Moonhead
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I think the issue is more that Thatcher set the ball rolling on that one in this country. The debate as to whether Blair and his Scots mini me destroyed as much employment with their own programme has yet to be settled, after all.
I did have a link on this, I will try and dig it out. I have mixed feelings on privatisation, some industries would have been better served in public hands, some not. The utitities, for instance, should never have been sold off. For what it is worth, I fear the coalition could do more damage than Thatcher or Blair/Brown. I have always felt these should have been run as a non profit making organisation, with any surplus after maintenance put back into R&D.
There was a good article in the independant regards private industry not being any better than public industry, as illustrated by the G4S debacle.
The other really appalling example of something not working half as well as a group of plcs as it did as a publicly subsidised state asset is British Rail that was, though carving that one up was Major rather than Thatcher, of course.
(I'm increasingly of the opinion that whenever there's a train crash now the investors in whichever company owns the rolling stock that fucked up should pay the victims' families weregild.)
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