When the Tories privatised our national infrastructure and services they pretended that government is too inefficient to run these things properly, but now they're being run by foreign governments!
It’s bizarre that so much of what you’ve written about how the country’s infrastructure should be run and maintained by and for the benefit of the British public is essentially the entire argument the Tories used to persuade us to vote for Brexit! It’s apparently absolutely fine for foreign governments and private companies to benefit financially from our essential services but we must have control over our laws and borders. Stupid doesn’t even cover it.
I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory but it looks like the Kremlin have infiltrated our government since Johnson was bought,sorry brought to power?
I never claimed that British Leyland wasn't in big trouble before the nationalisation, however you'd have to whitewash history to pretend that the cuts and hasty sell-off that Thatcher imposed ended up being good for it.
What it needed was strategic investment, not massive cutbacks followed by a string of private operators, several of which were clearly more interested in asset stripping than returning the company to profitability.
Was it the Tories? Or was it the Black Nobility, Temple Bar and the Club of Rome nudging, niggling and nagging the British government to impoverish the nation because they have horrific global and totalitarian intentions?
'In the nuclear celebratory mood of the moment, there is little patience or political will for sober voices to discuss the reality that new nuclear power is actually many decades away from having any measurable impact on climate change – if at all.' UK PM Rishi Sunak blames Putin for 'weaponising' global energy supplies, saying it has caused 'household bills to soar'. End of Oppenheimer dream on nuclear energy dream. Although successful France on nuclear energy. About 63% of France's electricity comes from nuclear power. Niger (French Orano) delivers most of the uranium used to power these nuclear power plants. If Niger bans Uranium export to France, where will all that Uranium come from? French embassy in Niger has been attacked.
The railways are reasonably easy to unravel at the moment as since COVID all of the passenger franchises have been affectively cancelled and they are now operating on a cost plus type of contract where the ORR set a minimum service level and then pay the companies a fixed amount to operate said services so they are already in public hands as all the risk has been taken away by the DoT - Network rail is fully back in puublic hands but has its own hands tied by the DoT as to what it can charge for access, it also inherited a mountain of debt and deferred maintenance from Railtrack when it went bust - the only part of privatisation that has actually worked as intended were the independant freight companies and the ROSCOs which freed up the operators from being tied to state fundung to finance new stock.
Do you have / know of a really granular list of who owns what - e.g all the individual water companies, rail companies etc? Your table at the top is a good starting point, but it's a bit top level.
Is it true that the German government now owns part of British Rail? If so perhaps the British government could buy it back, and the Germans could use the proceeds to buy back the Deutsche Bundesbahn, which has been in steady decline since it too was privatised. A win-win transaction!
It’s bizarre that so much of what you’ve written about how the country’s infrastructure should be run and maintained by and for the benefit of the British public is essentially the entire argument the Tories used to persuade us to vote for Brexit! It’s apparently absolutely fine for foreign governments and private companies to benefit financially from our essential services but we must have control over our laws and borders. Stupid doesn’t even cover it.
I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory but it looks like the Kremlin have infiltrated our government since Johnson was bought,sorry brought to power?
Feel free to say I’m talking bollo*#s
AAV recently complained about whitewashing history.
Here’s an interesting read on the British car industry being well and truly ruined before that witch Thatcher.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/business/2018/01/17/merger-that-killed-our-car-industry/
I never claimed that British Leyland wasn't in big trouble before the nationalisation, however you'd have to whitewash history to pretend that the cuts and hasty sell-off that Thatcher imposed ended up being good for it.
What it needed was strategic investment, not massive cutbacks followed by a string of private operators, several of which were clearly more interested in asset stripping than returning the company to profitability.
Was it the Tories? Or was it the Black Nobility, Temple Bar and the Club of Rome nudging, niggling and nagging the British government to impoverish the nation because they have horrific global and totalitarian intentions?
All 5-Eyes politicians are puppets. All of them.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/who-rules-the-world
'In the nuclear celebratory mood of the moment, there is little patience or political will for sober voices to discuss the reality that new nuclear power is actually many decades away from having any measurable impact on climate change – if at all.' UK PM Rishi Sunak blames Putin for 'weaponising' global energy supplies, saying it has caused 'household bills to soar'. End of Oppenheimer dream on nuclear energy dream. Although successful France on nuclear energy. About 63% of France's electricity comes from nuclear power. Niger (French Orano) delivers most of the uranium used to power these nuclear power plants. If Niger bans Uranium export to France, where will all that Uranium come from? French embassy in Niger has been attacked.
https://prada.substack.com/p/another-nolans-magnum-opus-oppenheimer
How does one even start to unravel these “deals?”
The railways are reasonably easy to unravel at the moment as since COVID all of the passenger franchises have been affectively cancelled and they are now operating on a cost plus type of contract where the ORR set a minimum service level and then pay the companies a fixed amount to operate said services so they are already in public hands as all the risk has been taken away by the DoT - Network rail is fully back in puublic hands but has its own hands tied by the DoT as to what it can charge for access, it also inherited a mountain of debt and deferred maintenance from Railtrack when it went bust - the only part of privatisation that has actually worked as intended were the independant freight companies and the ROSCOs which freed up the operators from being tied to state fundung to finance new stock.
Do you have / know of a really granular list of who owns what - e.g all the individual water companies, rail companies etc? Your table at the top is a good starting point, but it's a bit top level.
I did this one a couple of years ago. It took me ages to research. Nobody officially keeps tabs on any of this stuff!
https://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.com/2021/10/who-actually-owns-uks-water-supply.html
One of JC's policies was to buy back British Rail... Yes, it wasn't popular with the fat cats, for some reason...!
Is it true that the German government now owns part of British Rail? If so perhaps the British government could buy it back, and the Germans could use the proceeds to buy back the Deutsche Bundesbahn, which has been in steady decline since it too was privatised. A win-win transaction!