Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Nationalisation at last!

At last the government has done the right thing and nationalised Northern Rock. Why it has been so timmid when it comes to natinalisation i think is a throw back to the 1980s when privatisation was cool and nationalisation was out of date and old fashioned.

The government rather than being shy about nationalisation should be making a strong case for its return in certain situations. Take the Railways, ok Network Rail is state owned but why not bring back the whole railway under state ownership? The privatised system is costing the taxpayer twice as much as when it was state owned and the service is worse! Another case is for water to be nationalised. Fed up of expensive water bills? water companies are private monoplolies licensed to print money. Water is a national resource and as such should be owned by the people, not private proffiteers. So come on Gordon don`t be shy make the case for nationalisation.

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