Wishing you well in the by election, but please don’t let us down!
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Miss Claire Bygate 3 weeks ago
I have been a Labour voter all my life, but recently voted Green because Labour has not kept it's manifesto promises. I am looking for a reason to return to Labour at the next election.
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Sarah Windrum 3 weeks ago
Green Party member
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Martina 3 weeks ago
Please update me
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Christine 3 weeks ago
I support the green party because they are the only party to truly care about our environment, working people AND disabled people and because they support public ownership and a much needed wealth tax.
Zac Polanski and the green party have principles and integrity and under his leadership has shown that they have what it takes to engage people in hope for a better future, not by scapegoating immigrants and people on benefits but by pointing to the root cause of the country’s problems - GREED.
Andy Burnham has an opportunity to build on his success with the Bee network and show people that public ownership can be affordable and profitable with those profits being used to improve services for the benefit of the many, not the few.
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C Walsh 3 weeks ago
Let’s see what Burnham’s views will be if he becomes PM.
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Joe 3 weeks ago
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Diane Hodgkinson 3 weeks ago
Stop privatisation! It doesn't work! Only makes money for investors!
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Christine Clifford 3 weeks ago
Public ownership is essential as is rejoining thecEU with no red lines
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Maureen Peters 3 weeks ago
They must be held accountable. They are making this country a laughing stock.
Also , I might like to add , the laying to rest of digital ID . And to boot out Palantir from all contracts in the UK .
I wish Andy success .
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Alison Wotton 3 weeks ago
Please also stop Digital ID and Palantir
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Bob Dow 3 weeks ago
Good luck! Fingers crossed!
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Louise 3 weeks ago
I support public ownership and would like you to be clear where you stand
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Mikyla Limpkin 3 weeks ago
Actually listen to what Fergal Sharkey says campaigning about water - if the water companies listed on their accounts, the compulsory improvements required to meet legislation, they would be trading insolvent, and we could IMMEDIATELY take back ownership at NO COST!
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Karen 3 weeks ago
It’s high time that services are bought back into public ownership. The people of the UK have propped the private sector for too long. The money it’s cost and the service these privatised companies is at a mid-match. Please be the politician that can go down in history that finally done something BIg for the British people.
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Jane Allsopp 3 weeks ago
I am very glad to add my name to this letter. I am also adding my own request to these here, going beyond this list regarding the policy point of the economics of public ownership, to add more and be accurate about the costs of the private sector, not the state, owning essential services — because most people are now sicker and poorer, more lied to and cheated, with private provision. And national ownership of assets (eg water) and services (eg energy and medicine) is essential if people are to be taken care of and to be able to care for others. In the old saying, anything we need we can afford. There is no national debt after all, is there? I ask anyone this when discussing modern politics, and even the politically engaged say they don’t know. So I explain it to them, how the BoE began; I ask them about the £400bn that Johnson and Sunak added during Covid — what was it for (everyone furloughed, to buy food etc, to keep the money rolling around the system) who do we owe it to (no one)? And of course, they understand then. Any candidate, not only Andy Burnham, needs advisors who understand macro and microeconomics, who do not peddle neoliberal beliefs of the benefits of greed and rich people getting richer (it never trickles down), and who have a belief in public ownership, and not regulation and control — because we’ve stripped out accountability from our society. Impunity rules. Because those at the top get away with incompetence and corruption, accountability as a principle has been eroded from our lives at other levels.
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Lucy Franks 3 weeks ago
N/a
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Pauline Brennan 3 weeks ago
I'm hopeful that you'll do good and bring back some faith in Labour.
Labour/Green
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Jack Parkinson 3 weeks ago
All those things should be in public ownership, especially the railways. Make sure all this happens now!
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Janet Mackintosh 3 weeks ago
I think public ownership of water is one of the most important issues that this country should take to get back on track.
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Keith Burns 3 weeks ago
I vote only for those political parties that are NOT neoliberal - in local elections that has usually been small or independent parties.In national elections I am now drifting towards the Greens.
Going by it's history I view neoliberalism to be a terrorist ideology - demonstrably true since it's inception - and inimical to human survival. It is certainly anti-commoner (see the loss of the commons since neoloberal business interests have focused on wealth extraction from every possible national resource at the expense of the local population).
Water, energy, steel production capability, letter and small package postal ability, health (including dental), defence, education (for ALL age groups), prisons, and other vital strategic industries should NEVER have been privatised and should now be brought back into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. They should NOT be in private control or used to extract wealth from the common man and woman. They are vital for the ongoing security and growth of our country.
Furthermore, monetarist economic policy has no business being used to run a national economy as it is demonstrably incompatible with how a national economy actually works: Keynes was right, Friedman was wrong!
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Michael Ratcliffe 3 weeks ago
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Amanda Harris 3 weeks ago
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Chris Symonds 3 weeks ago
All sensitive public services must not be in private hands and be subject to making profit.
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Irene Stephen-Jack 3 weeks ago
I am a member of the Labour Party. It is now high time to get back to proper Labour policies that support people and not profit. Let’s see you get on with it and bring it all back into public control,
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Peter Martin 3 weeks ago
We need to stop the ripoff that is “privatisation “
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Anthony Robson 3 weeks ago
The country had a last chance to make things right before we lose the fabric of what protects everything that we work for!
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June Gill 3 weeks ago
You are the Labour party’s best hope for a better future Andy.So many of us truly need your help as does the country. We have had too many leaders caught in the trap of self interest. Your leadership could be the thing that allows us to have control over our own destiny. I truly hope that you can push on and make it happen. The UK badly needs that to make us a proud nation again.
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Tracey N 3 weeks ago
The infrastructure is not working, shareholders are only interested in profits. There is no care or accountability in doing the right thing or best thing for the majority, if there is less profit to be made and I am totally fed up with it!
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Louise 3 weeks ago
Our water owned by profit making water companies and their abuse of it, has been a bad joke for too long. I am so surprised and hugely disappointed in the present Labour government not being more pro active in putting a stop to this. My local rivers are so dirty, there are no fish, several car tyres, bikes and plastic in there. Dogs and wildlife regularly become ill. Our guardians of it are failing .
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Jill Maben 3 weeks ago
Private funding has no place in the NHS, Palantir are bad news and we know private companies would love to get their hands on our NHS and are working behind the scenes to make sure the NHS fails do they can step in!
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Martyn Morris 3 weeks ago
Dear Andy,
Very happy to hear you are talking about reversing the privatisation put in place by the Thatcher government 40 years ago. It's madness and it must end. I'm looking forward to hearing more about moving back to public ownership in the coming weeks.
Martyn Morris
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Liz Edwards 3 weeks ago
I am a Green Party supporter.
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Ian Morris 3 weeks ago
ex - labour voter
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Mike Faulkner 3 weeks ago
let’s do it!
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Tricia Green 3 weeks ago
Privatisation has NOT worked. Our country is OWNED by foreign companies. You have the vision to change this
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james 3 weeks ago
Time to get Gerry the milkman from 1989 water Adverts back in his milk float,and take people Back on a joyess trip around the waterworks to say they are now back where they belong with THE PUBLIC THE PEOPLE.
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Rauf Karim 3 weeks ago
We need our public services back, especially Water, and the NHS which is being privatised by stealth.
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Trevor Miles 3 weeks ago
As you know, privatisation of public utilities has been catastrophic for the consumer, it's way beyond time to correct this. For the environment and for the consumer.
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Rauf 3 weeks ago
We need to stop the ripoff culture. Bring the Covid ppe thieves to justice. 12 billion stolen, zero arrests or charged.
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Louise Walker 3 weeks ago
We need full public ownership of all of our utilities as soon as possible. Keep private companies out of our NHS it is a treasure to ordinary people. We do not want any American pharmaceuticals taking profits from our illness. Get rid of Palantir and any other company of this type. Full public ownership is the only way to stop corporate greed.
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Alison Finch 3 weeks ago
Have voted Lib Dem, Green and Labour
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Marion Reeves 3 weeks ago
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Jimmy Ross 3 weeks ago
As member of the Labour Party I’m a passionate believer in keeping our services in the public sector,and would like to see more insourcing to the public sector.
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Liz Moylett 3 weeks ago
If Labour committed to public ownership you would win back my vote !
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D Burns 3 weeks ago
Don't be another starmer we need radical change to the system and we need to slow climate change. Listen to the people.
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Roger Wild 3 weeks ago
As a baby boomer I fell sad that many of my generation were bribed into supporting the sell off of our country’s essential utility companies.
It is some 35 or 40 years ago that commercials bombarded us with the message “Tell Sid…” it seemed a progressive idea to be part of the “Share ownership club” and make some easy cash! Then I recall as a new homeowner being given free shares in Water & Electric utilities, it all seemed to good to be true.
Well now we understand that the people owning our utilities I simply using it as a way to siphon out cash with no interest in providing long term services that our safe & fit for purpose.
Labour would get my vote if you committed to the action proposed in this letter. It’s time to take back public control of UK utilities.
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Anne Dicks 3 weeks ago
I normally vote Lib Dem but it depends on the candidate and I did vote Labour the time before last.
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Lisa Baba 3 weeks ago
I’m not affiliated to any political party as none have proved they are fully committed to the people. You are the nation’s hope for a fairer Britain and one that makes us proud to say ‘we’re British!’.
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Maria Clayton 3 weeks ago
I’m hoping that all utilities into public ownership.
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Mia-Louise 3 weeks ago
Voting Green because they are the ONLY party that genuinely care about People, Places and animals.
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Virginia Levett 3 weeks ago
I am a Labour Party member who believes that public services should be owned by the public. I am particularly concerned about the PFI like public private partnerships in the NHS.
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Karen Smith 3 weeks ago
Vital services and utilities need taking out of the hands of private profit based ownership and returning to the people that use them using new models and new thinking to solve the problems that privatisation has caused.
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Maria Canals 3 weeks ago
Although in the last local elections I voted Green party, doesn't change the fact how I feel about disappointment and left down by politicians across the board! I'm an European citizen, who lives in England since 1986, this country has changed over the years; specially since Brexit, England, should never come out of the European Union,Also, public services, should not be privatise for profits of individuals? Instead, should go back to the general public ownership.
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Kevin Blenkinsopp 3 weeks ago
We need to regain control of all our public services that was given away by Tory governments. Foreign hedge funds should not reap the monetary rewards from what is essential to UK
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Robert Wood 3 weeks ago
Restore faith in polotics by acting on nationisation measures which are supported by a vast majority of people, e.g Water companies
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Christine Fensome 3 weeks ago
It simply not right that private profit enables the very rich to get richer while the majority of the public are getting poorer due to high bills, longer waiting for services mainly the NHS and tax the millionaires and billionaires properly taxed the same way I'm taxed on every penny of my income.
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Joseph Henry 3 weeks ago
Best of luck in any path you’re taking
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Chris Dewdney 3 weeks ago
I’m a life-long labour supporter and very disappointed with labour’s performance in government. Under Starmer some good progress has been made, but the party has failed to get the message across. The draining of labour support has been due to the fact that election promises have been broken. Why are our essential services used by private enterprise to generate profit for the few? Politics should be about policies, not personalities, but we need popular policies, like nationalisation. We elected labour to bring about change, to shift the balance in favour of working people. Public OWNERSHIP is a vital part of this process.
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Janet Fielding 3 weeks ago
I am a member of the Labour Party
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Eileen Dale 3 weeks ago
I am a member of the Labour Party. I believe that we the people need to feel that we have control of our public services so that we have pride in our country. This will increase social cohesion and perhaps even happiness, as well as personal and national security. Thank you for standing strong on these issues.
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John Keeble 3 weeks ago
Thatchers privatisation of gas/electricity/ sewage/water has and is currently a disaster! Let's get it back into public ownership.
John
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McGuire Edward 3 weeks ago
Public Services should belong to the people not foreign companies who are taking huge sums of money out of the UK. Any profits should go to the government
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Yvonne Gregory 3 weeks ago
Stop the stupidity of profit from our essentials
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Paul Davis 3 weeks ago
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Michael Collins 3 weeks ago
Fraternal greetings, Andy. As you rightly stated, we (GB)should not be tirannieke by big capital. If elected, I hope you will push for alternative economics to a system in decline and denial that cannot cater for the people's real needs and rebuild the country's social fabric and infrastructure eroded by half a century down the wrong road, as you also rightly state. We need a sovereign wealth fund for all our citizens not the filthy rich and PR to enable long term progressive strategies.
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Tony Adamson 3 weeks ago
public ownership now
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Bernard Endacott 3 weeks ago
The road net work should also be in public ownership we did not have pot holes before Margaret Thatcher did away, with council depots which looked after our roads and did work before they got into a bad state.p
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Helene Grygar 3 weeks ago
This is absolutely vital. I am now with LDs in W Oxon. I support Andy for PM. He is our last hope. I am 82 and I don't want to die under fascism.
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Patricia Jean Lee 3 weeks ago
No comment
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Gina Stone 3 weeks ago
Look after our NHS from greedy companies and this includes water industries as well.
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Helen Selwood 3 weeks ago
I've been voting Green although I used to vote Labour. I no longer felt that Labour was focused on the needs of ordinary people and the environment.
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Michael Hogg 3 weeks ago
I am hoping that Andy Burnham lives up to the long-awaited optimism about him hopefully taking over as PM, so many are eagerly anticipating!
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Clive Weir 3 weeks ago
It really is about time that the British people owned their own country and services.
Profit made from all our services should be ploughed back into those services not into the pockets of outrageously wealthy greedy people.
Nor should these executives be paid for overseeing this blatant plundering!
I do not have a political leaning, the best person should be in charge and the whole point of politics is to come to an agreement, surely.
Good luck
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Heather 3 weeks ago
Andy, please do right by the people & fight to put the money where it’s needed most to make services great again, save peoples lives, reinvest it rather than distribute to shareholders. It’s the only way things will improve. You can do this.
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Heather Phillips 3 weeks ago
I agree entirely with the comments of 38 degrees. It is time exploitation of the British public ended.
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Jill Rapoport 3 weeks ago
A Labour Government in power with a leadership determined to bring public services back into public ownership is the last chance the country has to turn things around and reduce poverty and deprivation. This could persuade the population to re-elect a Labour government.
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Tim isaac 3 weeks ago
Well said.
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David Symes 3 weeks ago
It is long overdue that we as a nation took back our public services from the hands of those who in the USA are now called "The Epstein class". Their plan was always to enrich themselves at the cost of the rest of us, and this needs to stop with immediate effect.
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Karen Evans 3 weeks ago
I would love to see a Priminister bring back the Great in Great Britain. I have always supported Labour but have become extremely disillusioned of late . Let's have a government who cares about society . Yours sincerely Karen Evans.
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Jane Sowler 3 weeks ago
I was a Labour member until Keir Starmer became leader but voted Green in the last council election being totally disillusioned with Labour policies.
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Sandra Abrams 3 weeks ago
Sick of water company monopolies ripping us off.
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Julia Bennett 3 weeks ago
I believe that the policies outlined in this letter will bring voters back to the Labour Party as well as being the best policies for future generations.
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Shelagh Brown 3 weeks ago
I am 66 and the devastation to this country has been throughout my adult life. Particularly started by Margaret Thatcher and continued by Tony Blaire and Osborne and Cameron with austerity causing such a fatal blow which has only been continued by this right wing Labour government . I voted Labour most of my life and I have moved to tactical voting . I am not happy voting Lib Dem after their atrocious pact with the Tories, but I have done this to keep out the Tories and Reform. At the moment it is the Greens who appeal to me. I don’t trust Labour anymore and their attacks on personal freedom to protest, the right to trial by jury is so shocking I do not have the words. Labour is paving the way for reform with its rhetoric and policies. You have lost the trust of so many. The banks have got rich after their collapse in 2008 brought about by their own greed. When will they pay and the people benefit ? The proof of the pudding is in the pudding. Oh yes and oust Palantir that should be at the top of your agenda. How far many have fallen into the quagmire of dirty politics.
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Don Goodman 3 weeks ago
All the best for election, Andy
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John Hardaker 3 weeks ago
We are receiving a 3rdcrate service for continued water pollution and poor mail service since privatisation.
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Ian Potts 3 weeks ago
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Barry Cumbers 3 weeks ago
Please act in the public interest and help restore faith in politicians
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Ian Kerry 3 weeks ago
Public ownership makes sense
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Margaret Westbrook 3 weeks ago
A chance to see whether Andy Burnham will promise real change
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John Hardaker 3 weeks ago
We are receiving a 3rd rate service for continued water pollution and poor mail service since privatisation.
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Deborah Bailey 3 weeks ago
Pick your fights carefully and show us the public you are not in the Westminster bubble at the mercy of lobbyists. Water first please…
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Heather Wetzel 3 weeks ago
AND please do replace current property taxes with LAND VALUE TAX to return land wealth to the public purse to maintain and improve all public services.
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Michael Mackie 3 weeks ago
Enough is enough
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Jo Benefield 3 weeks ago
Well done!
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Joan Ward 3 weeks ago
I support Andy Burnham and nationalisation of water.
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Stephen Lancashire 3 weeks ago
I remain (just) a Labour Party member but think you must gfo for ownership rather than control. I beleive it's a risk worth taking on the road to dealing with the scourge of inequality in the UK. Like Beveridge, please be a man with a clear plan
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Dorothy Graham 3 weeks ago
Normally a Conservative voter, I am more than disappointed with the behaviour of ALL politicians and parties. There appear to be few who put the public before their party and themselves. Honour has departed and money has taken over with the acceptance of gifts etc from dubious donors. I hope you will prove to be of a different ilk and a force for change.
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Scarlett Wettre 3 weeks ago
give us a real alternative and run your office with proper labour values that put people first.
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Teresa Mcgill 3 weeks ago
I do not support any parliamentary politucal party.
I am in favour of people power as demonstrated by WE OWN IT.
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Michael Laughton-Zimmerman 3 weeks ago
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
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Nicholas Johnson 3 weeks ago
Good luck in your by-election and leadership bid. I am a Labour supporter and have been disturbed by Keir Starmer's priorities- he is wasting money, energy and potentially lives by picking a fight with Vladimir Putin when he should be using our country's resources to benefit our people, and that includes nationalisation of amenities as mentioned in the letter. Please deliver for the British working class and help defeat Reform. Good luck!
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SUSAN JOHNSON 3 weeks ago
Please start with water
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Helen Dean 3 weeks ago
Privatisation of services and utilities has been a disaster for public with money siphoned into dividends whilst infrastructure crumbled and the companies wracked up massive debt, then to be bailed out by the public purse.
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Derek & Annie McNamara 3 weeks ago
We really hoped for you to win the leadership contest before. However, you appear to have done well in your Mayoral role in Manchester so we're rooting for you this time - hoping you can prioritize bringing the utilities back into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP, not just PUBLIC CONTROL. Good luck!!!
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Andy Jordan 3 weeks ago
Please go for public ownership. It’s best for the country.
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Alan Trewhela 3 weeks ago
Completely agree with this letter.
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Brian Steedman 3 weeks ago
I don't recall any mention of dealing with the privatisation of state schools which, because of 'academies' have produced huge disparities of income and performance. This might be a long-term project, but it id, even so, urgent.
A total end to PFI or a savage change to the 'licence to print money' philosophy underlining it.
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Wendy Goodman 3 weeks ago
Great, go for it!
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Chris Long 3 weeks ago
The privatisation of public services has clearly failed and it’s time for something different
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Jessica Upton 3 weeks ago
I used to be a Labour voter but at the last elections moved to the Greens because Labour seemed to have lost its values. Getting water returned to public ownership would be a great start in Labour regaining what people want from it.
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Derek & Annie McNamara 3 weeks ago
We had hoped that you would win the leadership contest the last time. However, your tenure as Mayor of Manchester, has demonstrated that you could prove to be a formidable candidate for the Makerfield by-election. If you succeed please push for Public Ownership of National Utilities & not just Public Control. Good luck & thank you!
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Lucy Lomas 3 weeks ago
I support the Green Party because they want to do this
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John Ridley 3 weeks ago
Even non-profits are as good with Govt supervision.
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Elizabeth Marks 3 weeks ago
Supporting We own its points. Let’s have public ownership not just control.
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Janet Simpson 3 weeks ago
Privatisation has not worked, they don’t put the customer first just profits. I always used to vote Labour but recently voted Green Party as I was finding we are generally worse off under them.
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Virginia Gruitt 3 weeks ago
No comments
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Ms Liz Thompson 3 weeks ago
Voting left wing in all local and national elections, but not a member of a Party. Socialist/anarchist, anti racist, anti transphobia. Age 77.
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Michael Dunne 3 weeks ago
Good luck
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Nicola Spanswick 3 weeks ago
No more conservative policies under the guise of labour
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Penelope Abraham 3 weeks ago
Dear Andy. It is so great that you are standing in the bye-election. A ray of hope in these dark times. I wish you all the best, and so hope you will be returning to Parliament on June 15. All good wishes from a former Camden councillor, and fan of yours! Penelope Abraham.
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Patricia Daly 3 weeks ago
Never allow control only
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Barry Nuthall 3 weeks ago
I have written many times to my MPs regarding the unacceptable actions of the private water, energy and Royal Mail. It is impossible for companies to act in the public interest. The water companies in particular have acted like cowboy builders; getting paid for the job, not doing it, then saying "If you want it done you'll have to pay more".
Pay and working conditions always get worse, and service to the paying customer comes a low third in priorities compared to bonuses and dividends.
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Rodney Stanford-Beale 3 weeks ago
As a Greater Manchester citizen, I am fully aware of, and grateful for, the BeeNetwork. As a Green voter who could easily switch back to voting Labour, I would be hugely pleased if the policy shifts referred to in this letter came to fruition. They are long overdue and would go a long way to undo the damage caused by Thatcher reforms.
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Carol Rafferty 3 weeks ago
I’m a Lib Dem but would defo vote for you
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Caroline Juler 3 weeks ago
How will you resist corporate lobbying?
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Gaby Topliss 3 weeks ago
This is long overdue. Let’s do it!
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Sam Hamilton 3 weeks ago
I’m a Labour voter but I’m losing hope with the current mediocrity. The alternative is far worse. Get in and redress the balance. For us all.
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Alexandra Siddiquey 3 weeks ago
Get it done
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chris 3 weeks ago
Go Andy ! ❤️
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Paul Jones 3 weeks ago
The Labour Party should be a party for the people and uphold Socialist values.
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Carolyn Jones 3 weeks ago
Please read these comments, and keep them inthegirefront of your campaign.
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Richard Mason 3 weeks ago
I am 67 years old and I have always voted Labour. However, I despair at the current lack of vision by the Labour government. Nothing seems to be happening to narrow the gap between rich and poor. We need someone with vision to change society - not just a bit of tinkering at the edges. Breakfast clubs in schools and free bus travel for kids in August are just tinkering. No company should be making profits out of vulnerable children and adults. Public services must be returned to public ownership.
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Kathy Welham 3 weeks ago
I support genuine public ownership in the hope of reducing the use of the abuses I see in politics and the ‘public’ sector. I am disgusted by, for example,the exploitation and theft of public money via the profiteering which is rife in politics. I see it everywhere, for example in the financial gain that is obviously made by pretty much all politicians. See the wealth of national and local politicians - eg Tony Blair, Marvin Rees and ALL the others - after their profitable spells in office. I think real, transparent public ownership would be a worthwhile goal and I’d vote for it though I don’t hold my breath.
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Carolyn Barnes 3 weeks ago
Longstanding Labour Party and Cooperative Party member, born and brought up in Bolton, now living in Southampton
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Michael Stevens 3 weeks ago
Don’t let us down like Starmer
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Fiona Glanville 3 weeks ago
I dont support any party anymore. None of them are to be trusted anymore.our political system needs a radical overhaul and the public needs someone they can trust to do whats best for this country & not themselves. I hope that you are that person.
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Steve Brown 3 weeks ago
Labour Party member since 1968
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Kathy Welham 3 weeks ago
I support public ownership of all public facilities and would vote for it.
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Robert Hallett 3 weeks ago
Privatisation has failed. Please commit to a phased return to public ownership of all our essential utilities and services.
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Roger Maddocks 3 weeks ago
Essential public services should be publicly owned for the public good. Profit has no place in the provision of essential services
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Steve Brown 3 weeks ago
Labour Party member since 1968
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Pat Durrant 3 weeks ago
We should not have to pay compensation to water companies if we nationalise. They have done a poor job and prioritised shareholders instead of the community. Any company doing such a bad job would be sacked without payment!
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Kathryn Hedigan 3 weeks ago
Deliver - please! Be the first politician in our generation to accomplish what they set to do.
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Chris Roberts 3 weeks ago
Andy Burnham, I have every faith in you to bring in real Labour values to the House of Commons.I was brought up in a Labour household. A stricken postwar government gave us the Health Service, and I think you're the person to bring back those objectives and values.
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Keren Betteley 3 weeks ago
I am naturally a labour supporter but feel they no longer represent working people and issues relating to those who are living fairly miserable lives due to lack of opportunity in their areas.More inclined to vote Green over recent years.
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Catherine Kenny 3 weeks ago
Hi Andy, I am a labour party member, but I am feeling politically hopeless. Labour no longer feels like it prioritises people over profit, if it ever did. Commiting to reversing the destruction to our services by privatisation would go some way to restoring faith in British politics.
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Stephen Hewlett. 3 weeks ago
I fully support this campaign!!!
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Angie McMullin 3 weeks ago
Nothing to add
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Anne Brown 3 weeks ago
Hi Andy, I'm a Labour voters. I am a retired teacher and my first protest March was was when I attended City of Birmingham College of Education. It was against Maggie Thatcher the Milk Snatcher.
When Labour won the last election I felt hopeful that our government would return to the traditional Labour policies of public ownership for theNHS,utilities, transport ,the enviroment
and education. I have been so disappointe in Sir Keir Starmr's leadership and policies or lack thereof. A Tory agenda. I have seriously been thinking about voting for the Greens.
Please be brave, return the ownership of our country to us the people and not big business and the wealthy who have no idea
or interest in how the majority of us live. They just want more money and power.
You have achieved so much in Manchester and shown that it can be done. Please do it for the whole country.
Best wishes, Anne Brown.
how normal people
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Chris Dommett 3 weeks ago
No more fines confiscate voting shares. Take over!
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Moyra O'Donnell 3 weeks ago
I would always go for pubic ownership.
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Jim Brennan 3 weeks ago
As a lifelong labour voter I have lived through the de-nationalisation of industry/services and witnessed with utter frustration the blatant profiteering of the private sector. My Thames Water bill has just gone up by £13 a month - if this was going to a utility run by the government for the good of the people and the environment it would feel like an investment in public infrastructure instead it feels like being mugged by capitalists!
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Dennis 3 weeks ago
We'd all breathe a lot easier if the public utilities were just that - publicly owned. As they used to be. I now support the Greens, but nationalisations from a party led by Andy B would go a long way in restoring my respect for the Labour Party. And just mayhbe, my votes!
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Suzy Mather 3 weeks ago
We, as a country, need sensible solutions. You seem to be a very sensible man.
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GURDEV KUNDI 3 weeks ago
Good luck Andy all the best
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Rebecca Gardner 3 weeks ago
Water is a precious resource that we are all custodians of. Such a precious resource should not be in the hands of the private sector who’s ultimate goal is profiteering to return money to their various stakeholders.
This is too important to dither over - save our waterways for all of nature to enjoy 🌍🌱🦦
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Maura Henry 3 weeks ago
Did not vote Labour for first time in local elections as government now too far to the right and not for working class people!
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“Mo” 3 weeks ago
VOTED FOR REFORM PARTY
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Roy Lightfoot 3 weeks ago
Lifelong unwavering Labour su
Porter. YL766847A
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Vivien Gayton 3 weeks ago
Andy we need to do more to stop benefit fraud. To much is being claimed that it wrong. We have people that generally need it.
Yes life can be hard but we need to go back to living on our means? Not inflating our income by taking people’s taxes. So people don’t work and don’t put into the system, but are quite happy to take free money. Hopefully we will have a government that will address this issue
Regard’s Mrs Gayton
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Julie Swift 3 weeks ago
Bringing things like water supplies and treatment back into public ownership is essential. Things that are needed by everyone who lives in our country shouldn’t be used as ways of earning money for shareholders. It is immoral to do this est given that there often isn’t the option to ‘shop arond’ to enable consumers to get the best price for services.
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Pattie Friend 3 weeks ago
Water is a fundamental need that we all have no choice but to pay the debts of those providing this service. It is vital that this is renationalised.
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Dr Leslie Lund 3 weeks ago
The public should collectively own our essential public resources!
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Abu Naser 3 weeks ago
Please don’t fail the country and its people like your predecessors. Make real change happen by uniting the people and stand against all injustices locally, nationally and internationally.
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Anne Miller 3 weeks ago
As a paid up member of the Green Party I voted tactically for Labour in the last election because I wanted to see real change, especially around water and other public utility ownership- please don’t disappoint me further but follow- up on your promise.
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Mary Birch 3 weeks ago
Please use your power to clean up our waterways and seas.x
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Sandra Mahoney 3 weeks ago
Water privatisation clearly hasn’t worked for us! Shareholders have siphoned off profits without investing in infrastructure. It needs to be taken back into public ownership and not for profit.
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Stuart Pink 3 weeks ago
I truly believe that Andy Burnham as PM asap represents the only hope we have to stand against the rise of fascism. The similarities with Hitler's rise to power are frighteningly real. Stuart Pink
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Alan Johnson 3 weeks ago
Bolton Green Party,
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Ruth Gill 3 weeks ago
Having only just watched the play/docusoap ‘Dirty Business’ we need our water companies sorting out now and taking back into public ownership. Any one in doubt download SAS ( surfers against sewage) Ap and look at our water pollution. This should be a government priority.
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Jane 3 weeks ago
Please win and put the Labour government back for the working class they have lost their way
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Olivia Agate 3 weeks ago
Profits for the people not just shareholders
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Diana Luther Powell 3 weeks ago
Hope you make it and help to make the Labour Party what it should be - and see off the dreaded Reform.
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Robert Grierson 3 weeks ago
We must move away from Thatchers dream.
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Andrew Bassam 3 weeks ago
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Sue Butters 3 weeks ago
I voted Labour at the last election but am massively disappointed at the lack of action re climate change and taking public ownership. We need a leader prepared to stand up for people and planet.
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Chris Bambrough 3 weeks ago
Water is a universal necessity & should NEVER have been put into private hands .
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Samantha Agnew 3 weeks ago
In agreement
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ELIZABETH ANN DEAN 3 weeks ago
NOTHING TO ADD
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Helen Dr Andrew 3 weeks ago
All rivers were public 400 years ago. We must take back what was ours and protect them from some who see only money when they look at water.
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Katherine Hudson 3 weeks ago
I was 100% against privatisation of public utilities during Thatcher's givernnent; one of the (many) reasons I didn't vote for her at the time. It was not beyond the wit of man to see how damaging this would be. No government since, including (sadly) the Labour Party has done anything to reverse this cynical action. Please do not lose your nerve Mr Burnham.
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Sharon Knight 3 weeks ago
I’m LD but think Keir Starmer has tackled a difficult job very well. Whilst I think he is slow on some things, I like his considered approach & am annoyed at the challenge to hisleadership. Whilst I think you would be an asset as an MP, I hope it would be to work with Starmer to introduce the changes outlined in the letter.
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Lyn Bliss 3 weeks ago
We need public ownership. privatisation has been a disaster
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Beryl Sharp 3 weeks ago
Good to know Andy Burnham has a chance at last
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Bob bantick 3 weeks ago
I also hope Andy will not get involved with the great reset 2030 and the world economy forum...Please give us back our Freedoms and free speech
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Belle Conduct 3 weeks ago
It will be costly for the public purse and an uphill battle with powerful entrenched bodies, but it can't be any worse than the current situation.It might even better a lot better in the long run even with inevitable built in inefficiencies of public ownership.At least profit will be ploughed back in,rather than given to private pockets
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T F Robinson 3 weeks ago
Wishing all support for Andy Burnham to become a strong and effective leader for public good, for universal good.
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Toni Glazzard 3 weeks ago
Dear Andy Burnham
I live in Bristol and am no longer a Labour member but I plan to come up to Makerfield to support you in your campaign. ( My son lives in Levenshulme so I will stay there.) Wishing you the very best of luck and hoping we can build a better future.
Toni Glazzard
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reinhard Huss 3 weeks ago
Private profits are a public cost!
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Beryl Sharp 3 weeks ago
I support Liberal Democrats
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Yvonne Francis 3 weeks ago
Hope you’re successful in everything for the sake of most of us amd the environment
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Richard Britton-Voss 3 weeks ago
I am a LibDem supporter but believe that you have the wisdom to ensure Labour delivers for all the people and not just a few
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Stuart Burnett 3 weeks ago
Water, Electricity, gas, the railways, the roads, the buses, the postal service and of course the National Health Service are just some of the services that need to be nationalised to help stop the wealth extraction by the City of London and other speculative investment operators. We are counting on you to give us back the stability we need to live health happy lives without fear of poverty, homelessness and disease. Don't let us down Andrew.
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Linda Dirir 3 weeks ago
I am a lifelong Labour supporter Andy . Please become our voice for Public Ownership.
Let’s reverse the horrors of the Thatcher years and take back our Utilities from Private Equity . They belong to us !
Best of luck in Makerfield ! My home town ……
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Geoff Williams 3 weeks ago
If you want to revive your party's hopes of returning to being a genuine mass party of the working class, public ownership of vital services is essential.
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Nicola Salmon 3 weeks ago
I am a Green Party member and would greatly appreciate clarity on you future policies and decisions in this area.
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Mary Wilkins 3 weeks ago
I’ve always been a Labour supporter but voted Green for the first time because their manifesto seemed more anti-privatisation and pro public ownership. I think you have an opportunity to reshape the Labour Party in a socialist direction if you win, and to make he case for public ownership while campaigning. We know the resonance of the slogan “Take Back Control”. Let’s make that mean something positive! We can offer the UK public meaningful control of their lives through accountable public ownership of utilities and essential services.
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Sheila Dixon 3 weeks ago
YourParty. If you eventually become PM please support Jeremy Corbyn and eschew Farage. Thankyou.
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Simon Cardy 3 weeks ago
The notion that costs of bringing the utilities into public ownership based on 'regulatory capital value' must be seriously challenged. At best compensation should be based on the initial investment but better none at all when based for harm they left: debt,lack of investment and pollution.
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Steve Rogers 3 weeks ago
I'm currently a floating socialist voter after Labour's disgraceful plot against Jeremy Corbyn. I tend to vote Lib Dem these days. But I'm completely in favour of fully funded public services including health, dentistry, public transport, generous disability support and basic income. Also in favour of rebuilding Britain's relationship with the EU, which will need education and reining in of the dishonesty of the populist Press, until we can rejoin, retaking our proper place in the world.
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PETER WILLIAMS 3 weeks ago
PLEASE do something if given the chance. Britain deserves anything besides REFORM !
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Thelma 3 weeks ago
All public services/utilities should be able to be paid via the Bills of Exchange Act 1882, where the signature is equal to cash; also known as Acceptance for Value. The people should not have to pay from their small private pensions or wages. Good Success to you!
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Sara Magness 3 weeks ago
I'm a former member of the Labour Party and now a member of the Green Party. It's nice to hear Andy Burnham talking about the failures of privatisation, but I need further convincing that he will actually stand for public ownership and actually differentiate himself from the current watered-down, compromised state of the Labour Party. Nothing is going to change without someone standing up to corporate greed and delivering radical action.
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phil yorke 3 weeks ago
Keep your word
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Kevin Williams 3 weeks ago
Can you reassure supporters of public ownership that you will prioritise people over private corporate interests?
Would you be willing to meet with campaigners and trade unionists to discuss a long-term programme of democratic public ownership?
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Sue Vaughan 3 weeks ago
We know private companies have different objectives other than serving the public. We need our essential services back in the public sector.
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Garry Whannel 3 weeks ago
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D S Mthimkulu 3 weeks ago
It's time we had a proper Labour Government and Leadership who actually are for the people not the 1%! Will you step up and deliver this Andy?
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Anthony Huskisson 3 weeks ago
I hope that Andy becomes PM as I feel that the government is not seriously committed to protecting vital services from the profiteering private sector.
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Peter Musgrave 3 weeks ago
We really wish to see action in this by citizens and politicains like yourself. Thanks for speaking out about it
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Michael Juniper 3 weeks ago
I have voted labour and other progressive parties.
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Andrew Reeve 3 weeks ago
Longtime Labour member who is now Green.
Remember that the state owns the Bank of England and so can in effect pay for anything with interest free loans which never actually need to be paid back! Don’t be a Thatcherite Neoliberal.
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Brian Salisbury 3 weeks ago
Past member of the Labour Party
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Jinny Fisher 3 weeks ago
No weasel words,Andy!
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Ron Hunt 3 weeks ago
Well done the we own it team.
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Liz Elmhirst 3 weeks ago
I voted Labour at the last election but am worried by having yet another Prime Minister too soon. My instinct is to support Kier Starmer. However I would like to know how you would deal with all these issues.
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Patricia Compton 3 weeks ago
You are our last hope Andy. Please don’t let us down.
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Peter Fifield 3 weeks ago
Public ownership is the right policy for all basic services.
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Katharine Bligh 3 weeks ago
Privatisation has long ago proved to be a horrific failure endangering people's health and lives and endangering the planet, all for profit, profit and yet more profit.
It has to stop NOW.
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Drew Wilson 3 weeks ago
This is crucially important.
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James Rees 3 weeks ago
I would fully support public ownership.
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Kim Farrelly 3 weeks ago
Please don’t do a Starmer and renege on promises and positions you adopt, once elected.
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Maggie Cooke 3 weeks ago
Give the people a decent life,
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Martin kemp 3 weeks ago
This is so important for all the right reasons
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Robert Kirby 3 weeks ago
As it should be!
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Philomena Bullock 3 weeks ago
If they private companies came back in to public ownership the profits made would be able to pay for all works needed. They would also be able to set people working and bring down prices and tax bills. As they money left over for repairs etc could be brought into the treasury. To cut taxes on the working man and bring down the cost of living
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Lorraine Smith 3 weeks ago
Go on ANDY SHOW THEM HOW TO DO IT!!!
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Bob Hodges 3 weeks ago
For people not profit
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Amanda Kusmidrowicz 3 weeks ago
Please bring our public services into public ownership
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Nick Mays 3 weeks ago
Please Mr Burnham - DO this! The country needs proper change, not tinkering at the edges and keeping billionaires happy. And please commit to PR for the next General Election.
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Janine Timmis 3 weeks ago
Services are not all about profits
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Julia Reason 3 weeks ago
A Labour voter all my life, I gave up my Party membership after the arrests of the peaceful demonstrators against the genocide in Gaza.These people are not terrorists but caring human beings, and their treatment and the insane amount of police resources involved disgusted me. I was particularly horrified that this was happening under the watch of a former Human Rights Lawyer. We need to get back to Labour fundamental values.
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Markus Michelucci 3 weeks ago
This is a big moment for you to do some good Andy. I hope we can count on you. Markus - Green Party
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Benedict A O'Sullivan 3 weeks ago
I am not a supporter of any particular political party
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Kirsty Holyer 3 weeks ago
Life essentials should not and should have never have been for profit. I currently support the Green Party.
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Alison Leeper 3 weeks ago
Whilst I always vote labour I do not believe that to change leader mid term is a good idea and smacks of personal ambition over the best interests of governing.
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Caroline Brice 3 weeks ago
The rich have made lots of money from these privatisations giving these resources to the wealthy was theft
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David Pigg 3 weeks ago
Dear Andy,
You are my last hope for having a government that does represent the interests of the British people. Otherwise I will just stop voting completely for the remainder of my life.
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Jean Golding 3 weeks ago
Public ownership is the only way forward.
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Howard Jones 3 weeks ago
Public ownership of essential services is long overdue, so let’s do this!
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Peter Wright 3 weeks ago
Essential public services should be taken back into public ownership.
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Penelope Abraham 3 weeks ago
DearAndy, I am a former Labour councillor in Camden, and remain a solid Labour supporter, active in my local Hackney branch of Hoxton West.
I have long admired you, and so glad that you are standing in Makerfield. I wish you the very best of luck in the coming tough three weeks. We need you as MP and then Leader.
All the best. Penelope Abraham (now aged 77)
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Michael Robbins 3 weeks ago
Andy, when you get into post, please , please, please add rejoining Europe as one of your projects. Thank you
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Katherine Martin 3 weeks ago
I am a Labour Party member.
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Jess Burrows 3 weeks ago
I’m a Green Party member, signing because I’ve seen first‑hand how outsourcing and private profit harm essential services, especially in social care. This isn’t a party‑political issue — it’s about dignity, accountability and making sure public money serves the public. I’m glad to stand with others across parties on this.
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Kathryn Kelly 3 weeks ago
Keep the pressure on
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Anthony Lavender 3 weeks ago
No comment
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Elizabeth Burton 3 weeks ago
This is a great opportunity for you to return the Labour Party to its original values and be bold. Please do not throw it away.
I am a lifelong Labour supporter however have recently voted green as they are much stronger on public services
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Terry Knight 3 weeks ago
Got the book 'Head North' by Andy and his friend, Mayor of Liverpool Steve Rotherham - public ownership is the only option, in my book
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Heather Thrussell. 3 weeks ago
The troble is Andy I fear thet that you will do what Starmer did before coming to power. Promise so much then scrap it all when elected. You'll have to have a more detailed plan for me to trust you
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Alan Bruckman 3 weeks ago
Our sell off of public owned utilities should never have been sold off to just a few people with money and it’s always been that shareholders are put first and all shareholders should be made aware that they have to give up there shares and all utilities brought back into public ownership as it once was
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James Gibson 3 weeks ago
Public services should remain forever in public hands and run for the benefit of the customers they serve and the staff who work for them. Any excess profits should be used for the benefit of the entire country.
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David Duckworth 3 weeks ago
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Fiona Edwards 3 weeks ago
I loved living & working in England, but since returning to Scotland 15 years ago I have seen how differently things are moving in Scotland. Our Government actively tries to help people and us committed to making people's lives better. I've just joined the SNP and am dedicating. I think that you genuinely want to take the Labour party away from it's current direction of travel. That would be great. If the politucal machine had not demonised Jeremy Corbyn I honestly think the UK would be a better, fairer, more socialit place and the peoples of the Celtic Nation States would not be so keen to break away. Please try and advocate for an EU-like group of UK Nation States, sharing common pan-UK institutions where practicably possible, NICE, DVLA, Passport Office, Patent Office, along with EU-like rights to travel, study and work within the new-independent union of UK states. Wuth a,single strike you de-fuse the ultra-riggt wing by giving them their ultimate dream - an independent England. I realky think you have earned the trust of Manchester. Start as you mean to go on. Don't blow it like Blair & his cronies ever after by doing dodgy deals, palling up to donors, accepting gifts - we the people have had enough.
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Liliane Tilley 3 weeks ago
I think the ownership of public services is the most important issue right now, as we need to take control of those services for the benefit of the general public. Since Brexit, the UK public has lost the right to determine what is important to them, and has largely had to accept whatever happens.
One good example of this is Thames Water dumping sewage into the sea, polluting the waters where people swim and causing many people to become sick, some seriously so.
The declining quality of drinking water is also weakening people’s immune systems and putting further pressure on the NHS.
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Mary kerslake 3 weeks ago
Hope you win & we get a proper Labour person in control of this country.
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Banash 3 weeks ago
I hope your demand to be successful
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Marion Finnecy 3 weeks ago
Please listen to what the people want instead of failing like Starmer
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Noel Mccartney 3 weeks ago
Very happy to endorse this
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Tracy Birrell 3 weeks ago
Humans are vermin.
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Peter Owen 3 weeks ago
hello Andy im a labour member and agree with you that more utilities should be renationalised
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Martha E Scally 3 weeks ago
We put you in power not the millionaires, the multimillionaire or the billionaires. Listen to the people not the stick markets not the bond markets the people WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!
Stop blaming immigration, stop blaming the wars that you support in arms deals, stop blaming the poor and take responsibility and accountability . What you are not changing you are choosing !
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David Hughes 3 weeks ago
Please get the Markets out of these essential services wich in the hands of corporates have been sucked dry ,and in a terrible mess.It has also crucified customers finacialy and is bringing this Country.uk to its knees.
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Angie Lewis 3 weeks ago
Hopefully a politician who listens to people
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Graeme Edminson 3 weeks ago
Dear Andy,
I absolutely agree with your stance that Britain has been failed with the recent polital decision making. Labour had an opening at the last election to make a generational switch, but bad decision making, poor communications has left most people looking at Labour as continuing the status quo. If you were to push ahead with your vision and commitment to public ownership of essential services, that would tip the balance for me to switch from Greens back to Labour. I'm absolutely devastated that Reform now controls my local council (Sunderland), Labour needs to set out a vision and a plan to get there, otherwise populist parties will tear apart this country.
Regards
Graeme Edminson
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Mary Purser 3 weeks ago
It’ll be a long haul to bring rivers back to life and make beaches safe for swimming and playing. But it must be done. Shareholders who have hugely profited from the present system could be taxed to help fund the work needed.
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Carol Hunt 3 weeks ago
Privatisation has bought standards down . We need desperately to put it back into public ownership
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Caspar Williams 3 weeks ago
Dear Mr Burnham -
You have a chance to do lasting good by renationalising industries and utilities that have been exploited by their private owners. Please go for it. If you do a Starmer, and promise - or seem to promise - public ownership and then drop that promise like a hot turd as soon as you get into power, the electorate will swiftly give you the punishment you deserve. Have a think.
Regards,
C Williams
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Susan Haynes 3 weeks ago
The utilities should never have been sold.
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Raymond. English 3 weeks ago
Please keep safe and well
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raymond english 3 weeks ago
Please keep safe and well.
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Janet Dinsmore 3 weeks ago
I think Andy Barnham would do a fantastic job.
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David Barnett 3 weeks ago
Very important policy
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David Williamson 3 weeks ago
Water and energy - everyday necessities that shouldn't be used to help the rich get richer!
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Phil Morrison 3 weeks ago
We need these services to be run by the country for the country. Let's do this as a proper Labour policy.
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Susan Francis 3 weeks ago
I support the Green Party. I don't trust Labour under its current leadership; perhaps you could change that. The only thing on that list that I don't want to see entirely renationalised is the energy sector, because some of the smaller companies have USPs such as being entirely renewable, or providing social value to their local customers. There should definitely be a public retail option, though.
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Jennifer Johnson 3 weeks ago
Dear Andy,
You may be holding our future in your hands. It's a huge responsibility. Please explain to Makerfield constituents that joining the EU will give them a fairer, more hopeful and prosperous future. Tell them it was decades of bad British governments that put the South first. It wasn't the EU that left the North to rot. Tell them Reform will tie us to Trump, and sever us from Europe forever - and that will destroy our economy, our freedoms and rights, and our democratic way of life. Tell them, the only way to stop Trump controlling all of us, via his proxy crypto-millionaire Farage, is to join the EU. It's never been more necessary or more urgent.
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Jeffrey Gear 3 weeks ago
Keep the faith Andy Burnham
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Maria Pechnig 3 weeks ago
The NHS was the best health service in the world before privatisation, and so was education. We need to get back to serving the people and not profiteering share holders.
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John Drowley 3 weeks ago
You know it makes sense and is the right thing to do.
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Jane Hobson 3 weeks ago
I support public ownership of essential services!
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Philip Hegarty 3 weeks ago
Yes!
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Craig Cunningham 3 weeks ago
I am in favour of public ownership.
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Craig J 3 weeks ago
I firmly support public ownership!
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Peter Freeman 3 weeks ago
It’s about time someone other than me acknowledges what Thatcher did to this country
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Lloyd North 3 weeks ago
My usual Green vote would go to a Labour party which once again embraced socialism and equality.
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Michael Rozdoba 3 weeks ago
The poison of neoliberalism & the tendency to other, then exploit/abuse that which is so othered, be it people, non-human life &/or environment, lies behind the global human induced polycrisis of climate change, biodiversity collapse & societal upheaval. Changing our collective heading in this respect is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.
We choose our actions, reality chooses the consequences. Reality does not pander to delusion or bend to propaganda. Delusion is anathema to life, of which we are but an interdependent part within a complex web of relationships.
The neoliberal dynamic is essentially unsustainable cannibalism; greed & short-sightedness, in conjunction with our proliferation & reach through tool usage (aka tech) has now taken us to the point where this is turning inwards & we are consuming ourselves in pursuit of the delusion that exponential growth at all costs is healthy, causing the entire system to break down as sickness & dysfunction spreads.
The incessant mantra to deregulate is a recipe for suicide. Dysregulated growth in the biological world has a name - we call it cancer. Spoiler alert: without intervention it doesn't end well for the host or indeed the cancer itself.
The status quo is not sustainable irrespective of how great a tantrum big money throws. The freedoms those entities seek (the ones not compatible with democracy) are the freedoms to abuse & destroy - the freedom to bring death to all they touch, including themselves. True freedom requires we put aside childish demands & recognise responsibility & freedom are inseparable twins. Only by accepting responsibility for the consequences of our actions - all of them, on all timescales, & however inconvenient - can we realise our collective potential & take humanity out of adolescence into adulthood.
To the extent there is truth in this narrative, I hope you can see that truth. And I hope you have the vision & courage to help the UK play its part in a healthy change of course. I wish you well. Blessed be.
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Philip Rogers 3 weeks ago
Please consider...
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Anthony Shawcross 3 weeks ago
Take our Crown Jewels back electric gas water but I don’t trust Burnham or Starmer
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Alyson Claffey 3 weeks ago
I believe you will have a very hard job trying to appease the population after the mess that has already been made by your Labour forebears!
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Beth Armstrong 3 weeks ago
Great letter
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Rachael Milnes 3 weeks ago
I have always voted Labour but I have felt so disillusioned with the direction of the Labour Party and the infiltration from the Right. I would love to see the Rationalisation of all public services, however, this will cost an enormous amount of money. What can be done to prevent the services being sold off once again? My concern being, as what always happens, the private sector gains a fantastic new service at the cost to ordinary people. Can some kind of legal order be made that prevents ‘our’ services being sold off, if the Tories get back in?
I wish you well in the by-election and I sincerely hope you will become leader of the party.
Many thanks
Rachael
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Christine Foulsham 3 weeks ago
I believe governments should not have the power to sell off infrastructure unless by referendum, what right I’d like to know does any government have to sell off taxpayer owned land or infrastructure, especially as our antiquated voting system does not give all voters a meaningful say.
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Ann Batten 3 weeks ago
Good luck in your endeavours to give us all a better future with more opportunities and peace of mind
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Ali Thurm 3 weeks ago
I’m a member of the Green Party but have faith that if successful you would be a powerful voice for bringing our services into public ownership.
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Paul Trees 3 weeks ago
Please don’t fail the people!
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Frances Ashling 3 weeks ago
Thrilled to think you are of a similar mind set to mine and look forward to many more sensible changes to our current regulations.
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Shaun Hughes 3 weeks ago
Nationalise not nationalism!
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Celya Maxted 3 weeks ago
Stop giving to greedy shareholders, terrible state of our utilities
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Barrie hendry 3 weeks ago
I would have been more comfortable signing this if Andy had really acheived public ownership of Manchester buses. I believe the buses are still in private ownership even if they are under public control
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Celya Maxted 3 weeks ago
Very much support public ownership for utilities and rail, subject to effective structuring in place to manage
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Daniel buckley 3 weeks ago
Hope Andy Burnham can get elected back into parliament and get us back to what the Labour Party stands for good luck
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Tom Hanley 3 weeks ago
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IS PREREQUISITE FOR REAL CHANGE ‼️
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Mari Martin 3 weeks ago
Thank you.
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Catherine 3 weeks ago
Agree with all the comments
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Robert Kelly 3 weeks ago
Yes essential services should be owned by our country not for shareholders profits but reinvest profits for the good of the country.
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John Doyle 3 weeks ago
Can you be trusted to do the right thing? Can you convince me that what you say is more than just about you being elected?
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Marie Carroll 3 weeks ago
Please work to address the hugh gap between the rich and the poor that has grown in the
Country over recent years.
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C Walker 3 weeks ago
National.lly owned water and rail
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Eric Hill 3 weeks ago
Good luck Andy 🤞
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jennifer walsh 3 weeks ago
I would be happy to see you as the next prime minister - good luck
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Martin Craig 3 weeks ago
I think anyone challenging for the Labour leadership is wrong, the msm have been out for Keir Starmer from day one of him being PM, Reform are treating the local elections like a general election and grandstanding about Mandelson, Keir should stay as PM, he is doing a good job but there is a smear campaign against him, as there will be no matter who is the Labour leader, its deflecting from Farage and his shenanigans, why isn’t he being investigated?
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Rowena 3 weeks ago
I live in Wales and have just voted Green as I wanted to support our candidate and it was a dead cert that Plaid Cymru would win and they did.
But I have previously voted Labour and Lib Dem before they became a no go.
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Gill Gibbins 3 weeks ago
Dear Mr Burnham,
Public ownership, not public control, is what the majority of people in the UK want - national assets should never be in private or foreign ownership, one of the basic laws of any responsible nation. The people of this country have come a long way last under this government and under the previous one - now is the time to do right.
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Elaine Chapman 3 weeks ago
You have made a great difference to the transport in Greater Manchester - the Bee Network is a great success. If you are elected as MP please continue to fight for public ownership of our services.
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Carol Marshall 3 weeks ago
I’m hoping that you can make a change to the Labour Party, you have done so much good for Manchester I’m sure that you would be positive for Labour. I’ve voted Conservative and Labour in the past.
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Frances pickles 3 weeks ago
Should be in public ownership
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Elaine Chapman 3 weeks ago
You have already made a positive contribution to improving transport in Greater Manchester - the Bee Network has been a great success. If you are elected as an MP please continue to fight for public ownership of our services
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Nigel Cartwright 3 weeks ago
The very best of luck Andy on your Makerfield bi-election!.
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Julia Colling 3 weeks ago
Public utilities should be in public ownership
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Richard John Cowie 3 weeks ago
The necessities of life should be in the hands of the people rather than hedge fund billionaires
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Celia Collett 3 weeks ago
As I am in the autumn of my life, I don't want to die knowing that when the opportunity arose we didn't take the opportunity to take back our essential services into public ownership. If we do it will start to stop the super rich taking full charge of our lives and bleeding us dry.
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Bridget Hall 3 weeks ago
Hi! I support you in your aim to be elected as an MP and ultimately to become PM. I feel that Keir Starmer no longer represents Labour voters - if he ever did!
I'd urge you to develop your support for public control of national industries to you calling and working for public *ownership* of these industries. This is the best way to ensure public control and for the country to benefit from both the services and rewards of these national treasures.
Many blessings
Bridget Hall
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Mr D Fulcher 3 weeks ago
Any help will always be appreciated.
Everyone should support this action.
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Julie Pugh 3 weeks ago
I love your ideas about public ownership too many shareholders have benefitted from our assets and when you look at other countries you realise how far we have fallen behind which makes me ashamed. Please make a difference Andy
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Jenefer Sargent 3 weeks ago
I have voted Labour for many years but cannot vote for my local MP should he stand again as he has not answered my concerns about Thames Water sufficiently robustly (or at all) for me to trust him. I vote Green in local elections. Current Labour government is a disappointment. Would never vote Tory or Reform
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Leda Prest 3 weeks ago
Water, utilities, rail, public transport should not be cash cows for foreign investment.
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Mary Keenan 3 weeks ago
I am also interested in prescription pharmaceuticals and why NHS pharmacies cannot get some of them, e.g. Teva Bisoprolol, from wholesalers who actually have them in stock. Wholesalers charge far more than the Government allows NHS pharmacies to buy, e.g. Gov. reimbursement of a pack of 28 Bisoprolol 1.25mg tablets to pharmacies (according to AI) is £4.79; and 2.5 mg is £0.60. However, the wholesalers charge £9 (so I have been told by my pharmacist).
There is great difficulty in getting these tablets even when they are fully in stock at the wholesalers. The system needs looking at. I have been told that pharmacies are going out of business due to it, and some pharmacies won't get the tablets in because of it, and doctors tell patients to search for a pharmacy, in a broad radius from home, that does have the tablets. Why are wholesalers allowed to charge so much when Government reimburses so little? The people who need the tablets are the ones suffering the most.
Who is actually running this country - the Government or Big Business?
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Patricia langton 3 weeks ago
I fully support all the well argues points in this submission.
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Serpil Thesiger 3 weeks ago
Public ownership is one of the deciding factors for me choose the party/person(s) I might vote for.
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Rowena Godfrey 3 weeks ago
Want to see public services returned to public ownership. Doesn't make sense to let big business make enormous profits from services that are needed by everyone.I want to live in a fair and civilised society which cares for all its members. Our taxes should be progressive.ie. the wealthy pay more.
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Rosalind Enid Vernon 3 weeks ago
Looking forward to having a true socialist prime minister.
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Douglas Williamson 3 weeks ago
I watched the TV documentary "Dirty Business" and I've been listening to Radio 4's "Rinsed" about the water industry. The private water companies are akin to organised criminal enterprises, aided and abetted by the environment agency. How do they get away with it? I would be very happy to pay more for water and sewage treatment provided my money was going to clean up the sea and rivers and not enrich foreign shareholders. By the way, I'm a Liberal Democrat town councillor in Oxfordshire.
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marlee fletcher 3 weeks ago
Please end private finance of our utilities and institutions and return to public ownership. We need a better service for the people, not the shareholders who have failed to invest into the upkeep of these companies.
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Cat mills 3 weeks ago
I voted green in the last election but I would absolutely shift to labour given a reversal of the proscription of Palestine action, and a strong move towards public ownership
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Ray Murphy 3 weeks ago
As a socialist, I have always thought that privatisation of National institutions was wrong and would welcome every attempt to bring water, steel and the railways back under government control. If we could get the Royal Mail back and make sure the NHS stays out of private hands, even better.
Good luck with your campaign.
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Jane Bateman 3 weeks ago
I fully support nationalisation of key services, ie water, housing, energy, public transport. Privatisation has been a disaster for all of them.
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Rob Traynor-Herenda 3 weeks ago
I am a Labour supporter but have been disappointed that it hasn't done more in the near two years since the election. We can’t expect miracles, but if you can become PM I believe we can move in the right direction. Be brave, Labour has a big majority and let's face it, the Tories have done extreme right wing things with much less. Make hay while we're in government!
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Jill Adams 3 weeks ago
We have every hope that you will enable us to rejoin the EU asap and wish that we had someone in Birmingham who would do for us what you have done for Manchester.
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Sally Hobson 3 weeks ago
Renationalisation of water must be top priority and urgent. It should never have been privatised as it directly relates to public health as the old Sanitary Board s. knew in combatting cholera. All the other points are also essential and I would add a promise stop digital ID, facial recognition cameras everywhere and mandatory programmable Central Bank Digital Currency. At present I am not a member of any political party because I have lost all faith in them all.
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Valerie Evans 3 weeks ago
Hope Andy gets in and takes up all your campaigns listed in the open letter. Well done for such detailed research
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David McKiernan 3 weeks ago
Finally a representative for the working and middle-classes. It’s about time care homes, public transport, energy provision and the NHS were taken back into public ownership. The minority have had it too good for too long, at the expense of the majority.
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Mr andrew knight 3 weeks ago
Bring them back under public ownership not just control!
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Dan 3 weeks ago
All critical national infrastructure should be state owned, any profits reinvested in the infrastructure
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Brenda LeSeelleur 3 weeks ago
I wish it wasn't necessary to be writing to you regarding your proposed replacement for Starmer; I think he is better than the somewhat vitriolic comments indicate & has done better than many seem to think. He just hasn't been what people expected. I hope the election in & for Makerfield will yield the result you want, along with many others. I am with the LibDems but am sending all my support to you in this fairly turbulent time & pray that you won't be overwhelmed by the big names of the current times
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Charlotte Ates 3 weeks ago
Public ownership of essential public services is vital to the well being of us all - instead of private companies asset stripping and paying out huge dividends seemingly without penalty.
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Mary Keenan 3 weeks ago
I am also interested in prescription pharmaceuticals and why NHS pharmacies cannot get some of them, e.g. Teva Bisoprolol, from wholesalers who actually have them in stock. Wholesalers charge far more than the Government allows NHS pharmacies to buy, e.g. Gov. reimbursement of a pack of 28 Bisoprolol 1.25mg tablets to pharmacies (according to AI) is £4.79; and 2.5 mg is £0.60. However, the wholesalers charge £9 (so I have been told by my pharmacist).
There is great difficulty in getting these tablets even when they are fully in stock at the wholesalers. The system needs looking at. I have been told that pharmacies are going out of business due to it, and some pharmacies won't get the tablets in because of it, and doctors tell patients to search for a pharmacy, in a broad radius from home, that does have the tablets. Why are wholesalers allowed to charge so much when Government reimburses so little? The people who need the tablets are the ones suffering the most.
Who is actually running this country - the Government or Big Business?
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Ria Patel 3 weeks ago
Green Party
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Barbara Dypoldt 3 weeks ago
Let's get it done!!
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Roy Shury 3 weeks ago
I live in Selsey, Chichester. Our water company Southern Water has been consistently discharging sewage and has been regularly fined for breaching their responsibilities. They pay lip service to the bill payers. They build the fines into their charges to maintain their profits. Ofwat is not fit for purpose. Shameful!!
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Samantha Smithson 3 weeks ago
Please do not renege on getting as many of our public services back into public ownership. No public service should be privatised, especially when the taxpayer has been funding it for years and then it's sold cheap format cars to get fatter!
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Lizzie James 3 weeks ago
I so hope you win a seat in the by election and I wish you all the best.
As a Labour party member I can't help feeling that Kier Starmer and some ministers seem unable to avoid repeatedly shooting themselves in both feet. I know this government inherited a sh*t-show, but serious mistakes have been made.
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Angie Bower 3 weeks ago
I feel politically homeless: I uaed to vote Labour but have been bitterly disappointed by their optics, their demonisation of legitimate concerns that people have about the swift changes in their localities and their contempt for ordinary working people by raising taxes in a cost of living crisis. Labour need to get a grip on the real priorities: energy, food and secure borders.
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Alison Baugh 3 weeks ago
Makes perfect sense
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Carole Meldrum 3 weeks ago
When billionaires from abroad own our industries they really don't care about about the service they give it's out of sight out of mind. As long as the money keeps rolling in they don't care.
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Pete Etheridge 3 weeks ago
I endorse your proposals
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Diana Barlow 3 weeks ago
Best of luck in Makerfield
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Stephanie Boyle 3 weeks ago
The people of this country deserve decent public services. Acknowledge that privatisation hasn't worked and use the profits siphoned off to improve services. Be brave and don't let big business put pressure on you.
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Glenn Power 3 weeks ago
Public control is a cop out. Only public ownership can stop profit extraction and needless debt costs
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Margaret Hobbs 3 weeks ago
I used to be a Labour Party member but currently belong to the Green Party. I would like very much to see a future Labour government supporting public ownership of public services. The ideology of privatisation supports capitalist moneymakers, encourages lobbying by companies motivated purely by profit, and has wreaked havoc with our public services.
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Adrian Malcolm 3 weeks ago
Bring it back to public ownership
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Milena 3 weeks ago
Save NHS and all lower bands we deserve better pay
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Ken Pickup 3 weeks ago
Living in Rochdale I am aware of the many problems associated with private ownership of the buses, particularly the 471 route.
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Ginny Helsen 3 weeks ago
We have all seen what has happened to public companies run by private companies. It’s devastating on several counts
1) the public suffer the brunt
2) the shareholders come first
3) lack of accountability
4) no reinforcement of rules
5) lack of necessary safeguards and adherence to them
6) they don’t run smoothly
7) wasting of money
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Anna Rhea 3 weeks ago
Every politician who has been elected as leader of a party has promised so much yet never delivers or does a complete U-turn. This country does not need another politician who serves foreign interests and/or corporate interests while increasing surveillance on us, stripping away our sovereignty privacy. Can you commit to finally being a leader who serves the people and their best interests and freedoms?
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Robert Gee 3 weeks ago
Please support this open letter to bring key services into Public ownership.
Thanks
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Colin Brown 3 weeks ago
Rail ownership can also learn from the ScotGov recovery of ScotRail into public ownership.
More strategically, it's time for a Labour politician to renounce the Bain Principle, and build the case for UK by enthusiastically adopting many of the progressive policies of ScotGov.
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Angela Friend 3 weeks ago
We should NEVER allow essential services to be privatized where profits are ALWAYS put before the welfare of the service. Should there be any profits, these should be ploughed back into the Company to improve its services. The thought that an essential service can be foreign-owned or even hi-jacked by a British fraudster is alarming as their allegiances will probably NOT be to the British consumer but to their shareholders, personal profits and/or an enemy of our country and people. My politics is left-leaning/socialist and Green and extremely fearful of the far-Right that is currently a real threat to humanity and our world.
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Jennifer Kidman 3 weeks ago
Having lived through the decades of catastrophic privatisation of our public services - water, energy, transport, the Royal Mail, care and, most shameful of all, the NHS, I have been heartened by statements you have made and actions you have taken. Please reflect on the policies advocated by We Own It and be bold.
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Stephen Atmore 3 weeks ago
Andy was a Blairite, backing the Iraq war and the starting gun for selling the NHS to American hedge funds.
So unless he’s had a complete political realignment he will operate exactly the same as Starmer has, obeying the corrupt right wing of Labour.
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Joan phillips 3 weeks ago
Andy Burnham has my vote always voted Labour
But what we have is they are a goverment that are not what Labour stand for so hope he pulls it together
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Mary Mc Neill 3 weeks ago
I support Andy Burnham and would urge him to clarify that he supports public ownership of our public services
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R Dowthwaite 3 weeks ago
It is my belief that British people learned very hard lessons after two dreadful and perhaps
unnecessary World Wars. It seems some people and, who could blame them given their dreadfully sad losses demanded a better deal. Hence we got the welfare state a good thing, but maybe now overused and abused by many more people than is ever admitted, at least by the authority's. Anyway Mrs Thatcher appeared to realise that big business and big finance was being invested in overseas cheap labour and much industry was moving overseas leaving a situation whereby both husband and wife would both be expected to go out and do forty hours each and earn what would hitherto have equalled one weekly wage. Leaving children to be looked after by whoever as if it had little importance. On top of this steelworkers, miners etc would now become shelf stackers or waiters. Then to really insult the working class the Governments all carried on bringing in cheap labour whilst the media is saying British people won't do these jobs. Maybe they would have if they were valued enough to be paid a proper wage. Then the very rich and powerful began to push the idea that the working people are all far right, racists, bigots, natzis or whatever could point away from the fact that it is the working peoples jobs that the rich have consistently undermined and, it was never the poor or working classes that ran the slave trade. The working class children as young as six used to be sent to the Botton of pit shafts while their elder brothers and sisters went beneath the sea to dig coal. It sickens me when I hear how Universities and schools are being allowed to brainwash our young people to think that everything in Britains past was bad. It wasn't ! We need to renationalise all that Mrs Thatcher privatised. Start educating our young people not the foreign competition. Stop those whose only care is their own wealth from wrecking our Nation. I have written this from my own thoughts, I had little education, worked helping on farms from age eight left school at fifteen brought up in extreme poverty and have had a lifetime doing the heaviest types of work for very little reward.
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David Smith 3 weeks ago
We have had over 40 years of failed privatisation! Thatchers dream has destroyed our, my country. We need to retrieve family values again!
Can you do all these things? Or at least make a start!
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Arthur Brown 3 weeks ago
Public service for all the people and not for some.
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Susan blyth 3 weeks ago
Bring essential services into Public ownership, help to stop greed and self interest in Water, Gas, Electric, Transport, NHS
Housing , Royal Mail. people before profit.
Thankyou
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Malcolm Lidbury 3 weeks ago
Used to be a Labour party member but when Kier Starmer asked people like me (state pensioner) to leave, then came after winter fuel allowance, PIP, & just keeps pandering & sucking up to parasitic royalty, billionaires, corporates & tax avoiders I've become a Green party voter/supporter
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Louise Macartney 3 weeks ago
We need proper redistribution of wealth in this country, and re nationalising utilities would be a good way to start addressing this.
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Barbara Davies 3 weeks ago
Andy Burnham has skills, knowledge and commitment in implementing the values of the Labour Party into reality.
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Sylvia Kelly 3 weeks ago
You should have been Labour leader years ago, maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.
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Barbara Davies 3 weeks ago
Andy Burnham has skills, knowledge and commitment in implementing the values of the Labour Party into reality.
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Tim Jessiman 3 weeks ago
I voted Labour last time, but I was expecting something different than more Conservative imitation. I think we need an old style Labour back so Public Ownership not just Public Contraol seems to be the way to go now that Privatisation has so obviously failed across the board. I look forward to your time as PM if you can deliver this. If not maybe I'll have to go for Angela.
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William collier 3 weeks ago
We need to re nationalise water trains electricity and gas or is all this so called policy just going to be another labour lie we need our rivers clean and our country strong
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Susan Scott 3 weeks ago
I believe that you will do in your power to make much needed improvements.
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Patricia Cooper 3 weeks ago
I’m with Andy
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Steven Weale 3 weeks ago
We need to stop private companies making huge profits from public services and making shareholders richer,when any profits should be reinvested in the community.
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Delya Randall 3 weeks ago
This needs to happen as soon as possible.
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David Morgan-Wynne 3 weeks ago
Hi - having read the We Own It letter, I am definitely in agreement with nearly everything it says, and hope you will be too. Not sure of the detail of notice periods for the rail franchises but three months does not sound long enough to be commercial, unless it applied to serious breaches. And serious breaches are certainly what our local water company, SWW, has committed. Good luck and please bring the water companies back into public ownership. As a water lover, swimmer and fisherman, what they are doing is outrageous and it must be stopped.
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Delya Randall 3 weeks ago
Please do this now.
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Elizabeth Coopey 3 weeks ago
Privatisation has made us all poorer, we should own our basic needs - water and energy
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Angela Shepherd 3 weeks ago
If you commit to public ownership of the NHS and utilities, I might vote for Labour again. This is not a Labour government, I left the party several years ago and as yet see no reason for return. Give me hope that we can get the Party back.
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Deirdre Hayward 3 weeks ago
I have always voted Labour but am disappointed with the current government. We need more focus on support for the lower paid such as increasing the personal tax allowance. I am a pensioner who didn't pay tax until the allowance was frozen but am now paying more each year. It must be hard for everyone on a lower income. Also what a waste of money the HS2 is. I've had experience of travelling from Leamington to London regularly to visit my daughter and the trains are always full and often people standing. All it needed was more carriages on the trains and good maintenance of the existing lines. I hope you will read this and consider my points.
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Fleur Kreel 3 weeks ago
Dear Andy Burnham,
I've been a lifelong Labour voter who has become very disappointed in the increasingly worsening performance of successive Labour party government and in opposition in the past years - basically since Gordon Brown resigned I've voted Labour tactically to keep out Reform and the Conservatives, rather than because I wanted to vote Labour. I'm particularly disappointed in Sir Keir Starmer/Rachel Reeves performance on so many issues there is no space for here except to say clarify the above open letter I've just signed that PUBLIC CONTROL IS NOT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP AND IS NOT AS GOOD AS PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
I hope you will be elected to Makerfield and then go on to succeed in a leadership challenge AND THEN DO THE RIGHT THING for the majority of people which include not only the traditional "working class" but the virtually extinct "middle class" in my lifetime / generation born 1960-1970 a few of whom have become "rich" in being able to afford what used to be the preserve of middle class - namely a modest lifestyle, home with garden and send their children to good local state schools ie not really "the rich" but you have to now be rich to afford that, and then the majority of middle class who are now poor (like me - single woman, state school and university educated no kids; paying out of net low income though not quite low enough for the various assistances or state benefits which I wouldn't want to have to rely on in any event, for private infrastructure investment and private debt of electricity and water companies which ought to be what our income tax with the relevant allowance threshold pay for; pension age goalpost changes not at the beginning of a working career applied to say those born in 10 year tranches 2000-2009; 2010-2019 etc as they do in Australia, but towards the end when it it's too late even with 8 or 10 years or much less to go to make appropriate allowance) or just clinging on or having to work all hours of the day and night to give their kids a good education due to the failed state school catchment system (insufficient
school places in good state schools within a catchment), which option for betterment is now removed, so that with VAT, private schools are now the preserve of the super rich elite with pupils thrown back onto a state system which won't be fixed for decades and won't be funded by the VAT changes because of all the people who will have to take their kids out of those schools because it is now completely unaffordable;
The retrospective effect of many changes brought in rather than applying to people not yet on a system - not only pension age increases but things like the 2-child benefit cap - I know Labour didn't bring it in and has now removed it but it ought never to have been introduce to apply to those already on the system - for example it could have been brought in perhaps more justly to apply only to those who conceive a 3rd child or more AFTER they're already on benefits. That would have brought it in line with the general population who have to moderate their family aspirations according to what they can afford. I use that and the pension age increases as examples only that laws ought not to be brought in which would have retrospective effect to existing scenarios which people rely on and which gives them certainty.
Another issue is inheritance tax - it is not only a double tax but it is also not a "wealth tax", applying as it does to estates worth more than £325K for single people who have no children but want to pass on to their family eg siblings or nephews or nieces. A wealth tax ought to apply to INCOME - such as 1% on the top 1% of INCOME earners.
then there is the environment and planning law changes which demonise ordinary people with valid objections as NIMBY in an already skewed system massively in favour of developers and licence applications, handing them a blank cheque for development - all to the detriment of the existing residential amenity as well as to what is left of our terribly depleted natural environment. I have it on good authority from a planning consultant that much of the housing problem is from developers sitting on approved applications out of greed.
Anyway, Andy Burnham I hope you get in at Makerfield and I hope you become Prime Minister and I hope you bring in real, visionary policies which make a difference to the majority by closing the disparity between the real rich versus the middle poor and poor and the terrible effect on our natural environment - rather listen to conservation groups about how to manage the housing crisis in a sustainable way and to provide quality amenity in housing - public and private - without destroying the existing amenity and what is left of our precious natural environment - which includes gardens threatened by over-building and light exclusion.
yours sincerely
Fleur Kreel
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Jackie Dine-Hart 3 weeks ago
I believe in Andy Burnham that he is an honourablr and straight politician
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Debs Miles 3 weeks ago
Please renationalise water and other utilities. I used to vote Labour and was a member but left when the party left me. I voted Green in the last general election and am likely to do so again unless Labour radically changes
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Roger Stone 3 weeks ago
Sadiq Khan, to his credit, has just called time on the Met's planned £50m contract with Panlantir. Peter Kyle has, in the same breath, condemned Khan's action and said he believes AI will deliver great things and we need more home grown AI companies in the UK!!! How does he think Palantir grew big? By using big US government contracts to develop their technology - how can he call for home grown technology and support big, publicly funded contracts going to rapacious foreign companies? I hope you will have the opportunity to take on this sort of nonsense too!
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Ian Minter 3 weeks ago
We have had too many years of politicians who say one thing but actually intend something else. To expect trust in future, politicians must be clear and very specific about their true intentions
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Kathy Ludbrook 3 weeks ago
As a member of the Labour Party since 1974, I'm still gutted that it dropped Clause 4. To become a sheep in wolf's clothing is not what I expected? Please support public ownership and help build public confidence in Labour’s election.
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Patricia Webb 3 weeks ago
Dear Andy Burnham I am really encouraged by your belief in public control of utilities and want to support the eventual development of public ownership as set out in this excellent letter by We Own It. I am an ex Labour member now supporting the Greens and wishing you well in the upcoming by-election.
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Jonathan Ranger 3 weeks ago
Please will you commit to positive long-term thinking and planning, no longer the usual short-term media-pleasing negativity we’ve suffered for too many years? And tell the media and public that this is what’s needed, and will be the real change everyone wants.
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jenniford 3 weeks ago
Good ideas!
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Jackie Fisher 3 weeks ago
I’m a member of ‘Your Party’
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George Gornall 3 weeks ago
We need public ownership of all the companies privatised by the Tory governments . It’s time to take back control and without compensation, they’ve had enough off the taxpayer for their offshore accounts. It’s time to do the right thing and bring them back into public control.
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Irene Payne 3 weeks ago
Still hanging on in the Labour Party!
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David Cassidy 3 weeks ago
I am a life long labour voter but I feel labour have lost touch with it's grass roots. There is a real likelihood that reform will grab the raynes of power at the next general election. Unless labour do something radical like put services back into the hands of the people I see no reason to support a party that just backs market control.
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Peter Johns 3 weeks ago
Listen to Feargal Sharkey. He’s been telling us how to do this for years
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C. M. Peregrine Morley 3 weeks ago
I am a Liberal Democrat
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Amanda Smith 3 weeks ago
Please stay true to labour values and prioritise public ownership for the benefit of all.
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A J LANGSHAW 3 weeks ago
Andy, These changes of ownership, require funding, could you tell, US ALL, where would that come from.
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jack Doran 3 weeks ago
As a lifelong labour supporter I am horrified at the lack of unity within the 400plus MPs and the waste of effort by Labour MPs by undertaking this intra party election with so much to do on the national scene
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Alan Thomson 3 weeks ago
Please don't forget about Northern Ireland, particularly in the context of energy security and the NI Assembly's lack of vision and focus.
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Praful Patel 3 weeks ago
Hi Andy. I normally support the Liberal Democratic Party but I wish you the best in your effort to return to Parliament. I am very disappointed with all the privatisation that has gone on in our country and the way even this labour government has been in the pockets of big business.
Praful
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Heather Vallely 3 weeks ago
The country needs you to succeed, Andy. Wishing you every success
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Roy Stoneham 3 weeks ago
the Water Companies seem to make enormous profits but when asked to improve the service they provide and stop polluting open water and rivers they always seem to avoid a significant change that will do just that which begs the further quation where does all that monet go.
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Mark Mawson 3 weeks ago
Democracy's return would be a welcome sight and mark the end of corrupt influence. Public ownership is a step in the right direction.
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Alexandra Farrow 3 weeks ago
I voted green in local elections and that is the first time since I was able to vote. I have always been a labour supporter and if the Labour Party can get back on track for the public sand not for private interests, I will vote Labour again. Let’s hope Andy Burnham can do it!!!!
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Hunter Smith 3 weeks ago
Hoping to live in a country that is run for and to benefit the population
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Lorna Burley 3 weeks ago
Please, please, please, win this bi election, maybe at last, an honest politician
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David Tarry 3 weeks ago
Much in favour of limiting the profiteers.
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Jan palmer. 3 weeks ago
Thank you for all the effort you put into what you do, to rally round and encourage people to rally around and support you. I have told lots of my family about the good you do (some are nurses, teachers even 2 doctors and a retired lecturer, also friend that I worked with before I retired as a Nurse. Unfortunately I I think all my preaching has fallen on deaf ears,
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Anne Sharp 3 weeks ago
As a very elderly lady who retired at 81 due
to a nasty fall and I worry non stop that the money I have worked hard for will be taken instead for my children will be spent on care of I no longer able to take care of myself.I support and hope your plans for the future will come true
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Elaine C Birch 3 weeks ago
Supported you on many campaigns over the years. I am a Labour supporter. Good luck !
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Joseph Bell 3 weeks ago
Foreign owners of public power and utilities only want the profits from them and disregard the infrastructure which they let deterioate about time all public amenities including railways return to full public ownership
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Jose Ponte 3 weeks ago
Suggest adding to the letter:
Investigate and bring to justice the pack of dishonest operators who were behind the purging of Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Loach and others from the Party, such as McSweeny, Barros-Curtis and others of the “Labour Together” gang.
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Sara Atkins 3 weeks ago
I’m a former NHS Blood and Transplant lab technician who had to retire after 33 years due to ill health. I could never understand why we charged the hospitals ( also NHS) for blood which had been freely DONATED by the public. I don’t vote for any particular party but according to their policies. I wish you well in your election campaign.
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philip Elstone 3 weeks ago
Bring the change you are promising and start bring things into public ownership do not promise and not deliver like Starmer
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Paramjit Singh Brar 2 weeks ago
It’s not a big ask to have public services back, it’s common sense. We have one the largest economies and 3rd world living standards and services. Polluted waterways, the trains are a joke, the NHS staffed by agencies, roads the look like they’ve been bombed. Middle management structures such as police commissioners with hugh budgets instead of police officers. We Are A Feast For Corporations And Billionaires. MY FAMILY HAS BEEN LABOUR ALL OUR LIVES BUT , LIKE MANY OTHERS, WILL VOTE UNITE UNLESS LABOUR CAN REMEMBER WHY IT WAS FORMED.
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Joan phillips 2 weeks ago
Andy put water gas electric make it cheaper for people to travel
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Sylvia wildsmith 2 weeks ago
This country needs a saviour.I hope it’s Andy
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Shary 2 weeks ago
We vote for whichever political party delivers public ownership of crucial services such as NHS, transport, water, energy... and supports peaceful foreign policy and end to wars.
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Lynda Wigfall 2 weeks ago
My dad was active in the Labour Party his whole life. I used to deliver leaflets for him as a teenager. I’ve also been a member and active until three years ago.
I live in Haringey and voted green in the last General Election and the recent local elections.
I left Labour because of Starmer’s right wing policies on privatising the NHS, academy schools, public/private housing, welfare, not renationalising energy, water, transport etc, immigration, Gaza, the list goes on. And on.
I want a socialist government and Starmer is not providing that. I don’t want my taxes to help fund a genocide. I’m very concerned about the influence of Israel in our democracy.
I don’t want to be in an authoritarian party that does not allow members to select their own local candidates. I’m appalled that long time members such as Ken Loach have been expelled and that Jeremy Corbyn was forced out.
I hope that if you were to become leader that you would listen to members and unite the party.
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Yvonne 2 weeks ago
So hope you can deliver if you’re elected.
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Helen Wood 2 weeks ago
Andy, while I don't think you should be causing a leadership election at all, I will welcome you back as an MP. Please support We Own It's manifesto list: as a former Labour voter not convinced by the Greens, I believe a government should stand up for the people, not the corporations, and no Party will win votes unless it is seen to improve the quality of life for people in this country. I would also suggest that creating a hostile environment for immigrants and refugees is the root source what enables people to express appalling racism in this country.
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Carol Oladipo 2 weeks ago
We are not here to make the USA richer!!
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Ron kulka 2 weeks ago
I supported the great socialist victory in 1945 and I have
Voted Labour ever since I have had the vote. Please take
us back to a place where people had a say in their one lives.
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Myra Berg 2 weeks ago
I am a member of Your Party which also believes strongly in public ownership of national resources and services.
This will hopefully end capitalist businesses ans shareholders making huge profits on natural resources and still greatly raising costs for consumers.
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Mary Orr 2 weeks ago
I am ashamed of the current Labour leadership
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Margaret Hardman 2 weeks ago
Andy, we need you in government again, when /if you get back into the Labour Party with this coming election you need to do for the country what you have done for Greater Manchester, it took time to take off, but you and your team managed it, please lets stop the in fighting within the Labour Party and make our country great again......(not to be confused with the American slogan for making their country great again !!)
I, like my Dad before me, have always voted Labour, I am one of Angela Rayner's constituents, and pleased to say so.
Good Luck Andy with your comeback xx
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Jeremy Hunt 2 weeks ago
And please stay firm on your environmental plans.
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Phil Smith 2 weeks ago
I will be voting Labour {as a non-party member} purely to keep Reform out. I am disgused by Starmer's actions to expel many decent socialists.
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Rose Robert 2 weeks ago
I will be extremely pleased if a) you win the Makerfield election b) and you eventually become prime minister. Please don't forget all of the above - I was a long term labour voter and voted labour in 2024, but wouldn't do so again if Kier Starmer was still PM. No offence to him - he's very intelligent but does not have the oomph that people look for,
My parents and uncles came to this country as refugees fron the Spanish civil war and were treated very well by the British people. I am hoping against hope that Farage never gets to a position of power in the UK, his attitude to immigrants among other things, makes my blood boil. Very best of luck in the byelection and in getting to be PM.
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Simon Ford 2 weeks ago
I think Clive Lewis would potentially be more in line with We Own It and would get my vote if he got on the ballot to be the next Labour leader and potential Prime Minister. Just like the ‘Block Bernie (Saunders), Clive wouldn’t be allowed to stand as his policies are more progressive and based in Socialism.
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melvyn dalley 2 weeks ago
Proper labour values
But scrap digital ID
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Paul Southam 2 weeks ago
No half measures! No sticking plaster solutions! Do the right thing! No appeasing the lobbyists!
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Catryn Ilett 2 weeks ago
Essential services need to be guaranteed to serve the well being of British residents not shareholders.
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Ann Jackson 2 weeks ago
Looking forward to you making this a better country
Good Luck
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J. MCDONALD 2 weeks ago
our services should be publicly owned.
it is common semse that if there are profits to be made they should go right back into the provision of the service... not into the pockets of shareholders who care for nothing but their own pockets.! I vote SNP and i live in scotland....i watched Thatcher do this to our nation we need to take back what was wrongfully stolen from us in the name of greed.! It is heartwarming that you might help in this worthy cause...thank you.
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Pauline Darley 2 weeks ago
Good luck!
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Julie myles 2 weeks ago
Get this water corruption sorted
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Kenrick Campbell 2 weeks ago
I have always been a staunch supporter of Andy Burnham, I'm thrilled to hear that he's interested in becoming the Labour Party leader. I was a Labour Party member and a member of unison for many years, when Kier Starmer decided that Jeremy Corbyn couldn't run as a Labour Party member in the general election, I decided I will no longer vote Labour, so I voted for the Green party instead.
Andy Burnham, with progressive, social democratic policies, is the leader we need at this time, to move the country into the future. He'll definitely get my vote, and wholehearted support.
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Jonathan Wilson 2 weeks ago
Wishing you/ us all the success in the world.
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Jonathan Saville 2 weeks ago
We know it makes sense. If any profit is made, that’s to our benefit. Even if any underinvested cost cutting is done WE would get that “benefit”. It’s a win-win.
Individuals extracting profit to the detriment of the populace only encourages a selfish society.
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Judy Steele 2 weeks ago
We need all our assets in common ownership. We are getting a two-tier NHS, ridiculous water scandals, and many another thing. Only not nuclear power please. Get rid of it.
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Anne Duggan 2 weeks ago
Public services should serve us all, not profit from neglect and careless stewardship.
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Angela Williams 2 weeks ago
× Let's Make Sure Labour Commit To some Core Labour Values.
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Sue Bennett 2 weeks ago
Yes yes yes!!! Please
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Heather Leybourn 2 weeks ago
Private ownership of public services never works. I am a lifelong Labour supporter and it grieves me that the Labour Party thinks that private ownership of public services is OK.
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philip watson 2 weeks ago
all public services have to be brought back under public ownership i voted for jeremy corbyn who was the best prime minister we never had at the local elections i voted green because i believe in there policies starmer has turned the labour into a watered down tory party thanking you phil watson
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Shirley March 2 weeks ago
nationalisation with no compensation
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Donna Cunningham 2 weeks ago
Green/Labour
I also feel there needs to be a change regarding media laws and brain washing the vulnerable.
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Mary Murphy 2 weeks ago
I was horrified when our assets were sold off by Thatcher. We must get them back.
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Marion Pass 2 weeks ago
I support this.
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Carole Shaw 2 weeks ago
Labour party member. Brings some sense back to the party
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Reg Higgins 2 weeks ago
I support this
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Helen O'Riain 2 weeks ago
I would dearly like to see Thames Water in public ownership.. It's a scandal and a disgrace. Among other things..
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Maureen and Kevin O'Brien 2 weeks ago
I would highly recommend that you read MUCKY WATER.
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Dulcie 2 weeks ago
We, the people demand that our public services are run by US…. Our government. The profits should be used for further development and great staff pay and perks….NOT for shareholders…….make the workers the ‘shareholders, ‘ and watch how they will take a good service and make it excellent. Schools, hospitals, transport, water and energy companies….run by us for US.
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Nic Kyle 2 weeks ago
I've never voted anything but Labour. After 13 years of the last administrations I desperately hoped that Labour could deliver on its promises while in opposion.
So far I hav been so disappointed with the Labour party's disappointingly timid approach to its rhetoric and manifesto commitments. I'm now believing that this the last chance for any real change - as a 77 year old community worker and carer I'm fervently hoping that I won't die before seeing a real Labour government.
I've recently becaome completely disencfranchied locally, with local authority having been left with no Labour councillors and having had a Labour MP murdered.
You seem to be our last chance.
A huge responsibility but please - don't blow it.
Also, given the fracturing of current politics, evn though it's not part of any Labour manaifesto, can you move on replacing first past the [post voting?
hanks,
Nic Kyle
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Grace C Maryon 2 weeks ago
Good luck Andy, Dont allow yourself to be distracted or influenced by all the noise. Stick to your public platform.
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Mandy Baldwin 2 weeks ago
I hope you will appeal to people who currently vote Reform because they think their leader sounds like an 'ordinary' bloke. I think your approach makes much more sense. To me, you are a real man of the people. Please don't let anyone persuade you to just give us more of the same as we have now. We need real socialism with fairness and kindness to everyone. Good luck! I am a Labour voter and would love to get our party back.
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Alison Pick 2 weeks ago
Do people remember how Andy Burnham played his part in the destruction of the NHS whilst he was Health Minister ? Should he be trusted ?
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Rae Gould 2 weeks ago
Having voted Labour most of my life because I always thought of the party as having the best possible outcomes for working people at the centre of all they do. I am so sad that we have allowed our basic services be bought by the highest bidder and not the ones who have our countries interests at heart. This making us vulnerable as we've seen recently. I'm forever hopeful that rational thinking will prevail and I believe that you Andy Burnham feel the same and are the one to stop the madness that's happening to our country at this time. Good luck.
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