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My letter in the Guardian: ‘Caroline Lucas and I doubt Labour’s rail re-nationalisation claim’

So, a letter from 30 Labour prospective parliamentary candidates calls on Ed Miliband to make public ownership of the railways a key part of Labour policy. After many years of being in government, sitting and watching the privatised rail monopolies rake in huge profits, is Labour about to do something? Or at least to "consider" doing something? The British public have been down this road before with Labour and they have been let down time and again. Caroline Lucas has a bill in the Commons right now calling for exactly this policy. This is a flagship Green party policy, central to our agenda. Labour is simply stumbling falteringly toward something that voters can already plump for in unadulterated form by voting Green.
Rupert Read National Green party transport spokesperson Caroline Lucas MP

Read it here: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/05/labour-rail-nationalisation

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