ownership

Are We About To Remake The Broken Middle?

by Phillip Blond 6

ResPublica's Director, Phillip Blond, on why the debate is shifting towards ownership

"...The lack of self-critique on both left and right underpins the lack of economic vision and the dearth of transformative thinking. Where for instance will future British growth come from? Consider that the majority of our economic growth over the last ten years was in financial services, housing and the public sector, and this precisely is why radical public sector reform is a sine qua non of a transformative economic platform, and why today's news on the Conservatives' approach to co-operative ownership in the public sector is so exciting..."

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ResPublica's 'The Ownership State' Outlines The New Centre Ground

by Editor 6

Radical New Proposals For Public Service Innovation Through Employee Ownership Adopted By Conservatives

There now exists a broad consensus on extending employee ownership throughout the public sector, driven by ResPublica's ideas in 'The Ownership State.' The Conservatives have shown that they understand the innovative and radical potential of co-operative public sector ownership to transform for the better our struggling public services. The Labour Party have also embraced the rhetoric - we await the development of the detail - of what they refer to as 'the mutual moment.' An important new centre-ground is forming; an Ownership Debate that promises to help us create better public services more efficiently - and extend the beneficial effects of ownership throughout society.

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Review the sell-off of great British companies

by Will Hutton and Phillip Blond 1

ResPublica's Phillip Blond on defending value-driven capitalism

Britain has never taken the issue of ownership seriously enough under governments of every political hue. The story is that we are open for business including foreign hostile takeovers, whatever the cost to the national interest. As evinced by English football, our watchdogs are poodles, blind to the well-being of our great businesses, the wider community they serve and deaf to the intentions of new owners.

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The Ownership State

by Phillip Blond 10

Read the report that started the mutualism debate

"The Ownership State" has started a battle between Labour and the Tories over mutualism, with both parties announcing policies to remake the public sector along the lines of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership.

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