Labour Pledges to Nationalise the Rail Network: Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh

All natural monopolies, so water, gas and electricity, they all need to be nationalised, no more ripping off consumers for shareholder profits.

Actual good news. Let’s hope Labour actually stick to their promise this time around

if it is essential for the country to function it needs to be nationalized. simple as that. you can have private companies for sure but there always needs to be that baseline to maintain standards

I worry the government doesn't have enough money for a move like this. But a nationalized rail, and especially bringing ticket costs back into the realm of sanity, would be a massive boost for the whole economy.

Absolutely fantastic news

Excellent, the shadow minister is absolutely correct 👏👏👏✊

So the people claiming it will be a bad idea are those who will lose the most. They are totally not bias

Hopefully this will make rail actually affordable because private ownership clearly doesn't.

Water and Rail is publicly owned in Scotland - Water quality is good compared with rUK - Rail needs more time to stabilise after poor privatisation - so we are talking England here

One more good reason to vote for Labour! We must renationalise other public services such as electricity and water too... Tories will never do this!

As a Regular Train travellers,the people object the Nationalisation don't understands that our train ticket is more expensive than Switzerland rail price or average restaurants in Switzerland.

Nationalisation is a good policy for more sectors.

Did anyone mention the water companies? The rest I'm not too concerned about, but rail and water have to be fixed.

Funny...I thought that was a Jeremy Corbyn pledge.

Prices to take the train from one city to another is just horrendous!

Good....hopefully prices for users will drop to a reasonable amount. Next should be water, gas and electricity.

Crazy. It's almost as if when you allow profit-making companies into a marketplace where consumers have literally no choice but to consume their product, that the companies rip them off charging unjustifiably high prices while providing a service that can only be described as inadequate. Shareholders make loads of money while their bosses lobby MPs trying to persuade them that actually they're doing a fab job and could be charging way more but they're super nice guys really and just want to help out. It's almost as if unregulated capitalism is LITERALLY ALWAYS nothing more than shameless profiteering which puts companies and shareholders before ordinary people.

Great news!!!

I remember the nationised water cos, no pressure from government to fix leaks and stand-pipes in the streets when there was a water shortage.

Changing the operator of the trains while leaving the ownership of rolling stock in private hands will achieve very little - Labour are leaving the most profitable part of rail to private companies. Its not nationalisation.