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?
It was Nick Raynsford who fobbed off the Garnock Court Select Committee in 1999 with BRE Fire Note 9 and commissioned Warrington Fire to compare Class 0 (National) to the classes in BS EN 13501-1.
Charles Falconer seems to have been in office when Warrington Fire finished the RADAR 2 report in early 2002, which told the Ministry that Class 0 (National) could be (European) Class C or D for composites.
Making a mockery of Diagram 40.
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