Nationalisation of our assets editor@theeuroprobe.org
Nationalisation of water will not make it rain. Nationalisation of gas will not make foreign producers sell their gas to us more cheaply as their basic aim is to asset strip the UK consumers. History has shown that Nationalised assets have never performed well. However when Privatised they may be better but not by much due to lax regulation by the government and lack of transparency. The UK assets should only have been sold to UK citizens but many of the UK assets were sold to foreign owners due to EU enforced requirements. Foreign owners have no interest in providing a good cheap service for UK consumers but only to strip as much money from the UK consumers as they can and spend as little as possible on improving the service as they can.
The problem with Nationalisation of Utilities is that the government then considers those assets to be theirs to sell off to their chums or foreign companies for ready cash as they see fit. Either that or they give cushy directorships to their political mates whether they are competent or not and incompetent managers usually bubble up to the top.
National assets belong to the UK citizens who have paid for them – particularly any strategic utilities. Water, gas, electricity, Communication facilities, railways and National Trust etc. Private companies can hire aspects of those Utilities for their profit but the ownership must be the citizens not the government.
The shares of the Nationalised utilities should be shared out equally among the UK citizens (and their desendants) who paid for them and they would then receive annual dividends from them. They should be ‘not for sale’ shares.
Our parents & ancestors built many networks by dint of their very hard work and using the countries wealth. E.g. electricity, water, roads, schools, railways, sewage, the NHS, rubbish removal, national parks, libraries etc. Should migrants and newcomers be entitled to have free use of them having contributed nothing towards them? Should they pay an extra tax if they do?
Citizens in this case would be people who are ansestors of British citizens of yore (and their descendants) prior to the Maastricht Treaty as they and their ancestors paid for those assets. The Maastricht Treaty made all UK citizens of the EU as a precuser to abolishing UK citizenship for EU citizenship only. read http://www.theeuroprobe.org/2019-032-proposal-for-uk-citizenship-post-brexit/
Their personal shares would not be for sale and the UK citizens would get dividends each year. Their shares would lapse on their death but their descendants would receive their own shares at birth.
Those running these Nationalised Utilities and their salaries would be decided by the citizen shareholders voting them in and out if they do not perform.
Mick Greenhough 10 7 2022