The gas and electricity charges resulting from privatisation.
The control of our gas and electricity supplies by foreign interests, including foreign states as such.
The weakening of the Union by the dismantlement of publicly owned service providers, often with the word "British" in their names.
Our obstinate dependence on foreign fuel instead of on coal and on nuclear power.
The wild inflation of the price of household staples by the Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies, with the destruction of household spending power by Thatcher's European Single Market, by Thatcher's anti-union laws, and by the Thatcherite cuts in public sector jobs, public sector pay, and Social Security.
And so very much else besides.
Unfair? Undoubtedly. But complex? Not at all. Only too horribly, horribly simple.
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None of the basic utilities should be in the hands of any foreign power or company which could result in this country being held to ransom. Neither should the ROYAL mail. Also, while we are on, take back our fishing waters so that OUR fishermen can protect and conserve the fish stocks around these islands. Is it not ludicrous that such a great seafaring nation as ours is hidebound by regulations coming from that great fishing nation Belgium which tells us what we can catch, how much, and when.
ReplyDeleteBelgium is the least of our worries: historically our principal ally and trading partner on the Continent, with a social democracy based explicitly on Christianity, and with a monarch of the same Royal House as our own. Still a foreign country, though.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with everything else that you say, of course.
I didn't mean Belgium as such; but as the seat of the EU. It is from Brussels that many (most?) of our problems sprout.
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