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  1. Amin Arrears

    Amin Arrears Well-Known Member

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    Yes. What's the problem?
     
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  2. Walter Sobchak

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    It's not just bringing people here, it's when they go abroad. Whole nations stop to see them, and hundreds of our officials use this to do trade and form relationships etc.

    They're not of 'no worth'. The royal family do what we tell them or else. We send them out to earn us money and don't allow them any power. The main ones are basically slaves but get to live in big houses.
     
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  3. Walter Sobchak

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    Plus Paris is a **** hole. I don't get why anyone would go there. I'd take going to Brid over Paris anyday of the week.
     
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    And then there's a privileged prince - with zero royal blood in him I might add - putting pressure on his art teacher to do his GCSE exam for him so he can get a pre determined job in the forces that he's not fit for...
     
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  5. Amin Arrears

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    Perhaps they should take their estate back from the people, renounce their position, stop doing any charity work and everything else they do and just carry on with their business empire?

    Obviously it would profit the UK economy massively wouldn't it. And those ****ers would have **** all with all the assets they have.
     
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    <laugh>
     
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    That's because of environmental legislation which meant flue gas desulphurisation was retrofitted to power station and wind and biomass were subsidised by carbon taxes
     
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    Old enough to remember the size of my bills from 1977 onwards. They employed people who then spent that money in the local community and paid tax and national insurance. The industry wasn't a drain on the tax payer as both gas and electric paid money into the Treasury. It worked perfectly well from 1945 until the 1980s, discontinuing the few months when Ted Heath had to introduce the three day week.

    Since then the industry employs less British workers and will shortly be paying the Chinese a fortune for our power. I'd rather have a nationalised energy industry every day over what we have now. Its so bad even the Tory are threatening to cap prices.
     
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    plus our former colonies are **** at football, compared to frances
     
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    France really does struggle.
     
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  11. Walter Sobchak

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    **** France. Smelly bastards the lot of em. Rule Britannia!
     
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    **** saudi arabia, smelly bastards the lot of em
     
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    But the benefits of privatisation “manifestly outweighed its failings, which would have become far more intractable had public sector ownership endured”

    The government benefited from one-off sale proceeds and increased corporation tax receipts, as well as a surge in investment. Shareholders, with some notable exceptions, have done very well with many privatisations heavily outperforming the FTSE 100, the paper said. A notable exception was the 2001 collapse of Railtrack.

    “It is clear that while utility privatisation is not a perfect solution, it is infinitely better than stultifying public sector ownership. It is inconceivable that the massive level of utility investment over the last quarter century could have been undertaken if public ownership had continued.”

    Adam Smith Institute (2017).

    https://www.ft.com/content/bcf64c9c-5fb3-11e5-a28b-50226830d644?mhq5j=e1
     
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    I wouldn't hold France up as an example of how to do anything.

    With the possible exception of baking bread and cakes.
     
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    And food, architecture, culture, having the world's most visited city...
     
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    Compared to 90% of the world, YOU are in a priveliged position for pretty much the self and same reasons. Should you be abdicated too, in the name of a fairer global society?
     
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    They actually live not far from me. Often seen walking down the splash (esplanade) in Largs.
     
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    London.
     
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    Amazing how you can get people to vote against their own self-interest and be happy to do so
     
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