Will train fares be cheaper under Labour? Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has said she can’t guarantee it – so what good is her party’s fake “nationalisation” promise?

Haigh has promised a “best price guarantee” – but that is not the same as reducing fares, and in fact means there won’t be anything to stop them rising again and again in the future:

But this is just part of the problem with Labour’s “nationalisation” plan. One huge element is the fact that not all rail franchises will be renationalised by the end of the next Parliament, because several franchises won’t come to an end by then and Labour will only return them to public ownership when that happens:

Also off the “nationalisation” list are rail freight and rolling stock companies; this is not a re-nationalisation of the UK’s railways. And look at the amount the public purse has been paying in subsidies, just over the last 10 years!

We’re paying a lot of money for a service many of us don’t even use.

No wonder some of us are disillusioned with Keir Starmer and his schemes:

Too harsh? Not by a long way!

This Writer would strongly advise you to read Another Angry Voice‘s article on the subject. Among many faults he finds with the policy, the author has this to say about Starmer himself:

Keir Starmer lied through his teeth to con his way into the Labour leadership with “pledges” to renationalise water and energy, end internal Labour factionalism, increase taxes on the very rich, deliver a Green New Deal, and adopt ethical foreign policies, then he gleefully ripped them all up when he got his hands on power, and even bragged to Andrew Marr that he’d lie to people again if it helped him get even more power.

You’d have to be astoundingly naive to believe that this time he’s telling the truth about his plans, when his entire leadership so far has consisted of betrayals, broken pledges, watered-down policies, and downright complicity with Britain’s parasitical private profiteers.

And you’re not that naive. Are you?

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