Fixing England’s water isn’t just the right thing to do – it can be the start of Labour’s fightback | Clive Lewis

IIn the wake of a brutal group of local elections results, deputies from all over the Labor Party are trying To determine the error that happened. For me, it is very clear that this was not a coincidence: it was the exactly expected result of my party’s approach to the UK reform. While the party moves forward and is preparing to counter the reform in the future elections, it is assumed that we are learning the right lessons.

From getting rid of climate obligations to Disabled framing As part of the unpopular poor, he has not yet challenged the work of the global view of reform – has issued legitimacy. However, there are some amazing areas in which the work works no Copy of reform: Public Ownership of Water for one.

Although they are keen to overcome them for immigration, we seem to be significantly hesitant in doing the same for the ownership of water, though High levels of support For such a policy. The Reform Party – no one lets the principle object to the path of populism – now Re -invention As a hero of public infrastructure, with a plan that will see governmental and British pension funds possess companies that provide water and energy. This is the playing book for right -wing people: ideological cohesion. If opinion polls are well, claim it.

General anger is barely surprising. Its private water companies have The system drained dry. Since privatization, they paid Billions of profits For shareholders with debt accumulation, contaminated rivers and neglecting infrastructure. Sewer water spills In the waterways it became routine. The tanks were Sold. His executive wage Rise. And still, Prices rise For the rest of us. The organizers – the supposed guard of the public interest – have acted Like the defenders.

As the issues go, this could have been written for reform. The state of English water moves to something deep – something gut. It has become a symbol of a forged economy, a failed organizational state and a political class that cannot or cannot be suitable. In the eyes of many, the system is corrupt, the beneficiaries are protected, and no one in power is ready to take it.

However, the reform is part of The same neoliberal project That caused and benefits from this distress 40 years. Behind both of them Party The private ownership of water companies are the same types of powers that have transformed the basics of life – housing, energy, and water – into speculative gambling chips, where the house always wins and always loses the audience. The Labor Party must compete for this land by hitting their hypocrisy unabated, and blame the conservatives for being architects in everything, with a real alternative.

It is an open goal, as the audience screams for the promised bold change in our statement. What they got instead was Law (special measures) Destruct measure like his name. It is described as a prominent intervention, in fact, it fell with all the weight of the wet sponge. Feargal SharkeyThe rock star has turned into the active river and the actual conscience of the water corridors in the nation, and its rejection as a lost opportunity to drive. “Nothing but the stadium policy denies as a policy.” books. “Since when I rearrange the Deckchands chairs, I failed to advance an existing legislation, at the age of 30, as it has advanced?”

While the THEMER WATER swings on the brink of collapse – under the reckless financing model – the government had another opportunity to act. To rewrite the rules of the game. But again, he decreased. Instead of a general conversation about restoring the basic infrastructure, we got another review. This Sir John Connev leads, a Former ruler From the Bank of England, whose professional life indicates that at home, with the idea that the economy must manage the interest of “wealth creators”: banks, private stocks, financial -Orthodox speculators themselves This chaos was created.

Decisively, it was public ownership I was excluded Before you start the review.

This was not a coincidence. The calculated waiver-the decision to maintain the current financial situation was instead of challenging it and surrendering to market the doctrine, extracting companies and hitting prices. By excluding it, the government indicates that it is more comfortable changing the edges than challenging the system that caused the crisis in the first place.

And when this system It seems that it includes collusion With private water companies and Comfortable links With foreign investment companies like Blackrock, it is no wonder that people feel closed. It is no wonder that the reformist voters feel justified in condemning the Labor Party as just another institution party that protects the powerful people. What is the other conclusion in which the Labor Party is in the continuation of the same technocratic policy that made us here? It seems that the government is only run for the interest of giants, wealthy companies and financial companies. How to conclude the government of the Labor Party that the retirees and the disabled It must be sacrificed To maintain a financial base created to ensure that wealth is preserved for those who already have?

The work should be re -connected by understanding that the public is not a coordinator for the abstract economy. They are the economy. Until we remember this, our current approach is not just a bad strategy – it is bad for democracy. Because when political voters who work closely with the same types of companies have seen the economy or were disbursed during the epidemic, confidence collapses. Without bold, people first, democracy ideas deepen ideas, exhaustion The risks are to become part of the problem you promised to fix it.

Four years of the upcoming general elections, there is still a clear path forward. The Labor Party must re -discover its courage and redirect it on economic -public democracy that responds and enables societies. The evidence is overwhelming that voters are looking for a meaningful change, and nothing more than the same wearing the language of pragmatism.

The alternative, with the results of the local elections starkly, continues the electoral punishment from voters from the uncomfortable promises and the principles at risk. If the work really wants to present it The promise of national renewalYou should give up the hollow discourse from the “difficult options” and truly embrace the transformational options – starting with water. This means More than just traditional promotionWe need public ownership, as workers, clients and new strategic authorities possess the extended and running service, and the Citizen Association, which gives the public a real opinion in the form and structure of English water in the future. Because Nigel Varage offers people a agenda for fake reform. If the Labor Party wants to hit it, it must present the real thing.