Labour’s big splash

WATER rats who drown customers with ever higher bills have nobody to blame but themselves when voters call for the industry to be renationalised.

The same is true of electricity, gas, rail and mail firms when the public feels these big corporations are more interested in profits than serving the people who pay the bills.

Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell makes practical arguments for a fundamental shift from the wealthy establishment to families who deserve a better deal.

His speech was unashamedly socialist yet many of the policies are borrowed from other European countries or are in Labour’s tradition of improving prosperity and social justice.

Goodwill swills down the drain when leaks go unrepaired while prices shoot up.

Labour must not be anti-business but we applaud when it is anti business-as-usual.