Image: Greggs, King Street in Hammersmith. WikiCommons.
Last month a young Labour Party member asked Jeremy Corbyn about his thoughts on nationalising essential public services such as Wetherspoons and Greggs. The room chortled, then applauded. Jeremy gave a scripted answer about Greggs being a living wage employer and quickly segued into an amicable stub speech about housing and energy. “Corbyn says that nationalising rail, mail and utilities are his priorities, but crucially did not rule out nationalising Greggs” said the official Young Labour Twitter account. Imminently, conservatives were in full blown moral panic; “they can't nationalise Greggs, it's a private company!” “What if they don't want to be nationalised?!?” “Keep your filthy socialist hands off our pasties” chimed a thousand Kremlin run social media accounts with EU/hammer and sickle flags as avatars.
Last week the plucky young sparks at Progress took a break from running the website of a faction-free-slate to pen an opinion piece about why nationalising Greggs is the Wrong Thing™ to do and young people can't be trusted to have their own in-jokes.
