Only in July, British Gas announced half-yearly profits of half a billion pounds. Today, it adds to that another unanswerable argument for public ownership. A third is the fact that public ownership is British ownership, that it safeguards the Union, and that its means of defending both the sovereignty and the integrity of this nation frequently even had the word "British" in their names.
Moreover, remember that wildly inflated fuel prices, falling particularly hard on the poor (including very many of the old), are being enforced as part of the war against secure and skilled employment, against the paternal authority thus possessed of the necessary economic basis, against global economic development, against travel by us common people, and against our access to the meat that we are designed to eat.
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The answers to calls for public ownership usually involve the same old, tired free market clichés about how inefficient governments are, “you don’t want to go back to the ‘70s,”etc.
ReplyDeleteI can tell you, though, that after dealing with utilities owned by my municipality and dealing with utilities owned by private companies, the municipal utilities are much more efficient and easy to deal with and are much less likely to sting you with rate increases.