x-ray wrote:
Yes, Jeremy is going to shake his money tree and make it all happen. I mean, labour did such a good job privatising railtrack didn't they ???
new labour did that.
And the east coast mainline ran better under state management than it did under private profit, in fact the rail system was built up by the state after the second world war, primarily because it was bombed to hell by Nazis and private profit didn't want to rebuild it - so our taxes paid for the infrastructure and eventually (with more money than the nationalised railway ever got) subsidise the entire thing.
I mean, who's paying for this new quick line from the south to the north? Private companies? naaa that's the tax payer.
If you believe people should profit through the human needs of others, power, water, travel, communication, then so be it, personally I find it distasteful because I don't believe there should be private profit in basic human needs.......including prisons, heathcare, security and so on.
Should we privatise the british army and sell them as soldiers of fortune?
And please don't tell me that private companies and competition improve peoples lives, because invariably these private companies go cap in hand to the state for funding / relaxing regulations.