Re:Public Opinion in Authoritarian States
by youngtaff on Thursday September 26, 2019 @01:52PM
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Let's face it the union fat cats want power and they want it so they can get their industries nationalised because it gives them more power rather than for the good of the general UK population.
We've got better things, more urgent things to spend money on that nationalising utilities etc. (we can control them through regulation anyway)
Re:Public Opinion in Authoritarian States
by JetSpiegel on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:30PM
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> we can control them through regulation anyway
If that would be true, the level of service wouldn't have degraded to the point nationalization is a reasonable (and popular) proposal.
Re:Public Opinion in Authoritarian States
by ggm on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:12PM
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This is false. Taking this sentence and considering the context of widescale argumentative and vituperative language do you think another way of saying this, like'thats not right' or 'thats not correct' or 'i think you are mistaken' might actually be important?
This is false. Labour is undergoing a reversal in the policy of the blairite years where they tied their mast to corporate/NGO elites and decoupled themselves from unions. Unions now have a lot more power (including official voting power / influence over the NEC) in the Labour party than they ever have and corporate influence has waned almost completely.