Sentences with phrase «into public ownership»

Taking the railway back into public ownership would take money from the poor and give it to the better off.

By 1951 about 20 % of the British economy had been taken into public ownership.

The Government will take the business from its current shareholders into public ownership.

I think it's terrific, because it's about the character passing into public ownership, and there's nothing more flattering than that for a writer.

This is a company's first move into public ownership.

After the failing bank was nationalised and its shares taken into public ownership in February 2008, the government set up a scheme to determine whether any compensation was due to shareholders.

An historic and iconic portrait of England's Elizabeth I has been «saved» and put into public ownership for the first time in its history.

Their transfer into public ownership from the Forbes of Pitsligo Collection settled # 631,600 of tax.

In the last half - century and more, we have found that to take an industry into public ownership in no way democratizes it — quite the contrary.

If Jeremy said we should take the moon into public ownership Smith would say he agrees pretending that you can be Left and vote for him too but I don't do fake — I vote for the real thing!

The troubled East Coast rail mainline should be brought back into public ownership permanently, Unite, the country's largest union, said today...

Although about a third of British industry was taken into public ownership after the Second World War, and remained so until the 1980s, the right of the party were questioning the validity of expanding on this objective by the late 1950s.

Bring privatised public services, industries and utilities back into public ownership under democratic control, with compensation only on the basis of proven need.

The government took Northern Rock into public ownership in February 2008 as a result of its financial problems caused by the subprime mortgage crisis.

Corbyn said he would take each line back into public ownership when the franchise expired and improve Network Rail assets through a national investment bank, partly funded by quantitative easing.

The main vehicles for adding to core collections are through the generosity of the Art Fund, and the Acceptance in Lieu (AiL) scheme, which offsets the transfer of art into public ownership against death duties.

Arts Council England announced on Wednesday that it had been accepted into public ownership in lieu of a tax liability.

The Bill also includes provisions allowing the government to take financial institutions into public ownership.

Oh aye, and she forgot to state at Aslef Conference that Labour would take railways back into public ownership!

[63] Northern Rock, the first British bank in 150 years to suffer a bank run, had been taken into public ownership in 2008, then divided into two entities on 1 January 2010 — the other half being Northern Rock.

Once the bridges are transferred into public ownership and debts are repaid, the Liberal Democrats say they will abolish the tolls.

[5] He was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.

Nationalisation in the 1990s was rejected by Labour because it was believed to be too costly to bring major public utilities like water, gas or rail back into public ownership.

The transport and travel union, the TSSA, also announced that it would back Corbyn on the grounds that he would campaign to «end the austerity quagmire» and that he has backed its calls to take the railways back into public ownership.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are calling on all parties in the National Assembly to support the Liberal Democrat policy of scrapping the Severn Bridge tolls when the bridges come back into public ownership, as they lead a debate on the issue today.

Figures published today show how three political parties intend to use the Severn Bridge tolls as a «cash - cow» once they come back into public ownership.

Even on the issue of bringing the railways back into public ownership — a hugely popular policy — Labour has flunked it.»

She was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.

In the «Keep Our Services Public» session, Frank Dobson MP said the privatised utilities have failed to invest sufficiently but dividend payments booming — he called for a London referendum on taking Thames Water back into public ownership, while Tosh McDonald, from ASLEF, echoed him and said it is time to speak positively about public ownership.

Corbynism will offer the Red; it will be enormously refreshing to at last have an opposition that will make a stand against the savagery of austerity and seek to take back key strategic industries such as the railways into public ownership.

He and Angela also support bringing our railways back into public ownership.»

Better still, like two thirds of the UK population, I want rail to be taken into public ownership.

Gordon Brown has given one of the strongest indications yet that Northern Rock will not be taken into public ownership.

Radicalism would have meant taking railways back into public ownership, for example, or challenging the City's grip on the economy.

Isn't it strange that Harriet Harman was never heard saying polls have shown over and over again that the majority of voters want the railways taken back into public ownership or that they think that local authorities should be responsible for schools?

Finally, she thanked her supporters and campaign workers, with special thanks to rail unions ASLEF and the TSSA who had nominated her, in the form of a ringing endorsement of the 13 year old repeated conference commitment to take the railways back into public ownership.

Labour should end all privatisation and commence the process of reversing privatisation by bringing rail and Royal Mail back into public ownership and control.

Mr Corbyn promised to «take rail mail and water back into public ownership» and warned tax dodgers that a «Labour government is coming after you.

«The study also found that leftwing policies — such as the energy price freeze, and greater potential to bring railways back into public ownership — were some of the most popular put forward by Miliband, but that there was a lack of a coherent overall narrative.»

«This debate gives the campaign great momentum and the Welsh Liberal Democrats will work tirelessly in and out of Government to ensure that when The Severn Crossings come back into public ownership, the tolls are scrapped.»

A public appeal by the Art Fund and the Royal Museums Greenwich has succeeded in raising the # 10.3 million needed to bring the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I into public ownership for the first time.

The upshot of my report is a more realistic estimate of about # 24 billion for the parts of the private companies worth taking into public ownership: a lot of money, but still only a third of what we spent rescuing Royal Bank of Scotland.