No one, at least outside a few rather barmy think
tanks that enjoy a very special relationship with Newsnight and the Today programme, ever did think of privatisation as an intrinsically permanent
arrangement, or as anything more than a kind of lease. It has always been
understood that these things really still belonged to the public, which could
always take them back if this experiment failed. It has failed. So take them
back.
The railways are going to happen. There is no
longer any serious doubt about that. It is only a matter of when, and therefore
by whom. Why not this, too? Even Peter Hitchens wants it. Even Simon Heffer
supports a National Grid for water, which cannot happen outside public
ownership. Nor can the vitally necessary mass expansion of nuclear power and
re-opening of the pits, both of which are also advocated by Hitchens, with the former advocated by
Heffer as well.
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