tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52426985043117623292024-03-13T21:55:12.702+00:00Campaign For Public OwnershipCAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-62776813493764049002016-05-24T17:00:00.001+01:002016-05-24T17:02:08.815+01:00To support Public Ownership vote for an EU left exit<br />
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The CPO's Neil Clark's latest column for the Morning Star: <b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Why would supporters of public ownership wish to stay in an
organisation which is clearly hostile to the idea of state providers of
services and which is pushing member states to privatise and not nationalise,
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IT WAS a news story which didn’t get too much coverage in Britain, but it
was one which should give progressives and socialists who are planning to vote
Remain in June’s EU referendum food for thought.<br />
On December 14 2015, the British profiteering train and coach company
National Express (which has been taking us for a ride for some time here in
Britain) began operating two regional lines in Germany — taking them over from
the state-owned DB Regio. <br />
“The German rail market presents significant further opportunity,” enthused
NX chief executive Dean Finch...<br />
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The whole article can be read <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-fb62-To-support-public-ownership-vote-for-an-EU-left-exit">here. </a>CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-918361655980788762016-05-11T19:01:00.000+01:002016-05-11T19:01:01.247+01:00The Panama Papers and PrivatisationThe CPO's Neil Clark's latest Morning Star column<br />
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<b>IT ALL began in 1979. That was the year when privatisation was launched in Britain (back then it was called “denationalisation”) and exchange controls were lifted.</b><br />
<b>On October 23, Thatcher’s chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe stood up in Parliament and announced the abolition of all existing exchange controls — except those applying to Zimbabwe.</b><br />
<b>The controls which Howe was abolishing had existed for 40 years — and, like public ownership, were an integral part of the social democratic economic system which existed after WWII. But for the Thatcherites they were an unwelcome restriction which prevented the rich from becoming even richer.</b><br />
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You can read on<a href="https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-658e-The-Panama-Papers-and-privatisation"> here.</a></div>
CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-87182967390323574572016-04-11T08:45:00.002+01:002016-04-11T08:48:00.192+01:00The Land Registry sell-off is a disgrace<h1>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The CPO's Neil Clark writes in The Sunday Express</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;">IT is the public body that anyone who has bought property in England and Wales will have had dealings with.</span></h3>
<b>The Land Registry was established in 1862 and has been serving us quietly
and efficiently for more than 150 years. Now though, a dark cloud hangs over
the body that registers land ownership and maintains the documentation of
almost 24 million titles.</b><br />
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</b><b>Just before Easter, Business Secretary Sajid Javid announced plans to
privatise the Land Registry.</b><br />
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</b><b>“The preferred model is a contract between government and a private operator,
with all the core functions transferred out of the public sector,” said the
statement.</b><br />
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The whole article can be read <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/657770/Land-sell-off-property-UK-Land-Registry-privatisation-petition-public-ownership">here. </a><br />
Note:<b> We have until May 26 to let the Government know what we think of its privatisation proposals. You can send your views to
lr.consultation@ukgi.gov.uk or write to Lizzie Dixon, 1 Victoria Street, London,
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<br />CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-29653966791232823592016-02-25T18:06:00.003+00:002016-02-25T18:07:09.573+00:00We’re selling off the world, but who wins?The new column by the CPO's Neil Clark, for the Morning Star.<br />
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<b>BY ALL rights, the 2008 global financial crisis should have marked the end of the era of privatisation and the return to the more equitable mixed economy model which dominated in the post-war era.</b><br />
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<b>Instead, it only ushered in a new, more extreme phase in the neoliberal project.</b><br />
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<b>To reduce the deficit and get the public finances “in order,” we were told we had to privatise remaining publicly owned assets.</b><br />
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<b>It’s a task that’s been carried out with great relish by the Tories in Britain, aided from 2010-15 by their “Orange Book” Lib Dem coalition accomplices.</b><br />
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<b>In December, it was revealed that Chancellor George Osborne was on course to sell off more public assets than any chancellor for the past 30 years, even more than Nigel Lawson.</b><br />
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The full article can be read <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-1190-Were-selling-off-the-world-but-who-wins#">here:</a><br />
<br />CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-17627452858694324212015-11-09T18:29:00.004+00:002015-11-09T18:30:57.343+00:00Neil Clark: Privatisation and Big Brother go hand-in-gloveThe CPO's Neil Clark's new Morning Star column on the link between neoliberalism/neoconservatism and the surveillance state.<br />
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<b><i>The combination of privatisation, increased state surveillance and greater police powers suits the neoliberals and neocons who rule over us perfectly, argues NEIL CLARK</i></b><br />
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<b>On October 13 the government sold off the last publicly owned stake in Royal Mail, which had been in state hands since its inception in 1516.</b><br />
<b>On November 4 Theresa May announced a new Investigatory Powers Bill, which would enable mass state surveillance of everyone in Britain.</b><br />
<b>In the words of the US investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald: “The UK is about to become the only democracy in the world to force internet companies to store people’s browsing history.”</b><br />
<b>At first it might seem strange that a government that is so keen on privatising and reducing state involvement in the economy is also keen on increasing the state’s snooping powers. But there really is no contradiction.</b><br />
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The whole article can be read<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-e3fc-Privatisation-and-big-brother-go-hand-in-glove#"> here.</a><br />
<br />CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-24549923636513585542015-10-15T16:53:00.000+01:002015-10-15T16:53:07.157+01:00How support for Public Ownership can propel Jeremy Corbyn and Labour to powerThe CPO's Neil Clark's latest column for the Morning Star<b>.</b><br />
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<b>....Support for public ownership undoubtedly helped to propel Corbyn to the Labour leadership. It can also help him and Labour return to power in 2020.</b><br />
<b>For it’s not just Labour members who have had enough of privatisation. Polls carried out by the Money Saving Expert website, founded and edited by Martin Lewis, found large majorities in favour of public ownership earlier this year. A poll in late January showed that 86 per cent of the 10,742 people who voted were in favour of nationalising the railways. And 75 per cent supported renationalisation of the gas and energy companies..</b><br />
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Read the whole article<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-87f9-Wilsons-wisdom-proved-prophetic#"> here</a>CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-44636591391671927532015-09-15T17:29:00.001+01:002015-09-15T17:29:14.549+01:00Railing, then failing- The Tories favourite game<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The new Morning Star column from CPO Director Neil Clark:<br />
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<b>PRIVATISED companies are exposed for sharp practices. A “furious” government minister says that what they’re doing is wrong and threatens to “take action.” Nothing happens. If that sequence of events sounds familiar then its no surprise. It’s what’s been occurring on a regular basis since the era of privatisation rip-offs began in 1979.</b><br />
<b>The latest example is the “revelation” that rail company First Great Western has been hiding the cheapest fares from its customers at its booking offices. Newspapers published emails from the company to its customers which stated that its staff were under no obligation to inform passengers about the best fares — it was up to passengers to find them for themselves.</b><br />
<b>Straight on cue, Rail Minister Claire Perry expressed her outrage....</b><br />
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You can read the whole column<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-942c-Railing,-then-failing-the-Tories-favourite-game#."> here.</a><br />
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CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-4283944543208985442015-04-13T15:43:00.000+01:002015-04-13T15:43:01.764+01:00Cameron's track record on privatisation- a small reminderThe CPO's Neil Clark latest column in the <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/">Morning Star </a><br />
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<b>REMEMBER when David Cameron was elected as Conservative leader in the autumn of 2005?</b><br />
<b>Back then he was portrayed by his supporters in the elite media clique as a moderate “one nation” Tory — a man who was going to deliver “compassionate conservatism” and move “the nasty party” away from Thatcherism.</b><br />
<b>But, as I pointed out in a newspaper article which went very much against the tide in October 2005, there was nothing moderate about “Dave” or his policies.</b><br />
<b>Cameron’s extremism in office can be seen quite clearly in many areas, and not least in his zeal for privatisation.</b><br />
<b>The Con-Dem coalition which Cameron has led has been the most fanatically pro-privatisation government in our country’s history — privatising things which even Margaret Thatcher decided were best kept in public ownership.</b><br />
<b>With a general election looming, let’s remind ourselves of some of the national assets and public services which have been sold off in the past five years under the Con-Dems and how much British taxpayers have been short-changed by these sales.</b><br />
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The whole article can be read<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0328-CAMERONS-TRACK-RECORD-A-SMALL-REMINDER#"> here.</a>CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-64350313649850383352015-02-16T17:30:00.001+00:002015-02-16T17:30:29.594+00:00Who will slam the brakes on unfair bus fare rises?The CPO's Neil Clark's new column in the Morning Star can be read <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-a9a2-Who-will-slam-the-brakes-on-unfair-bus-fare-rises#.">here. </a>CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-26760192795485771972015-01-15T19:09:00.002+00:002015-01-15T19:09:40.990+00:00The Great Privatisation Swindle-Public Meeting in Yeovil this Saturday<b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Great Privatisation swindle - the case for Public Ownership. Public meeting in Yeovil, Somerset, Saturday 17th January 2015. <br />
Speaker: Neil Clark, Director of the Campaign for Public Ownership.<br />
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Full details of the meeting <a href="http://www.yeoviltuc.org.uk/?the-great-privatisation-swindle-the-case-for-public-ownership.-public-meeting-saturday-17th-january-2015.,60"> here.</a><br />
Do try and come along!</span></b>CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-82806352719800438632015-01-05T12:26:00.000+00:002015-01-05T12:26:13.267+00:00PRESS RELEASE: THE CPO AIMS TO MAKE PUBLIC OWNERSHIP THE NUMBER ONE ELECTION ISSUE IN 2015PRESS RELEASE: 5th JANUARY 2015<br />
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THE FOUR QUESTIONS TEST: HOW THE CPO AIMS TO MAKE PUBLIC OWNERSHIP THE NUMBER ONE ELECTION ISSUE IN 2015<br />
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Today we have seen major demonstrations at rail stations across in the UK in protest over yet another round of above-inflation fare increases- in a country which already has by far and away the highest rail fares in Europe. The Campaign for Public Ownership welcomes and strongly supports such protests but believes that it's not just the railways we ought to be concentrating on in a general election year. Polls showing sizeable majorities in favour not just of renationalising the railways, but also water (in England where it is privatised) and our energy companies too.It is fair to say that privatisation, launched as an ideological project by the government of Margaret Thatcher thirty-six years ago and carried on by successive British governments since, has never been so unpopular, or so discredited.The problem that we public ownership campaigners have is not convincing people about the failures of privatisation- which are all too apparent, but making the issue of public ownership the election deal breaker. People oppose privatisation and want renationalisation, but none of the leading political parties supports renationalisation: all, to a greater or lesser extent still wedded to a deeply flawed neoliberal model.<br />
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CPO director Neil Clark has outlined how he believes things might change- and has formulated a 'Four Questions' strategy which the CPO will be promoting in the weeks before this year's general election. It is our ambition to make Public Ownership the number one issue in the 2015 election.<br />
<b><i>'The first thing to do is to find out who your parliamentary candidates are. Then email or write to them making it clear that the answers given to four key questions will determine whether or not you will vote for them. The questions are:Do you support the renationalisation of Britain’s railways?Do you support the renationalisation of our bus services?Do you support renationalisation of the energy sector, and in the case of England, water too?Do you support a publicly owned NHS and oppose all privatisation of health services and other public services?Anyone who answers No to all four of these questions is a candidate who supports privatisation and is is not worthy of support. The ideal candidate is the one who answers Yes to all four. Simply vote for the candidate with the highest number of Yes answers — if there’s more than one candidate who passes the public ownership test then check with their party’s manifesto to make sure that these commitments are official policy.Opinion polls show large majorities in favour of renationalisation but, in order to make our vastly superior numbers count, we need to convince those standing for election that we’re going to cast our votes on the basis of this issue. '</i></b><br />
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The CPO's aim is to put all major candidates at this year's election 'on the spot' on the issue of public ownership in a way that they have never been put 'on the spot' before.We believe that if candidates are asked 'The Four Questions' test, we will get the change that the majority of Britons, fed up with paying over the odds for basic services, would urgently like to see.<br />
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<br />CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-4005527254779717412014-11-15T18:27:00.001+00:002014-11-15T18:27:47.214+00:00Let’s Make Public Ownership the election deal breakerHow can we make Public Ownership the election deal breaker in Britain in 2015? The CPO's Neil Clark explains how in his new Morning Star column:<br />
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<b>IN the Morning Star last month I looked at what the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Labour and Ukip had to offer us in relation to public ownership. Or to be more accurate, what they didn’t have to offer us.</b><br />
<b>Another five years of the present coalition — or a Conservative majority government — will mean the end of the NHS and see the sell-off of the remaining assets in public ownership, including Britain’s main trunk roads. </b><br />
<b>So, if you do want to see Richard Branson or some other billionaire capitalist in charge of the M1, as well as rail routes, hospital services and the Met Office), our publicly owned woodlands flogged off to the highest bidder and our libraries either closed or run by US multinationals, then simply vote Conservative or Lib Dem. </b><br />
<b>Labour has edged away from the neoliberal policies of Tony Blair but while its support for a publicly owned rail operator is a step in the right direction, the party is still a long way away from the progressive stance it took on public ownership before Blair became leader in 1994. </b><br />
<b>Ukip, while stating that it would oppose the pro-privatisation TTIP, has made no pledges to renationalise anything — a stance which is surely at odds with their claim to be the “People’s Army.”</b><br />
<b>Well, that was the “Big Four” — but what of the others? </b><br />
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You can read the whole piece<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-4008-Lets-make-public-ownership-the-election-deal-breaker#"> here.</a><br />
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CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-83472797494567046182014-10-16T18:32:00.000+01:002014-11-15T18:32:56.788+00:00Public Ownership- the Big Issue that could swing it in May 2015 <b>It’s general election night. Labour are on course for victory, with a small majority. The Labour leader is asked by the BBC interviewer if the size of the majority will hinder his party’s legislative programme. </b><br />
<b>“We shall carry out our programme — our manifesto,” the Labour leader replies. “We shall give priority of course to putting on the statute book all those things that we have said, like the public ownership of land…”</b><br />
<b>That exchange took place exactly 40 years ago after the election of October 10 1974. Public ownership was a topic that cropped up a lot in that election, but fast forward to 2014 and it’s a very different story.</b><br />
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The whole of CPO Director Neil Clark's Morning Star column can be read<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-05a8-The-big-issue-that-could-swing-it-come-May-2015#."> here.</a></div>
CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-90104930893493821962014-08-30T12:33:00.001+01:002014-08-30T12:33:23.830+01:00Taken for a ride: Why it's time to renationalise the busesCPO Director Neil Clark's new column in the <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/">Morning Star.</a><br />
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<strong><em>Subsidies for private bus companies run into hundreds of millions and the service provided leaves a lot to be desired. Neil Clark explains why it’s time to renationalise the buses</em></strong> <br />
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<strong>IT’S good to see that more and more media commentators and pundits are boarding the "Renationalise The Railways Express" to join those of us who’ve been calling for such a move for many years. </strong><br />
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<strong>Calling for the railways to be renationalised 10 years ago had one marked down as a hard-core Marxist or political extremist. Now it’s perfectly mainstream — as even the supporters of privatisation find it hard to make any kind of case for keeping the status quo.</strong> <br />
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<strong>However, when it comes to renationalising bus transport, it’s rather a different story.</strong> <br />
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The whole article can be read <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-f3a9-Taken-for-a-ride#">here:</a><br />
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If you're fed up with rocketing bus fares and cuts in services, please consider donating to the CPO, via the donate button on our website, to help us with our campaign for renationalisation.<br />
All contributions, large or small, gratefully received!CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-20738487391206554102014-04-06T17:25:00.001+01:002014-04-06T17:25:15.437+01:00Royal Mail sell-off: Don't let Labour's front bench off the hook<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The new Public Ownership column from the CPO's Neil Clark in the <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/">Morning Star.</a><br />
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<strong>It's Grand National day. In 1937, the world's most famous steeplechase was won by a horse called Royal Mail.</strong><br />
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<strong>Just as well Vince Cable and George Osborne weren't around then as they'd have flogged the poor animal off for a fraction of its value - and left the old owners paying for its upkeep, with the new owners able to pocket the profits of future wins.</strong><br />
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<strong>For, of course, this is what they've done to our Royal Mail. Quite rightly, the price the Royal Mail was sold for has come under attack, with the National Audit Office reporting this week that the government's actions cost British taxpayers £750 million in a single day, but while the fact that this national institution was sold for at least £1.6 billion below its real value is scandalous - and some would say criminal - it would be a mistake to base our critique of the sale solely on the basis that "they sold it off on the cheap."</strong><br />
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You can read the whole article<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-208a-Dont-let-Labour-off-the-hook#"> here.</a>CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-78903513943123433512014-01-05T11:57:00.003+00:002014-01-05T11:57:47.620+00:00Rail against Privatisation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>IT IS the New Year tradition that we could well do without. Every year, Britain’s rail users, who already pay the highest fares in Europe, are hit with increases on their first day back to work. Happy New Year? Our greedy rail companies make sure that the goodwill lasts only one day.</strong><br />
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CPO Director Neil Clark makes the case for renationalising Britain's railways in today's Sunday Express. You can read the whole of his article<a href="http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/452104/Rail-against-privatisation"> here.</a><br />
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If you agree with him, please do consider a donation to our campaign, via this website's 'Donate' button. Thanks to everyone who has donated to the CPO in 2013. Your support is hugely appreciated. The more money we can raise in 2014, the louder we can make our voices heard.CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-52456219605897030952013-10-13T14:15:00.001+01:002013-10-13T14:15:18.256+01:00A right royal rip-off: What the privatisation of the Royal Mail tells us about modern Britain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What a black day for Britain. Here is CPO director's <a href="http://www.neilclark66.blogspot.com/">Neil Clark's</a> new piece on the shameful privatisation of the Royal Mail, and what it tells us about our governing elite and in whose interest they govern.<br />
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<b>It’s the wilful destruction of another much-loved British institution. The privatisation of the Royal Mail, the British postal service, brings to an end nearly five hundred years of history- stretching back the days of King Henry VIII. </b><br />
<b>By privatising the Royal Mail, our coalition government has shown that it does not care a jot for our national heritage, or the devastating impact the sell-off will have on remote rural communities, or how the elderly and the poor will be disproportionately affected. They have shown us that all they care about is rewarding their wealthy backers in the City of London and keeping in with the giants of global capitalism.</b><br />
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You can read the whole article<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/uk-royal-mail-privatization-destruction-073/"> here.</a><br />
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This new column by CPO Director <a href="http://neilclark66.blogspot.co.uk/">Neil Clark</a> appears in the <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/">Morning Star.</a><br />
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<b>One of the funniest moments in the hilarious Blackadder Goes Forth series was when our heroes are reminiscing about their time in the first world war trenches before the going "over the top" in the final "big push."</b><br />
<b>"I mean, we've had some good times. We've had damnably good laughs, eh?" says the silly-arse public schoolboy George (played by Hugh Laurie). "Yes. Can't think of any specific ones, myself..." replies Captain Blackadder.</b><br />
<b>I was reminded of that classic exchange when reading the article on Labour's policy towards the privatisation of the Royal Mail by shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, published on the Huffington Post website.</b><br />
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You can read the whole article<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-f5c4-Lost-in-the-Huffington-post-Labours-mail-betrayal#"> here. </a><br />
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The CPO's Director <a href="http://www.neilclark66.blogspot.com/">Neil Clark </a> makes the case against the privatisation of the Royal Mail- and against privatisation in general, in a lively debate on <a href="http://voiceofrussia.com/uk/news/2013_09_17/Thatcher-privatisation-Royal-Mail-UK-4933/">Voice of Russia radio. </a> CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-38294887285703273342013-09-12T10:06:00.002+01:002013-09-12T10:06:51.724+01:00CPO Press Release on UK government's plans to privatise the Royal Mail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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PRESS RELEASE: THURSDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2013<br />
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THE CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT PLANS TO PRIVATISE THE ROYAL MAIL<br />
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The Campaign for Public Ownership has said that the government's planned privatisation of Royal Mail, in total defiance of public opinion,' highlights once again the complete contempt that Britain's pro-privatisation neoliberal elite has for the views of ordinary people' .<br />
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CPO co-founder and Director, Neil Clark says:<br />
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'At a time when privatisation has never been so unpopular or so discredited, Britain's neoliberal coalition plans to sell off a much-loved publicly owned institution which has been in state-ownership since its inception nearly 500 years ago. Opinion polls show over two-thirds of people opposed to the sale, while one third say they are 'strongly opposed'. But once again, the UK Coalition government is treating the views of the vast majority of the public with contempt. This is another case of privatise the profits, nationalise the losses. The private buyers will get a business that has been 'fattened-up' by record hikes in stamp prices, but we- the taxpayer - have been left holding the big pension fund liabilities- but we won't have the profits from the Royal Mail to pay for them. The government says that universal deliveries being maintained- but how long will this last? There is also a big threat to rural services. <br />
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The claim that privatisation will improve an already excellent postal service is pure neoliberal propaganda: has privatisation improved Britain’s railways- or brought lower prices and better service to gas, electricity and water consumers? The reality is that the opposite has occurred and if we do privatise Royal Mail we will get a worse, not better service- with cutbacks in deliveries and hiked prices, as The Netherlands' disastrous experience of postal privatisation proves. <br />
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The Campaign for Public Ownership is working with all other groups who oppose the sale to mobilise public opposition to the government's plans as we believe that it is still possible to thwart the planned sell-off. We will also be calling on the Labour Party to pledge to renationalise the Royal Mail as this will help to sabotage any sale. <br />
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The Campaign for Public Ownership is a cross-party organisation which aims to harness public dissatisfaction with privatisation and campaign for a reversal of the disastrous policies of the last thirty-four years. The Campaign seeks to expose the cost to the public of privatisation, and highlight the inefficiencies and profiteering of the privatised companies. We also strongly urge that the British government does not give a penny of taxpayers money to a privately owned company without the public receiving equity in that company. The Campaign seeks to counter the negative propaganda about public ownership put about by those with a vested financial interest in privatisation. It’s time to bring to an end to the Great Privatisation Rip-Off.<br />
Email: <a href="mailto:publicownership@hotmail.co.uk"><u><span style="color: blue;">publicownership@hotmail.co.uk</span></u></a><br />
Follow us on Twitter: @PublicOwnership<br />
CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-35570513513935929002013-08-15T10:10:00.002+01:002013-08-15T10:13:31.468+01:00Angry about rail fares? Get on board the renationalisation expressThe campaign for the renationalisation of the railways is gaining momentum!<br />
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Here is CPO Director Neil Clark's new article from <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/13/rail-fares-passengers-renationalisation">The Guardian.</a><br />
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<strong>The 50th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery of August 1963 has been marked with a plethora of articles and the publication of new books. But why all the fuss, because the reality is that we're living through a Great Train Robbery which makes the activities of Ronnie Biggs and Co look insignificant. While Biggs and his gang only got away with £2.6m, the privatised train companies have (perfectly legally it must be said) taken billions from the public purse</strong><strong> since 1996 – and have had the chutzpah to also charge us the highest rail fares in Europe...</strong><br />
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The whole article can be read<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/13/rail-fares-passengers-renationalisation"> here.</a><br />
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If you would like to support the CPO's campaign to end the Great Privatised Train Robbery, then any donations would be greatly appreciated! And we're always looking for volunteers to help hand out our leaflets at demonstrations, so please get in touch if you can help!CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-7314295071639731012013-04-23T18:40:00.001+01:002013-04-23T18:42:50.921+01:00Save the Royal Mail!<br />
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Having sold off Search and Rescue, the manic privatisers in the UK Coalition are now turning their attentions to the Royal Mail, with an autumn sell-off planned. We can't allow the neoliberals to destroy our postal service in the same way they've destroyed our railways and other public services.<br />
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You can sign a petition against the privatisation <a href="http://saveourroyalmail.org/get-involved/">here,</a> and a model letter for you to send to your MP is also available. Also, please keep an eye on the CPO Twitter feed @PublicOwnership and the Save our Royal Mail <a href="http://saveourroyalmail.org/">website</a> for details of forthcoming demonstrations/protests against the planned sell-off.<br />
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As to what a privatised postal service would be like, we don't have to look far: only to The Netherlands where privatisation has brought chaos (article<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353811/Think-post-bad-Heres-soon-worse.html"> here</a>). This chaos will be coming to the UK, if the Coalition get their way.<br />
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This piece by CPO co-founder Neil Clark, on privatisation and the 'Emperor's New Clothes' effect, appears in the<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/"> Morning Star</a><br />
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<b>.......Another good example of the Emperor's New Clothes effect is the current "debate" about soaring gas and electricity bills and what the government should do about them.</b><br />
<b>The "experts" tell us that we need more competition in the energy market. We need more regulation.</b><br />
<b>We need the government to "get tough" with the utility companies and make it easier for us to switch providers.</b><br />
<b>But the reason why our utility bills are so high and continue to rise year after year above inflation is a simple one indeed. It is the same reason our rail fares are so high and continue to rise year after year above inflation. It's called "privatisation."</b><br />
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You can read the piece in full<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/131321"> here.</a><br />
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CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846209251310766983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5242698504311762329.post-6165619275768064282013-03-28T20:21:00.001+00:002013-03-28T20:22:09.854+00:00Search and Rescue privatisation reveals a coalition obsessed with privatisation<br />
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<b>You really couldn't make it up. As the RAF search and rescue service does heroic work helping people caught out or marooned in heavy snow in north Wales, the government announces that the very same service is to be privatised – with a 10-year contract worth £1.6bn being awarded to an American company whose headquarters are in Texas. "Our search and rescue helicopter service plays a crucial role, saving lives and providing assistance to people in distress on both land and on sea," said transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin on Tuesday. But why, when the SAR service is so excellent, and does such a fantastic job, is the government handing over all the work to a private company? We're told that the RAF's rescue helicopters are "ageing"; but can we really not afford to buy them 22 new ones?</b><br />
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<b>It's not the only privatisation to be announced this week. The east coast mainline, which has been in public ownership since the previous franchise holder National Express quit in 2009, is to be reprivatised – despite the railway under public ownership being a resounding success.</b><br />
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The whole article can be read <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/27/search-and-rescue-coalition-obsessed-privatisation">here</a><br />
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<b>The problem lies in the ownership structure of the energy companies. Their overriding aim is to maximise profits for shareholders, (and in the case of EDF, to the French state). Instead of reacting with horror to the entirely predictable news that PLCs are putting the interests of shareholders before Britain's long-suffering energy consumers, we should instead be calling for the government to take the one step that will lead to lower energy prices in the long term. Restoring the energy companies to public ownership will mean that prices can be lowered, as there will be no shareholder dividends to pay.</b></div>
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