Beyond a small service charge to maintain the pipes and what not, why do these rain-sodden islands full of rivers and lakes charge for water? Yet despite the unanswerable argument in each case, the Government refuses to renationalise any of the water companies, because then it would have to do them all. Yes, that really is what it is saying.
But it is happy to see Harland and Wolff bought by Navantia, which is the Kingdom of Spain. I am as delighted as anyone for the thousand people whose jobs this has secured. The point is that the Fleet Solid Support Programme, to build three ships for the Royal Navy, has been handed over, not only to a foreign state as such, but to one with an irredentist claim to a British Overseas Territory.
So much for the Tories and Reform.
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