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When I said I didn't think the changes would be revolutionary, I didn't for a moment think that anyone would read that as meaning the kind of revolution where the state gets overthrown. I meant profound and rapid change - a bit like, erm, the industrial revolution. It's figurative language, innit.
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I think the re-nationalisation of energy is not revolutionary. I think the plan to align renationalised sectors to a green industrial ‘revolution’ is the exciting bit and the bit that’s being campaigned. The message is more ‘why’ and less ‘what’.
i.e. taking over Stagecoach bus services isn’t a big deal. Providing free bus services is.
^ this is actually a Green (rather than Labour) policy, but hopefully you get the idea.
miro_o
Branding, the industrial revolution is a British (Manc) thing that is almost universally thought of as wonderful and the best of British ingenuity (dispite all the actual problems of pollution, slavery etc they went along with it) so saying it's like that but with all green stuff sounds a lot different than revolution sans industrial.