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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
there must be some  the only way our country would get its former glory if the infrastructure was put back into the hands of the population and proper government of britain. ie nationalization . we could control our own destiny instead of being at the mercy of the tory hedge funds. |
I agree that proper governance would be a step in the right direction, but out of the whole shower of She-ite we've got to choose from, even mixing & matching across the parties you'd still be hard pushed to drag together a halfways decent, honest, reliable & trustworthy government.
As to nationalization, it isn't the answer, its been tried & look where it ended, dominance by the unions, work to rule, strikes which didn't help the general public, the employees or for that matter the employers. A balance between privately owned & nationalized "should" in theory be the way forward, but not so unbalanced as it is today.
Government should read the companies & bidders the riot act, allow them to tender, make a reasonable profit for their investment, but should maintain control over things. If someone starts getting greedy or fails to effectively carry the agreed terms & conditions they signed up to they should be immediately stripped of their contract, hammered with fines & sent packing. Not rocket science is it? But there's no-one with the backbone or balls to see such conditions through & until that changes, UK will continue to wallow in the cesspit of ineffectual mediocrity it finds itself in today!