Can Brown Give Us Economic Equality

StephenMilne Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 10:35:07 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

The Tories pretended to democratise the stock market and failed miserably but a leading stockbroker has given advice to how Labour can snatch this agenda



Gordon Brown's speech at Labour's 2005 conference talked about creating a shareholder democracy. This may make some on the left of the party balk at such talk.

But if you accept a capitalist system, albeit seeking to use its proceeds to make society fairer, you are still accepting capitalism so it makes sense to me that a Labour government should seek to involve the masses in the system as its owners.

The Tories promised this through privatisation but failed to deliver and this piece is decent advice for Brown's team


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Re: Can Brown Give Us Economic Equality (#1)

by Mark Wadsworth on Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 12:20:29 PM GMT

links don't seem to work


Re: Can Brown Give Us Economic Equality (#2)

by Glass House on Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 12:35:21 PM GMT

There's an extra "http://" at the start of each link.

On topic, I am disappointed by some of the responses over at Comment is Free. Surely helping working people to gain a stake in companies is an incredibly empowering thing, and something which any Labour member should support?

I know there's all sorts of little problems and technical problems to get around (as there is with any policy but, in principlem, what could be wrong with this?


Re: Can Brown Give Us Economic Equality (#3)

by alexhilton on Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 12:40:03 PM GMT

llinks now fixed


Can Brown Give Us Economic Equality | 3 comments (3 topical)