Even liberals like Churchill backed railway nationalization in 1918.

Evidence

At a campaign stop in Dundee in December 1918, even the liberal Winston Churchill advocated nationalization of the railways, endorsing the proposal of the railway nationalization society that the government acquire the railway stocks. … Aft er the armistice, the Ministry of Reconstruction presented wideranging plans for public spending while, as we shall see in chapter 3, the British government called the Sankey committee to discuss the permanent nationalization of coal. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 196

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the tree/commodity system question and to how far the postwar consensus reached; also connects to the modern Labour-left nostalgia for public ownership that austerity ideology exists to defeat. — connects to: Even orthodox economists in 1919 backed coal nationalization as efficient — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1669

Broader Connections

• Even orthodox economists in 1919 backed coal nationalization as efficient #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1669