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Andy Burnham has been careful to use the term 'public control' rather than 'public ownership'. Heres a current serving minister boasting that Starmer has increased public control over the water industry (& Andy will therefore continue this policy) Change, right?

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Andy Burnham says Britain is paying too much for the basics and promises “more public control” over water, energy and transport. That sounds fine until you remember one rather important fact. The price of water and electricity is already controlled by the state. Ofgem sets the energy price cap. Ofwat sets price controls for water companies. Regulators already decide what private monopoly utilities are allowed to charge, what returns they can make, what investment plans they can claim for, and how much of the burden gets pushed onto households and businesses. So what exactly does “more public control” mean? Because if Burnham means more regulation, we have already tried that. It has failed. Bills are still too high, rivers are still polluted, infrastructure is still creaking, and private investors are still extracting from assets the public cannot live without. The problem is not a lack of public control. The problem is ownership. You cannot properly control a monopoly utility while leaving the monopoly in private hands and pretending the regulator is a substitute for democracy. This is where Burnham’s fiscal confusion matters too. He talks about giving people breathing space, but refuses to say the obvious: a sovereign government is not a household. Within the real limits of labour, materials, energy, skills and inflation, Britain can build and own what it needs. The real fiscal rule should be simple. If the public pays, the public owns. Not “public control” while private firms keep the pipes, cables, profits and ransom note. Public ownership. Public investment. Public accountability. Anything less is just the same failed model wearing a northern accent. #weownit #andy

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