my quote's not working at the moment, so i'll just have to copy and paste:
"Theres only one way forward - true socialism. Take back everything the was nationalised and put it back under state control - banks, public transport, energy markets, the whole lot. The government will invest 'profits' back into the state rather than some corporation's offshore bank account so we can make real headway with education, hospitals, roads etc. The state bank will offer a high standard of socialised housing so that people don't NEED to buy property, though if people DO want to buy property, 100% mortgages will be offered at reasonable interest rates so that owning your home is not out of the reach of anyone (providing you work of course, the lazy arsed dole-scum can $%&#ing rot).
Anyway, theres my hat firmly into the political arena."
I don't think that'll work. While I agree that several things which were privatised should be renationalised (e.g. trains), and stuff like PFI should just be plain abandoned as it's the worst of both worlds (govt shoulders the risk, while the private companies get to keep the profits), I don't think we need pure socialism to make things a lot fairer. you could certainly make things a lot fairer by just having sensible policies, and stricter penalties for dudes at the top of companies screwing everyone else over etc.
Plus I don't think that 100% mortgages thing would work, either- one of the reasons for the property boom was too-easily available credit which pushed prices ever higher.
