https://leftfootforward.org/2014/11/water-privatisaton-25-years-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://leftfootforward.org/2014/11/water-privatisaton-25-years-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-668749 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:16:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91059#comment-668749 This is a great site but could you not get someone to proof read the articles before publication? Take the penultimate sentence above “Looking back on 25 years of privatization the experiment has delivered a high quality, trusted water supply, a better environment, higher bills, asset stripping, tax avoidance and a new model of public ownership.” That can’t be what you meant to say!

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2014/11/water-privatisaton-25-years-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-660123 Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:08:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91059#comment-660123 As regional monopolies…renationalise them. They’re not subject to many of the standard rules because of said monopoly status.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2014/11/water-privatisaton-25-years-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-660052 Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:26:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91059#comment-660052 “An industry that was once owned by the government”? No it wasn’t. It was owned by the people of the UK, including UK taxpayers. It was sold off by Thatcher to enrich the few. The government owns nothing. ‘Public ownership’ means what it says on the tin.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2014/11/water-privatisaton-25-years-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-659601 Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:54:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91059#comment-659601 Milliband may well come up with the bright idea of a ‘freeze on water’, just like his bright idea of a freeze on energy. But what next?
Labour must commit itself to re-Nationalisation of Water and Energy and Rail, and stop all this pussy footing around. One Nation One Water One Rail.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2014/11/water-privatisaton-25-years-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comment-659376 Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:45:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91059#comment-659376 Just in case you forgot the other two countries attached to the “union” here’s an addition for your readers on water
” In Northern Ireland and Scotland state owned companies act as the major providers of water and sewage services. Northern Ireland Water is the sole water and sewage provider in Northern Ireland while Scottish Water carries out similar functions in Scotland. A comparison shows that the privatised companies of England and Wales charge roughly twice as much as the public sector water authorities of Scotland.”

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