La privatizzazione delle industrie del Regno Unito sta guidando i costi della crisi vivente, afferma il leader dei Verdi
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/18/privatisation-of-uk-industries-is-driving-cost-of-living-crisis-says-greens-leader
di corbynista2029
14 commenti
actually true
privatising energy and water was arguably the biggest mistake ever made
Well duh.
Businesses do not care about anything but profit and shareholders.
Where do you think the money that is skimmed off the top comes from?
The government has outsourced its industry to the point it’s basically a bank for the private sector.
Yeah, but what about all the efficiency the private sector brings? Like not bothering to maintain or invest in water infrastructure for thirty years because the tax payer will bail you out.
People forget privatisation happened because services were of abysmal quality at the time, and voters didn’t want to pay more taxes to improve them – the solution was higher bills (proportional to usage) and private capital investments (since there’s nothing in it for the state).
It worked well for telecommunications, energy distribution and (renewable) generation, ambulance services etc
Ofc, Tory corruption meant they were going to use that wave of privatisation to include things that didn’t need it, like oil/gas/resources extraction (instead of using that wealth to create a sovereign fund)…
I hear nothing about how do we make sure the public actually benefits from re-nationalisation though?
If the taxpayer pays for upgrades, have we really made anything cheaper? Is the state any more capable of managing complex companies today?
Or is it just magic thinking?…
The real tax we should all be complaining about is rent (of all forms)
Yes, nothing to do with housing costs or Russia invading Ukraine driving up oil/gas and grain prices impacting energy and food costs
It’s not privatization that saves money. It’s competition.
The government selling a monopoly service off is just as bad as them running it.
They should be enabling competition. Breaking monopolies and lowering the cost to join the market.
“Butt waaaa water company/train/etc bad and run bad”.
Oh you mean the services people can literally not go elsewhere?
Try looking at our broadband services after breaking up BT. Great competition is driving prices down, pushing infrastructure upgrades.
Businesses don’t have any responsibility to the nation so they shouldn’t have national utilities.
Weird, why are European countries with nationalized industries experiencing the same?
Socialists demanding state control of productivity does not usually end well.
>Zack Polanski calls mass privatisation a ‘failed experiment’ as report finds it has cost UK households £250 a year more
£250 a year isn’t what is keeping people poor.
It’s Nimbys and stupid environmental regulations like how you can’t build Bromley By Bow’s disused gasworks because it has 70 protected tree orders on it.
The Greens are always the absolute worst when it comes to Nimbyism and would halt almost all construction everywhere.
If the government does have money for renationalisation they definitely shouldn’t spend it on that, they should spend it on building housing and infrastructure we so badly need.
If a family is paying £20k a year in rent and £250 in waste to privatised companies which is the real problem?
Great, but what is he proposing the Green’s do if they win power?
The Labour government is already in the process of nationalising rail (ignoring that most of it was already virtually nationalised) and yet they admit that ticket prices will not fall.
Nationalise water – every political party is staying away from that one because they don’t want to get the stick from customers when bills have to increase massively to pay for the work to stop shit in the rivers, and easier to keep on blaming someone else.
Nationalise mail? FFS, who sends letters these days.
Nationalise the big six energy utilities, well that won’t cut bills as they make damn all profit as the real profit is made by the energy companies who are extracting the fossil fuels or building the wind and solar farms.
Anyone else think it’s odd how the only taxpayer funded thing that should be privatised (bbc) isn’t? Sell off our trains, buses, housing, you name it but never our precious tv. It would put the whole tv licence thing to bed at the cost of a couple of adverts. Huh.