No natural monopoly should be in private hands but water is probably the most outrageously egregious of all the privatisations (at least until they work out how to privatise air). What possible justification can there be for a natural national resource being in private hands? These ****s have racked up £54billion of debt whilst paying £66billion in dividends to shareholders, many of which will be based overseas. Three billion litres of water lost to leaks every single day and not a single new reservoir in 30 years. Thames Water even pays for TV ads to tell us what a sound job they're doing. What the **** are the regulators doing?
Under the EU it would be nigh on impossible to renationalise any industries like water, gas, rail etc………just reminding you of that
And that’s a good thing for Lefties like you and me…..under a more progressive, Left Wing government…..it’s much more possible (though almost certainly unlikely). Plenty of info on the how’s and whys out there Strolls……
8% of land in the UK is open access We serfs should think ourselves lucky https://www.theguardian.com/comment...nd-public-trespassing-reclaim-our-countryside
True Levellers” strove for the economic equality of a “community of goods.” They wished to hold “all things in common
Random fact - The Diggers (an offshoot of The Levellers) had one of their bases in Iver, where I used to live
I think I may have mentioned that my brother reckons we have an ancestor who was a Leveller, executed in 1647 for his part in the New Model Army debates.
This is what I mean when I talk of being proud of our working class history. Kids don’t learn this stuff anymore
Corkbush Field near Ware in Hertfordshire. Cromwell and Fairfax were agitated by continued attempts by the Levellers to get the NMA to adopt their Agreement of the People manifesto, and ordered some troopers (not, noticeably, the officers who were Levellers like Lilburne) to be rounded up, identified three ‘ringleaders’ to be executed, drew lots to see which one would be and my alleged ancestor was the unlucky one, shot on the spot……by, in an especially cruel twist, the two who had been reprieved. I really hope he was my ancestor, but it hangs on the different spellings of his surname used in different sources, and I’m a bit doubtful.
