We Own It
@We_OwnIt
Public services are better run for people not profit. Campaigning for public ownership, against privatisation.
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https://weownit.org.uk 21-05-2012 14:56:00
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'Is it too much to ask that new electric buses bought with public money, remain in public ownership?🚍💸
Why is Fiona Hyslop giving 2 London-based private financiers £58m, instead of SPTCorporate?
Read Catriona Stewart's article on the #ScotZEB2 scandal👇
heraldscotland.com/news/23980620.…
💥 Latest Survation. polls on public control of buses in West Yorkshire 👇
A massive 77% of people believe that, as private services receive large amounts of public funding, timetables, routes and fares should be set by PUBLIC bodies.
More here: survation.com/west-yorkshire…
Andy Burnham We Own It On all aspects of bus policy in our We Own It poll from control of fares, routes, to taking over failing services, 70% and over support public over private. Labour mayors in the North are starting to speak for the 70% and showing a successful way of changing the conversation.
Can we call ourselves a civilised society when 2/3 of hospice funding comes from charity and only 1/3 from the state?
Victoria Atkins should commit to funding end of life care properly. Instead, it's seen a real-terms cut in the last 2 years.
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Labour’s publicly controlled buses policy is vital – but it’s only the first step, writes Matthew Topham.
From The New Statesman Spotlight ⬇️ newstatesman.com/spotlight/econ…