Speaking after the Guardian revealed the British public have been paying a “privatisation premium” of £250 per household per year since 2010, he described the mass privatisation of UK industry as a “failed experiment”.
“This report shows that privatisation has been one of the key drivers of the cost-of-living crisis and growing inequality … the Conservatives were the architects of this failed experiment, but the Labour government has done virtually nothing to change course.”
Or, perhaps, we should take him at his word? Britain’s problems are less than a £ a day per household. Should be easy enough to solve, no?
And the much bigger levies on bills for green crap are fine of course. No need to mention those.
One thought is that the Blair labour government chose not to ‘change course’ during their time in power because many of them remembered just how shit these ‘nationalised’ industries were, due to the incompetence of successive governments and their failure to invest in them over the course of decades.
Todays’ labour party MP’s are mostly too young to remember…….
And have no need to fear being subjected to them.
Also because, in the 90’s, there weren’t any voters young enough to be fooled into supporting nationalisation. Because people remembered how shit the 70’s were.
Our world class education system has produced millions of new gullibles since then.
And the nationalisation of “British Steel” (Jingye Steel UK Ltd) showed there’s not much left to nationalise. The taxpayer now owns a horribly unprofitable blast furnace which will never turn a profit because the British government’s energy policies have made that impossible. It’s as much use to us as digital watches are to cats, because a blast furnace is not a “steel industry”, just an expensive and obsolete stranded asset. It would have been substantially cheaper just to nationalise the workforce and make them civil servants.
Zack is aiming for the Young Gullibles though – the typical Green Party voter is a 20 year old girl at Yooni who thinks we can run a modern 21st century economy on niceness and good intentions. The solution here is to simply ban Green parties and jail their leaders – as Karl Popper taught us, we don’t need to tolerate people who will use our tolerance, our civil liberty, to organise for the destruction of our country.
It may have been Thucydides (or Herodotus or another of those Greek coves) who pointed out that wars only become possible when there are too few old people left who can remember the horrors of the last one. Much the same is true of socialist governments.
So about half the cost per household of the foreign aid budget over that period.
““We say water, energy and transport must be in public hands, and hands off our health service. This is the way to create a fairer, greener future for all and bring down bills.””
The cheapest, greenest form of transport is coach travel according to government data. Almost completely 100% run without government involvement (unlike buses and trains).
A bunch of us went on a coach trip from East Yorkshire to London to see the Abba Voyage show last year. The coach was very impressive and comfortable. I remember grotty school buses back in the 1970s having the words ‘Luxury Travel’ on the back being a bit of a joke. This one was very different.
Bus/coach travel has markets. You need about £200K to buy a new coach and someone with a PSV. Then you can kit it out for more passengers, or having tables etc. Run experiments, see what works.
How many of those industries were initiated by government? As opposed to being post hoc nationalised? None, that’s how many.
I know never to trust anyone called Jeremy. Is the same true for Zack?
Which other names does the rule apply to? Piers?
David
Yeah Piers for sure, plus Polly, mohamad (spelling of your choice), Narinder, Yasmin, Nick (Clegg / Stern), Ed (Millibrain / Davey) cont. p94……..
And whenever this Zack bloke is mentioned you should always add: real name David Paulden.If it’s ok for Tommy…….
I believe the real name of David Paulden is “Literally Adolf Hitler”. Or am I confusing him with Donald J Trump?
I cannot believe that any rational person who, having been exposed to any part of the public sector, believes giving it control over nationalised industries is a sensible way forward.
As far as I can see, this is just the old, bogus argument that every pound paid to shareholders is a pound which would otherwise have been saved.
The left keeps falling for the zero sum fallacy, as well as the fallacy which says that if we didn’t do one bad thing we would have done things perfectly rather than have done a different bad thing.