The British Gas workers must prevail, or fire and rehire will become the norm. It is already being mooted in Openreach. The legacy of privatisation is a very, very long one.
Yet the same product, via the same pipes or wires, cannot possibly cost different amounts from different companies. Never mind from the same company, but on different tariffs. Nor can national sovereignty, which is otherwise known as liberty and democracy, be secured while the commanding heights of the economy are themselves commanded by foreign interests and even by foreign states.
See also the fiasco over food parcels. A private company has to make a profit, and making and distributing hampers is obviously more expensive than printing off and posting out a voucher, never mind transferring money into a bank account.
Yes, if you give poor people money, then they will buy things with it. For example, food. But not only poor people do that. I hesitate, but you yourself may occasionally have used money to buy food. Whether for yourself, or, if you had any, for your children. As for parents who might not spend their money on feeding their children, they might very well not give them the food that had been sent out, either.
Anyone who has ever pointed out any of the foregoing needs no lectures on cancel culture. We have never not been cancelled, mostly by the people who now bemoan the taste of their own medicine. But they had better get used to it, administered by their own beloved "free" market. For example, less than a week after publication, Oliver Kamm's latest book is already discounted on Amazon, and second hand copies are already available. There are no customer reviews, just as no review of it has appeared in any print publication.
Away from Kamm and among serious people instead, I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?
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