{"id":84253,"date":"2025-07-23T07:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84253"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:19:03","slug":"nationalise-water-yes-please-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/23\/nationalise-water-yes-please-you-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationalise water? Yes please, you say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that polls here and on my YouTube channel are not statistically valid. The sample is bound to be biased, but last night I posed the same questions on both sites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/22\/water-could-be-nationalised-for-less-than-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in response to a video on the nationalisation of water<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These were the findings:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-84254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.54-550x216.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.54-550x216.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.54-768x301.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.54-1536x602.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.54-600x235.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.54.png 1602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-84255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.27-550x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.27-550x225.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.27-768x314.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.27-1536x628.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.27-600x245.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-at-07.14.27.png 1658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They're not statistically valid, but the mood music is evident, and Labour is missing the mark by a mile, again.<\/p>\n<p>And that matters.<\/p>\n<p>If any political party ever set out to get everything wrong in government, Starmer's Labour Party appears to be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that polls here and on my YouTube channel are not statistically valid. The sample is bound to be biased, but last night I<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/23\/nationalise-water-yes-please-you-say\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,35,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84256,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84253\/revisions\/84256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}