threespires
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In 1979 Britain (that is, of course, us) owned our energy, water, transport, postal service, telecoms infrastructure, trains and railways, millions of social houses, sat on a huge North Sea Oil reserve and only had a National Debt of £80bn.
In 2022 Britain has no discernible assets and a National Debt of £2.5Tn.
The Tories have sold so much of Britain, there’s virtually nothing left.
A large chunk of the planet have sussed that the World Bank and IMF were talking bollocks when they touted the line that almost any public services could be privatised. Consequently in recent years there's been a trend in loads of countries to bring utilities back into public ownership in one form or another but just not here in Backwardsville. Get the impression that Labour think that renationalisation frightens the horses but I think polls show majority support for multiple sectors and after the current shitshow I suspect will be higher still. Starmer says he wants to be pragmatic rather than ideological, fair enough but he is off with the fairies if he thinks he can regulate his way to where we need to be anytime soon.