Quote Originally Posted by Ram Pant View Post
I still am of the opinion that services such as gas, water, electricity, buses, trains and the NHS should never, ever be in private hands. There will be those who disagree.

Private hospitals/clinics are not a problem, as far as I am concerned, provided there's sufficient NHS capacity to properly treat the huge % of the populace that can't afford private health care, in a timely fashion.
This is an interesting one. I was in favour of the Thatcher era denationalisation of some of these service companies which initially seemed to provide an enhanced service at a less volatile cost but as time went on I became increasingly disillusioned with the lack of intrastructiral investment - or the misdirection of it - in the privatised bodies. I now tend to support the RP perspective for eectric gas water etc although less so for buses, trains etc. I still have "scars" from commuting under British Rail - or rather not commuting nut waiting on platforms in the rain during cancellations strikes and late running.

How does it work in the land of clog? Are all such things all in national ownership?

Mind you achieving renationalisation on an e1uitable basis may prove a financial challenge unless one just lets the private service providers simply go to the wall and pick up the businesses cheap - or at the expense of peoples pension funds, which would indirectly charge the cost to most of the country, particularly the older cohort who had more invested. This approach would mean most services would have to deteriorate still further, and cost a lot more to fix under the state.

Sadly all a "bit of a mess", but most of us here will be dead before anything gets cured