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"How exactly would a Labour government nationalise the entire rail industry without breaching EU competition rules?"
They don't forbid it, to assert that they do is to misunderstand the rules.
This is very good: How exactly would a Labour government nationalise the entire rail industry without breaching EU competition rules?
Dammit-
I guess we could go around in circles forever, each saying the other has misunderstood the rules.
The EU rules would allow the introduction of state-owned operators as competitors within the rail industry. They would not allow for a state monopoly over the entire rail industry because there is by definition no competition there. These are entirely different and most on the left (including Corbyn, to get back to the point) believe that the former would be an insufficient fix.
The EU is openly pursuing a programme of increased liberalisation, so I think it's reasonable to assume worst case scenarios in respect of its opposition to sweeping renationalisation.
spiderpie
I guess I misinterpreted you, although it's been a common claim in this thread the past couple of years.
I haven't actually read the whole report on this but from what I've read I wouldn't say they've been debunked. What has been debunked is the Troika's favourite strategy of pushing continued austerity on struggling EU economies.
Now you could of course argue that the UK is not at risk of the same full-scale economic meltdown as Portugal, Spain, Greece etc but I think that would be missing the bigger picture and would certainly contradict any principles of international solidarity.
How exactly would a Labour government nationalise the entire rail industry without breaching EU competition rules?
Edit: hit send too soon.