Thames Water is going bankrupt and sinking fast. Years of mismanagement have resulted in this situation. So why should the government throw Thames Water a lifeline or be considering rescue packages. No let them go bust. Let Thames Water slip away down the plughole. So what is the reasoning behind this?
Category: Re-nationalise the utilities now: the only solution to deal with Inflation and the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’
It is now imperative to re-nationalise the utilities to deal with Inflation and the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’. Inflation is being driven by the energy companies so it’s time to deal with them by taking them back into public ownership, where they will be serving the British people and not exploiting them. Obviously the Tories are unwilling to do this and our next Prime Minister is deluded if she believes that anything less than nationalising the energy providers will work to deal with Inflation and the ‘ Cost of Living Crisis’. Liz Truss may have the top job but her Tory mindset will be her downfall and a constant blindspot to dealing with these issues. The Tories are now the real obstacle to dealing with Inflation and the ‘ Cost of Living Crisis’. The Tories have to go and re- nationalising the utilities must now happen.
Thatcherism still pollutes our water with the stench of privatisation
Ugly Thatcherism still casts a long dark shadow over Britain. The stench of Thatcher and her privatisations pollute many aspects of Britain not least the water that we drink, bathe in or seek our recreation in or near. Thatcherism still pollutes our water with the stench of privatisation. Much of Britain’s coastline is polluted as our many British beauty spots and for all this you can place the blame on the British water Companies. I say British in a very loose way because many have been taken over by foreign investors who care not a jot about the stinking foul mess that they have made of Britain.
So what should Britain do about these disgraced Water Companies
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‘A Changed Labour Party’ pursueing Electoral Credibility but at what cost to policies?
‘A Changed Labour Party’ as Kier Starmer likes to call it, pursueing electoral credibility but at what cost to policies? Sir Kier Starmer keeps dropping in phrases about the Labour Party’s electoral credibility but what is unclear about his focus on this issue is the cost to the Labour Party’s policies and ambitions.
The last time we saw ‘A changed Labour Party’ was that of Tony Blair: and what a disaster that was
The last time we saw ‘A Changed Labour Party’ was that of Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’: and what a disaster that was. So is Starmer wanting to take Labour back to the uninspiring and instantly forgettable Tony Blair years? Well on the face of it it would appear to be so. So even though the Tories are gifting the next General Election to Labour, nervous Starmer still seems intent on watering the Labour Party policies down to worthlessness.
Waterways Pollution in Britain: Thatcher’s privatisations come to a shitty end
Last weeks admissions of failure by the British Water Companies are the perfect demonstration of the failure of Margaret Thatcher’s privatisations. Water pollution in the UK reflects and reveals decades of mismanagement by these water companies and exposes once and for all the failures of Britain’s privatisations brought about by the Thatcher and Major governments.
Now the final cost of these privatisations include polluted rivers and the coastline of the British Isles. Years of lack of investment and mismanagement have surfaced to show us the extent of the problems of privatisation. These companies have been creaming off profits to shareholders and investing in other business interests whilst neglecting their primary purpose. The stench of corruption and malpractice is as bad as the stench left by them in our polluted rivers and our beaches. Companies such as these have the obligation to look after the resources they are managing not to trash them. This obligation should be a prerequisite to the nature of there work. Hence by increasing pollution in our rivers and upon our beaches they have failed to execute their duties properly and should be removed as a liability as quickly as possible. It wouldn’t take long to do this and to prove this in a court of law and the British Government should be pressed to do so as a matter of obligation. However we have a Conservative Government in power that still supports these failed privations dating back to the Thatcher and Major Governments so any action on the matter seems remote.
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Britain needs Socialism now more than ever before
Tory policies have caused Britain to run aground. Thatcherite policies and values have now backed Britain into a cul-de-sac. There is no route forward any longer and therefore no reason to cling to the values of Thatcherism. Britain has no income and longer is is also bankrupt of ideas. Now the only course of action available to the Tories is to raise levels of government income from taxation. This was inevitable as a result of privatisation of Britain’s assets. Recent Tory governments have relied upon borrowing as a way of shoring up the facade that everything was under control. Then along came Liz Truss who tore down the mirrors to reveal the true horror show that the Tories had created. Truss even managed to make matters worse and that takes some doing.
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How to tackle the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’
How to tackle the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’. Well the first obstacle is to remove the Tory Government because they are not equipped, ethically or ideologically, to deal effectively with the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’. In fact many of their policies have contributed to this situation. The legacy of Thatcherism is also a contributory factor. The current situation of having our Energy and other utilities in the private sector is a major factor contributing to the high levels of Inflation that we are seeing. These Energy Providers have just got increasingly greedy and any attempts to moderate this by Tory Government Policies has been ineffectual.
Baldrick also had a bold and cunning plan: which like Truss’s will come to nothing
As we await the bold plan of the latest installment of the Tory Prime Minister number 4 , Liz Tuss, I am reminded of another bold and cunning plan by Baldrick of Black Adder fame. It might appear that the 2 have something in common with one another with the announcements of both that they have a bold and cunning plan. The similarities might not just end there though because Baldruck’s plans always came to nought and similarly those of Liz Truss’s may have the same auspicious ending as well. I suppose only time will tell. However during the leadership race I was pretty unconvinced by Truss whose wooly thinking often exposed her. I was also not convinced that Truss had any edge at all over Sunak and mostly to the contrary actually I thought Sunak gave the more convincing arguments. Remember that Truss’s plans to alter income tax actually didn’t benefit Pensioners at all. What struck me most about Truss’s win was that there must be a severe lack of any real talent at all in the Conservative Party at the moment if Truss was eventually crowned as the preferred candidate.
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Britain, for goodness sake wake up and call for re-nationalisation of the utilities, we need new thinking to tackle problems
What’s wrong with British people? Why are British people so against re-nationalisation of our utilities: our infrastructure? In recent months we have seen how the Energy Providers are exploiting a situation to maximise their profits. We have seen that their actions have led to Inflation and Intertest Rate rises. The time has come to seek to re-nationalise the utilities and in particular the Energy Providers. How long can the British avoid nationalisation of the Energy Companies when it’s starring you in the face as the only solution to deal with Inflation and the ‘ Cost of Living Crisis’. A Tory government will not do this and without it there is not even a single glimmer of hope that a change in the leadership of the Tories will help at all.
Liz Truss was a false hope and a mere waste of time. Now she represents a source of embarrassment for the Tories. A misguided and a desperate attempt to reverse the fortune of the Tories. A government led by Liz Truss was a costly misadventure for the Tories and something they have failed to live down. Liz Truss was a costly mistake both for the Tories and the country as a whole. Through Liz Truss, the Tories have shown that they cannot be relied upon to do the right thing and nationalise the energy providers in the U for the good of the country. The misadventure of the Tories investing faith in Liz Truss’s government just goes to show how desperately ineffective Tory policies are. Obviously renationalising and public ownership in general are blind spot for all Tories and as long as it is then right thing to do will remain undone because the Tories still have belief in Thatcherite policies. But time after time we are now hearing about the failures of Thatcherism that haunt the British Economy and which continue to hold Britain back.
Re-nationalise the Energy Providers is the only option to deal with Inflation: the Tories are the only obstacle
It is evident that the only solution to deal with Inflation is to re-nationalise the Energy Providers in the UK: the only obstacle to be removed is the Tories. It is now in the national interest to re- nationalise these Energy Providers to deal with Inflation and to prevent the gross profiteering by these utilities which is against the national interests. Quite simply the current situation is intolerable and is the only factor driving inflation higher and higher. The Tories have lost any control and regulation of the utilities and Ofgen is defunct and unfit for purpose. Continue reading Re-nationalise the Energy Providers is the only option to deal with Inflation: the Tories are the only obstacle
Price Cap: My Arse
There is no EnergyPrice Cap. No meaningful intervention and no controls and certainly no regulating body. Price Cap: my Arse. Energy companies and utilities are setting any arbitrary prices that they like without intervention from this useless Tory Government. Energy companies and utilities can basically charge what they want and over inflate their greed and profiteering at the same time. Only the threats of re- nationalisation can rein them in now.