For the hard of thinking

 Public ownership of, let's say, trains, means:

* Profits - if any - go back into the trains system, to make trains better, cheaper, nicer, more frequent, and thus kill the planet less than cars

* Because we own it, collectively, through our taxes, the money stays within the economy instead of going into the pockets of shareholders. We are all shareholders in a public utility, which trains would be. Lots and lots of money goes out of the UK from our train tickets (and bailouts, and tax breaks) into the pockets of... and the irony is... other sovereign states. We are therefore subsidising our continental friends and have achieved internationalist socialism, for them anyway.

Public ownership of, let's say, energy utilities:

* Profits, which there always are, can go into alternative energies: wind, tidal, solar, and whatnot. This would have two main effects:

1. Freeing us from the clutches of the oil/gas bastards

2. Oh yeah, and saving the planet we live on, a little bit.

* Because we'd own it, we'd be well on the way to energy self-sufficiency, and the money we'd therefore pay would not be bound to the planet-killing oil and gas bastards. The only way this could be a bad idea would be if:

1. You are a fucking oil and gas bastard yourself, or your mates are.

Essentially, if that is true then you are a thief who steals lives from poor people and cashes them in to make somebody so insanely rich that money is meaningless.

To paraphrase Stalin, who was a cunt himself: "Being £5 short of the rent is a tragedy. Having £5 billion is a statistic."

Why, and I know this is one of those questions that I keep repeating, but why the fuck would anyone want their country being whipped and kicked around by a few billionaires, a few big companies, a few nation-states who want to keep the Middle East occupied (in every sense)?

What's in it for us?

I suspect the answer is that the word 'us' is one that these regrettable wastes of protoplasm do not, will not understand. 

Ya know what, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's ideological logic traps against it.