No new reservoirs in over 30 years, over 3 billion litres of leakage lost a day, £72 billion paid in dividends since privatisation.
Yeh privatisation really worked for all our benefits
There's a very fundamental point here, I think, and it relates to the question 'what is a country for?' and 'what is a government for'. My long standing view is that the primary purpose of government is to ensure the safety and security of its citizens, and the role of a country is in defining who those citizens are, to differentiate them from the global population. So a government which promotes the market, rather than promoting wellbeing and human needs, is neglecting its primary duty. To argue that 'the market' is the chosen mechanism to assure people's needs are met, is to let the tail wag the dog.We live in a Free Market economy the purpose of which is to ensure the interests of big companies. Social purposes are at best secondary and in practice only considered in so far as they do not interfere with the interests of business.
The market is only one component in the realm of human affairs, and if it is given primary purpose, will fail to meet human needs on a wider scale.
If we want social considerations to be met, we need the primary purpose of government to be moral and aimed at human need, not aimed at the amorality of the competitive self interest of actors in an unregulated market.
Yes. In short, government should be first and foremost for public purpose, not private interests. Private interests can still be served, if they first address public need, which water, gas, and electricity companies clearly do not.There's a very fundamental point here, I think, and it relates to the question 'what is a country for?' and 'what is a government for'. My long standing view is that the primary purpose of government is to ensure the safety and security of its citizens, and the role of a country is in defining who those citizens are, to differentiate them from the global population. So a government which promotes the market, rather than promoting wellbeing and human needs, is neglecting its primary duty. To argue that 'the market' is the chosen mechanism to assure people's needs are met, is to let the tail wag the dog.
No new reservoirs in 30 years. How many new houses? How many more people? Great isn’t it.
On the contrary we live in a rigged economy aka crapitalism.We live in a Free Market economy.
Or anything that tells you that someone who was young in the 60s/70s is a lot older now, and how they look will ‘break your heart’.Or anything that tells you it just 'broke the internet'
Well, the “free” market is far from free. Labour for example is tightly regulated. So yes, the economy we have is rigged.On the contrary we live in a rigged economy aka crapitalism.
Or anything that tells you that someone who was young in the 60s/70s is a lot older now, and how they look will ‘break your heart’.
I came through Austerity and still trying to work out what the fuss was all about.