(UK) Labour wants to renationalise railways, but what of other privatised services?

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http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2015/sep/29/jeremy-corbyn-business-public-services

Public transport and social housing are staple Corbyn policies, but public leaders are more concerned about the private sector’s reach into local services

Labour wants to renationalise railways, but what of other privatised services?
Jane Dudman
Tuesday 29 September 2015 11.41 EDT

With the comprehensive spending review looming at the end of November, public leaders and their management teams are poring over their spreadsheets, crunching the numbers and weighing up potential cuts.

In the face of deciding which services and policies to proffer as sacrificial lambs, what happens down on the Brighton seafront at the Labour party conference runs the risk of feeling a bit irrelevant. But as the Guardian’s public services editor, David Brindle, has pointed out, Corbyn’s Labour party has got to have meaningful things to say to public services leaders across the UK if it is to be a credible opposition.

“I firmly believe that leadership is about listening,” Corbyn told the conference on Tuesday, in his leadership speech. That will need to include listening to those responsible for delivering local government services, health, social care, policing and social housing. Those leaders are anxiously trying to work out what November’s comprehensive spending review will mean for their services.

Corbyn also said that Labour will unapologetically challenge austerity, although shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said the party will manage the economy carefully. Corbyn and shadow housing minister John Healey have both set building more council houses as a cornerstone an important part of a Labour policy of public investment for growth. On Monday, Healey announced that the state could build 100,000 new council houses and housing association homes a year to drive down the UK’s spiralling housing benefit bill and tackle the affordability crisis.

[T_i_B]

1. In order to revive the "shopping list" approach to nationalization.,..

....a Corbyn lead government would have to make a success of nationalizing the railways as that's a big Corbyn policy.

However, I don't think that nationalizing the railways would be a successful policy. I think people often take for granted the improvements in service that have happened since British Rail was privatized. Even though ticket prices remain an issue.