With my emphasis added, Liam Byrne tells the Guardian:
A total of £16bn will be saved by pressing ahead with the sale of public assets from April. Assets for sale will include the Dartford crossing, the Tote, the student loans portfolio, Ordnance Survey and the Land Registry. In some cases ministers will wait for assets to recover their value after the recession. "This is not a firesale," Byrne says. "But this is stuff we will bring to the market when the price is right over the next two to three years." Assets such as British Waterways will be reorganised as mutuals.
Still, the last bit is interesting, if an odd place to start when the Government owns the banks.
But the highlighted bit is outrageous. Why this not front-page news? And how do we vote against it? By organising for ourselves, that's how.
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Why isn't it front-page news? Well, it was front-page news when it was first announced, several weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteWhere? This rather middle-class story would have led Newsnight and everything on Radio Four if any newspaper had ever paid it any serious attention. When did that happen?
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