The country has been made worse off for the benefit of a tiny few. It’s totally irrational for most people to support this ideology, but it’s the left that continually gets ridiculed as lofty idealists for opposing this nonsense.
Thatcher sold it as ‘share owning democracy’ when she sold of the silver, knowing full well that within the blink of an eye the shares would be in the hands of the city who have then milked these once great state assets for every last penny at the expense of the consumer and their employees.
I’m very conservative, very sceptical of government and state, and even to me it seems a no-brainer that national infrastructure should be publicly operated. I can’t see how anyone can claim to have our nation’s interests at heart and allow overseas investors, particularly ones owned by foreign states, to own huge chunks of our public services.
I remember a guy at work telling me once how Nationalisation was a disaster, how I was too young to remember but he remembered when getting a new phone line could take weeks, trains were constantly late, buses were unpleasant and dirty, and customer service was non existant. Thank God privatisation sorted all that out eh?
The guardian🤦🏻
God help us if we go back to the state ownership of the 70’s when the unions ran the country and we constantly on strike as they demanded more money for less hours
bit rich of the guardian to come out with this, when they ridiculed Corbyn for wanting to renationalise and supported Blairs continued privatisation policy.
Privatisation was always to allow the wealthy to profit out of the ‘essential’ services and infrastructure rather than any real belief that it would be more efficient. Look at the water companies, borrowing money to pay out as dividends, you really couldn’t believe this would be allowed to happen, but absolutely nothing gets in the way of profit even when it is borderline criminal.
The guardian only has a view when they are sure the winds of societal approval are firmly in their sails. The guardian is a pile of fresh steaming Diarrhoea
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The country has been made worse off for the benefit of a tiny few. It’s totally irrational for most people to support this ideology, but it’s the left that continually gets ridiculed as lofty idealists for opposing this nonsense.
Thatcher sold it as ‘share owning democracy’ when she sold of the silver, knowing full well that within the blink of an eye the shares would be in the hands of the city who have then milked these once great state assets for every last penny at the expense of the consumer and their employees.
I’m very conservative, very sceptical of government and state, and even to me it seems a no-brainer that national infrastructure should be publicly operated. I can’t see how anyone can claim to have our nation’s interests at heart and allow overseas investors, particularly ones owned by foreign states, to own huge chunks of our public services.
I remember a guy at work telling me once how Nationalisation was a disaster, how I was too young to remember but he remembered when getting a new phone line could take weeks, trains were constantly late, buses were unpleasant and dirty, and customer service was non existant. Thank God privatisation sorted all that out eh?
The guardian🤦🏻
God help us if we go back to the state ownership of the 70’s when the unions ran the country and we constantly on strike as they demanded more money for less hours
bit rich of the guardian to come out with this, when they ridiculed Corbyn for wanting to renationalise and supported Blairs continued privatisation policy.
Privatisation was always to allow the wealthy to profit out of the ‘essential’ services and infrastructure rather than any real belief that it would be more efficient. Look at the water companies, borrowing money to pay out as dividends, you really couldn’t believe this would be allowed to happen, but absolutely nothing gets in the way of profit even when it is borderline criminal.
The guardian only has a view when they are sure the winds of societal approval are firmly in their sails. The guardian is a pile of fresh steaming Diarrhoea