The rising cost of energy. We closed the pits, so we cannot generate home grown electricity via coal. We privatised the energy companies, effectively increasing the cost of Gas and Electricity at a huge rate. She blindly followed the American model, and used the profits from selling those utilities to keep the taxes down.Originally Posted by aromulus
As in....???
She sold out future generations for a few short term tax cuts to keep her in power
Here we go again, Labour had 13 years to sort it out, so why haven't they? Ah yeah, blame the last government, you know the one from 1997. It doesn't wash anymore, they are all as useless as each other.The rising cost of energy. We closed the pits, so we cannot generate home grown electricity via coal. We privatised the energy companies, effectively increasing the cost of Gas and Electricity at a huge rate. She blindly followed the American model, and used the profits from selling those utilities to keep the taxes down.
She sold out future generations for a few short term tax cuts to keep her in power
Because they had already conceeded the argument to to the Tories before they even got in and they weren't about to change anything as they thought the Tories had proved that it all worked.
Some things belong in public hands, I worked for the SSEB (Scottish Power) in the mid 80's it was extremely well run, huge uptime massive generation capacity and grid management that was the envy of the entire country.
We were overpaid underworked and didn't know how lucky we were (some of us anyway) but the privatised replacement was never a better solution as power supply needs long term thinking and the free market (for power at least) always thinks short term.
Just wait in 5 or 6 years time, we will start getting the kind of brownouts they get get in Manila :(
Short sighted short term gains not long term thought :(
Jim
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The rising cost of energy. We closed the pits, so we cannot generate home grown electricity via coal. We privatised the energy companies, effectively increasing the cost of Gas and Electricity at a huge rate. She blindly followed the American model, and used the profits from selling those utilities to keep the taxes down.
She sold out future generations for a few short term tax cuts to keep her in power
She only pioneered new market forces...
Besides, huge amounts of Polish coal was being shipped in at less than a third of what could have cost if dug out in the UK....
And again, if the energy companies were still in Gov hands, who says that we would be better off, wether service wise or costs...???
Forget Labour! They're lining their own pockets just as the tories did.
But I do think the the privatisation of all these companies was based upon a model imported from the US designed for one simple thing. The redistribution of wealth from those less off to the wealthy..
They would have gone after the NHS if they thought they could have gotten away with it!
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