funding Labour manifesto promises

trisher, all I can say is that as a London and then outer London commuter the trains I travelled in were unreliable, late and dirty antiquated old stock that should have been replaced decades before.

I travel now between York and Oxford, 2 different lines and also Oxford to France and Germany and I have never had any problem with travelling with 2 different rail franchises. The trains now running are modern, and they run to time. They are not constantly cancelled because the train or the one in front has broken down,

As I said, I agree with you that the railways should not be run as they are now, but there are many other ways of running a public interest industry without it being run by the state, which has a very poor management and investment history.

M0nica you have been lucky. The percentage of trains arriving on time for some companies is less than 50%. And none manage 100% the highest figure is for trains arriving within 15 mins of expected time which is in the region of 90%.
dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/
If these are good performance figures I dread to think what bad ones must be like.

This is how our NHS will be funded
Our social care will be funded
Our infrastructure will be built
Our public services supported
Our country will be saved

They could, of course, just cancel HS2.

so much simpler

Trains running on time? Not in my experience.

This is big. 163 economists and academics have backed Labour's spending plans in that well known Trotskyist rag - the Financial Times.

Can you give a link, please, Whitwavemark2

My problem is not the policies but the delivery. There has not been an economically competent Labour government in my lifetime and the industries that I would welcome back into community ownership I do not want to see back in state ownership because they were so badly run and inefficient last time they were state run.

Labour will collect taxes properly from the likes of amazon etc & many of the newspapers which is why they loathe Corbyn, the daily mail owner for example, is a non-dom plus has offshore wealth, ditto Sky news & others, that's why you won't get a balanced appraisal in most of the press.
state ownership is better value because we don't have to pay shareholders, so that money can go to front line services. Labour managed the economy fine, but last time they bailed out the banks, which most agree was a good idea