Dempsey referred to as rail privatisation ‘a racket that might make the mafia blush’
RMT assistant common secretary Eddie Dempsey has acquired a status for pithy explanations of how class is central to British politics. Now he’s proven he can clearly and successfully articulate the widespread sense arguments for public possession too.
Talking at a fringe at this 12 months’s TUC Congress, Dempsey argued that public possession is essential to each tackling the price of residing disaster and the local weather disaster. He instructed the assembly, “We are able to both have an power system that’s deliberate and designed to guard our planet and ship the power sources which might be wanted to run our nation, or we are able to have an funding alternative for a number of the most rapacious multinational companies that exist on our planet.
“We are able to both have a transport system that’s democratically run and owned within the pursuits of the folks on this nation – built-in, inexperienced and low cost, or we are able to an funding alternative for a few of these multinational companies that proceed to plunder our public providers, impoverish employees and decimate the ecology of our planet. However we are able to’t have each.”
Later within the assembly, he described the present privatisation of the railway as “a racket that might make the mafia blush”. He stated of the present authorities and its rail coverage, “They’re ready to ringfence and defend in any respect prices the gross income which might be being stripped out of our trade by multinational companies and despatched distant to tax havens, the place that cash by no means has any bearing on the social wants of the folks on this nation. That’s protected in any respect prices. It’s a shake down. It’s a racket that might the mafia blush. And our authorities proper now are complicit in that, and it’s completely corrupt.”
The TUC Congress is happening in Brighton from 18-20 October. Dempsey made these remarks at a fringe organised by the Marketing campaign Towards Local weather Change and the Greener Jobs Alliance.
Chris Jarvis is head of technique and improvement at Left Foot Ahead
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