Corbyn doesn't have to say anything on the subject because he's made Labour's position clear. The collapse of the construction and outsourcing giant Carillion is a textbook example of the Tory failed privatisation ideology in action. Outsourcing will be brought back in house. It cannot come soon enough.
German trade unions are more powerful than ours, their members better paid and the economy is more successful. The three are linked. Thatcher's war on trade unions was a war on the working class people of this country. But you voted for her so presumably you agree with her actions.
Simple task for you John. Define the term 'working class'.
Who in the Shadow Cabinet would possess the specialist knowledge and experience of industry to oversee an outfit like Carillion? Today's career politicians are just what it says on the tin and have little to no experience of life outside of education and politics. And that probably covers all political parties.
A critical problem of the progressive movement.
thing is the lads who worked for carrillion telent knew it was going belly up 3 years ago . My mate got out and got on at our place.
Classic Corbyn , he makes his party position "clear" and then his party, in this case Leeds Labour Council , does the opposite by giving Carillion preferred bidder status and then silence prevails. Just like his party's position is " clear " on selective schools , but some on his front bench do the opposite and send their kids to selective schools and silence prevails again. It's just the stench of socialist hypocrisy that fills the vacuum
The difference between the UK and German trade unions is like the difference between chalk and cheese . In the late 1960s and 1970s, when the communist led UK Trade Unions were fighting a battle to overturn democracy as well as demanding bigger and bigger pay rises , Germany's corporatist model explicitly bound up workers’ future with the country’s export economy. Their Unions saw the sense in moderate pay demands ( memories of rampant inflation and taking wages home in wheelbarrows in the 1920s are ingrained in the German psyche ) and kept out of politics. The German trade unions put their interests behind the interests of the companies and as a result their members benefited and that model continues to this day .
) instead of contributing our proper share of the burden. It's now 30 years since Mrs Thatcher resigned and successive govts have simply accelerated the decline of the armed forces and reduced the %age of gdp spending on defence. I suppose in a nutshell if you wanted a strong navy and armed forces then the NHS, the EU budget and the Benefits agencies would have had to tighten their belts and be prioritised less. Problem is the voice of the Armed Forces is a lot quieter than the strident voices of the above and a lot less politically sensitive too as the others are on the BBC and all over the press daily with their tales of woe and begging bowls held out. The strength of the Armed Forces used to be a vote winner when the wartime years were fresh in peoples memories (as was producing our own food btw ) but not any more. 
I bet the lads on the ground knew where the company was going wrong and probably told the management but the managers took no notice.
Agree with everything you say but you appear to be a Conservative voter ?
My take is that Alan is like many other voters. He despises the political class that shut down UK manufacturing in order to expand the socialist state and/or advance the corporate interests of multi-national companies. It should be about the working and middle class, not the bankers at one end or the non-workers (i.e. those who depend on government assistance and don’t work) on the other, and it is definetly not about immigrants (who should conform to our expectations, not vice-versa). It is a very rational position to take.