[andrewb]

What? Privatisation has driven prices down because of huge competition. Look at the broadband market, its available to you and from many different companies and look how cheap you're getting it!

The only reason its 'helping the British tax payer' is because the Bank of England shouldn't have pumped £23billion into Northern Rock when they had no solid way of getting out of the mess other than nationalising it to claim back the money.