Since privatisation the capacity for water storage in the UK has decreased due to water companies selling state assets, risks are being taken with our power needs and mobile phones make children a target for crime and the potential harm of microwaves on a childs brain is one big corporate experiment.
Given that ‘New Labour’ are now working for the Neo cons, & to think they once claimed to stand for the people of this country, should we lobby parliament to buy back our utilities and say ‘I’m sorry, we made a mistake, Thatcher convinced us selling off our countries assets to America (the main shareholders of UK Ltd) would make things better, sadly, we can’t trust big business with our lives, Telcom tower needs to belong to the post office again.’?
NB; As the inventor of The Fast Dial Telephone (Not to be confused with speed dial, Windows or I Phones ‘no stylus’ nonsense.) I confirm my position (renationalise BT + our utilities) in the interest of propriety.
I do think you have a point.
No need to nationalise in the 1970’s terms, but certainly create and enforce some form of national strategies for anyone that wants to play in these businesses.
water is in a highly visible mess, we all know that.
Power, i’m not sure we can trust people who are interested in short term gain to plan such long turn alternative strategies.
telecoms, i can talk more about this as i own a telecoms business.
Once again the infrastructure is failing us. The freeing up the last mile has just disenfanchised BT from trying to maintain it. They have just moved it to an seperate company. OpenReach cannot afford, not do they have the will, to address the copper issues.
Whitehall claims they understand the need for national comunications infrastructure but there is nothing in any incentives to ensure the country is wired up.
I’ve had a few letters printed in telecoms mags about this:
i think we are moving again to a market where people have to migrate to the cities. more and more we reply on broadband and network for business to work. How does this help the people who are stuck at 512K in the countryside, who’s going to have the drive to sort that out ? The countryside almost caught up over the last 20 years, but once again it will be sidelined because the comms infrastructure cannot cope, just like the roads could not cope in the past.
I won’t repeat all my arguements here, but , yes i agree, its about time someone grabbed the nettle and sorted this stuff out.
January 18th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
No.
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January 18th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
No way, back down the pits with ya.
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January 18th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Anytime you nationalize something, you will screw it up.
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January 18th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
No way jose.
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January 18th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
yes I think it is. I do not like the idea of foreign countries controlling our what is our essential services bin the case of water our lifeblood
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January 18th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
No way.It would cost the taxpayer billions.There is not one nationalised business that’s any good at doing what they should be doing, ie making money.If anyone thinks different, then name me one.It’s 2007 not 1907.Just remember, if you take more out of a business than what you put in, it aint going to last long.The easy paydays of some nationalised industries have gone.The dinosaurs are dead my friend.
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January 18th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
I do think you have a point.
No need to nationalise in the 1970’s terms, but certainly create and enforce some form of national strategies for anyone that wants to play in these businesses.
water is in a highly visible mess, we all know that.
Power, i’m not sure we can trust people who are interested in short term gain to plan such long turn alternative strategies.
telecoms, i can talk more about this as i own a telecoms business.
Once again the infrastructure is failing us. The freeing up the last mile has just disenfanchised BT from trying to maintain it. They have just moved it to an seperate company. OpenReach cannot afford, not do they have the will, to address the copper issues.
Whitehall claims they understand the need for national comunications infrastructure but there is nothing in any incentives to ensure the country is wired up.
I’ve had a few letters printed in telecoms mags about this:
i think we are moving again to a market where people have to migrate to the cities. more and more we reply on broadband and network for business to work. How does this help the people who are stuck at 512K in the countryside, who’s going to have the drive to sort that out ? The countryside almost caught up over the last 20 years, but once again it will be sidelined because the comms infrastructure cannot cope, just like the roads could not cope in the past.
I won’t repeat all my arguements here, but , yes i agree, its about time someone grabbed the nettle and sorted this stuff out.
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January 19th, 2010 at 12:26 am
We were always told that WE owned the nationalised businesses before they were privatised. So why weren’t we paid when we sold them? No - we can’t re-nationalise our utilities because government [national and local] employees are incapable of running businesses - they have an attitude and productivity problem!
Now, if we were all offered shares in the utilities and had a say in how the profits were reinvested in our name then that would be nationalisation for the people instead of for the government! I would want net profits after equipment and plant had been fully serviced and updated to be used to reduce the prices to the owners - us - the consumers. All pie in the sky I suppose, but then my kids tell me I’m something akin to a Marxist!
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January 19th, 2010 at 12:36 am
Absolutely not. I’ve got worthless shares in all of these industries. My accountant has told me to hang on to them for the next hundred years and see if they’re worth anything.
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January 19th, 2010 at 1:04 am
Do what you want - things will never get any cheaper.
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