How we'll be backing Corbyn on public ownership

Private ownership of public services is for corporations to exploit the people and increase prices. Such systems are untenable in the long term, except for the exploiters, and against the public’s interest and well being.

All public services should be owned and operated by the people for the people.

Keep up the good work. It's time to fight back and stop the private companies and individuals fleecing money from the public purse. We've now got a person who says what he means and wants to protect our services.

We need public ownership on all the big supermarkets as well.They make massive profits to!

A "mixed economy" - if implemented by Government, could be the "ideal" economy.

Its success would depend on the quality, integrity, learning and experience of those who are to be involved.

Assuming that total honesty and total lack of all aspects of corruption is assured and guaranteed through total transparency, then those economies, businesses and industries that do become subject to Public Ownership, it then relies on incentivisation and a healthy, competitive spirit to encourage senior execs to use their utmost endeavours to ensure that from from top to bottom, every employee will be as keen to perform to the best of Public Service Standards....perhaps on a Regional basis...whereby at Annual intervals, the leading National "Best Regional Performer" in that utility will earn (for example, a 20 percent reduction in charges to all domestic users for one year... as opposed to profits being hived off to private investors and speculators.

If the financial climate imposes serious limitations and investment is required to maintain, upgrade and to modernise that industry, then the Annual Twentyfiver Percenter 'discount' might have to be deferred to another year.

The above is expressed in naive terms but illustrates that a "British kind of Socialism" should not... and must not be confused with any form of Idealogy that has roots in other times and Countries, regardless of the many historical precedents that many will surely argue that our path for the future should be linked to some elses past. Wrong! This is the perfect time for introducing a unique and accommodating British way of finding our way towards a secure future.

We really need to take back ownership if our public services,transport and utilities. In these days of modern technology it will be so easy to make these facilities publicly accountable. I would be very happy to be part of a public panel by email for instance, to scrutinise public transport as I have no other means of getting around due to poor eyesight preventing me driving. So pleased we seem to have a politician willing to bring re nationalisation back on the political agenda.

Letter to the Swindon Advertiser local newspaper as published today, which may be of interest to 'we own it'. Thank you!

Dear Editor,

Some weeks ago I wrote to the SA concerning the loss of the Meteorological Office contract with the BBC, and I also outlined what a great loss this would be for all of us as the forecasts would possibly be no longer based upon science, and the super-computers that back it up.

It gave me great pleasure to see a small letter in last Friday’s SA from an F E Sharp of Plymouth, entitled ‘Don’t axe Met Office’ in which he mentions that a petition exists at WWW.petition.co.uk where one needs to navigate to the ‘Environment section’, to find, and sign ‘Weather Contract with the Met. Office’.

As the letter from very short, succinct, and to the point I have considered that even though F E Sharp did not mention as such, being only 36 miles from the Met. Office in Exeter he may well be in their employ and if so this is definitely something to be proud of as they are the unsung heroes of the civil service that are taken for granted, and barely if ever warrant a mention in the media.

I particularly noted what he mentioned about having to keep the weather forecast supplied from within the UK, as this clearly points to the distinct possibility of it being outsourced to a foreign contractor which would be nothing short of a disaster, and not just from the standpoint of scientific accuracy.

I am most grateful for F E Sharp making me aware of this petition and I will be signing it at the first opportunity, and I also sincerely hope that other SA readers that have over the years who have cherished the daily forecasts that are supplied to BBC TV and radio as part of our British way of life will do likewise.

Finally I see the loss of the contract with the BBC as being the ‘unthinkable’ as it has always made common sense to resource this vital information from the best scientific resource available, and I must conclude that putting out this service to contract in the first instance is yet another precursor from this government to quietly privatise it, in the hope that none of us are going to notice. Like so many things that have been privatised we all end up with an inferior second class replacement, and as the old saying goes, ‘when it’s gone its gone’, along with yet another part of our cherished British way of life.

Thank you

Yours Sincerely

G A Woodward, Nelson Street, Swindon.

Keep British utilities and transport in British taxpayers hands not in other countries hands. Cameron should be ashamed of himself.

Why was the East Coast Railway put back into private hands? It made a profit for the public purse and offered more reasonable fares for the public. Virgin/Gloag have put up the prices and offer a less good service.

The whole railway system should be back in public hands with a new clean sweep management. So should power and water.

Thank you for writing to me. I wish you well in the aim of ensuring that those things that we have created together remain in the public realm for the benefit of all.

I would add that, for me, it is the very idea of ownership that lies at the heart of our difficulties.

With all good wishes.

There is a fiction that the market does things more efficiently and benevolently than the state. In order to make this fiction plausible, the state tries to show itself to be as inefficient and malevolent as possible.

Too much rhetoric confuses. What is required to underpin the message about the relevance of public ownership are facts and figures for example on: 1. costs - our population will be concerned about initial re-acquisition costs of utilities and the effects on bills. These will ultimately be more acceptable than they are now but people need to 'see' that 2. health and welfare - public transport (particularly trains) must be causing unlimited amounts of strain on personal health of travellers, costs nationally in GP visits due to stress, hospital visits due to physical strain and costs to industry due to 'not getting there' apart from the hiving off of profits to re-pay private investors 3. NHS - costs, staffing figures etc. are already 'out there' but not in plain facts - it costs more to run matters with constant changes without consulting those who actually work in the medical profession, it is more efficient to retain not only trained staff but their goodwill too. etc.etc. 4. The history of how we got to this position needs setting out so that everyone who is interested and hopefully too those who are initially not can be properly informed whether they have studied history/politics or not. 5. The method of rectifying matters needs setting out - the stages, costs, methodology. 6. The ultimate benefits as well as problems need setting out.

As has been mentioned many times - people are not stupid but just a bit too busy/lazy and hazy to make a decision when that depends on 'finding out' all sorts of relevant information upon which to make a decision to support a policy. Provide straight forward facts backed up by evidence and the case will pretty well be won. There will always be those whose ideas differ and their political persuasion cannot be changed - at first! Information is the key word. Inform! 'Opinion' is largely irrelevant.

I wish Jeremy Corbyn and this new era well in proving a forum for debate. ideas for improvement and a more Just Society for all.

This is something I have believed in virtually all my adult life. The energy companies are screwing us left, right and centre with only shareholders and directors/managers/etc getting anything out ie the tory supporters. As for the railways, they were in a mess when they were privatised and now service no longer exists and profits rule.