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Labour backs plans to return railway network to public control - Guardian/Observer
Charles Ellson wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:42:21 +0100, Bevan Price wrote: On 01/07/2012 00:15, Charles Ellson wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:05:25 +0100, Bruce wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/30/labour-railway-network-state-control Labour backs plans to return railway network to public control Sweeping reform would begin with renationalisation of key routes and end franchising of services Plans to bring the national rail network back under public ownership in order to halt big fare increases and prevent private companies siphoning off huge profits will be considered by Labour as part of its policy review, the Observer can reveal. I'll believe it when I see it. Maybe they've conveniently forgotten to mention how they will achieve it without tripping over EU rules which will come as an "unexpected surprise" when they try it ? Yes, it is just as believable as Harold Wilson & co. saying they will halt the Beeching closures. But as for the EU - sooner or later, we will get a UK government that will tell EU precisely what to do with their policies. A lot of people are getting fed up with EU meddling in what they consider to be matters for our own government. Swings and roundabouts. That "lot of people" conveniently forget about the amount of exports enabled by "EU meddling" and seem to be more concerned with turning the UK into a remote-controlled satellite of Uncle Sam than with re-establishing any kind of self-sufficiency. On the contrary, most people now recognise that over 50% of British exports go to other EU countries and that only a tiny fraction of our exports go to the USA. The UK is also a major market for goods from other EU countries. What people here don't want is a United States of Europe. The ever-closer monetary, fiscal and political union that is being touted as the solution to the crisis in the Eurozone is exactly what most British people don't want. In 1973, the UK joined a Common Market with a view to increasing trade with other European countries at a time when our markets in the Commonwealth were diminishing. However, our politicians were less than honest with us because the treaty we signed also pointed the way to an eventual political union which is now getting ever closer because of the Euro crisis. The UK needs to take a step back from those countries that want political union, but at the same time both the UK and the rest of the EU need free trade. The answer seems obvious: the UK should rejoin the EFTA/EEA countries including Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland and remain in the Single Market while not being a member of the EU. |
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