Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "'We don't own the railways', says Chief Secretary to the Treasury" video.

  1. No! because you sold them off... The taxpayer owned the railways, the Tories sold them off. Now we pay the companies subsidies, give them tax breaks and then they ask us to bail them out every few years... Privatisation is a con to move vast amounts of money from the taxpayer's pocket into the offshore bank accounts of wealthy shareholders...
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  2.  @munashemsipa4177  Like water, energy, railways, post office etc? Prices all gone up, service levels down, and increased reliance on taxpayer funding and bailouts. Your hype has no place in reality, it's the brochure that no one is gullible enough to believe...
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  3.  @celticsole7542  Agreed, Thatcher reduced industry to purge the left and Unions of power in a Pinochet-inspired attack while putting our eggs in the London fiscal basket. Since then the Tories have turned us into a global hub for laundering the criminal elite's cash for them. Now we have a 3rd of the workforce in working poverty, zero-hour contracts and most people are on minimum wage. While the Tories are feeding tax-dodging corporations £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies. Those same corporations are costing us £40-120 billion per annum via the tax gap/unpaid corporate taxes. The Tories have created over 2/3rds of our £2.4 trillion national debt, lowered our triple-A credit rating at least twice and given us a debt to GDP ratio of over 100%. They are fiscally incompetent but have good PR as the media are owned by their donors. Land of dopes and Tories m8.
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