Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
Privatised water: why won't Labour clean the pool?
Nationalising water is more popular than the party itself — but Starmer's Labour, with its ideological inheritance from the Blair era and the well-trodden path from politics to consultancy work in mind, won't take the plunge, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
THE private water companies are pumping filth into the rivers and the sea and pumping money out of the system into their owners’ pockets, via dividends and artificial debts.
So, it’s the perfect time for Labour to back away from the popular policy of water renationalisation.
It looks very like Labour is abandoning water nationalisation, but it’s hard to be sure. Because the current Labour leadership doesn’t often take clear stands on policy.
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