Quote Originally Posted by kettering_baggie View Post
I wasn’t suggesting that energy firms should be renationalised, mainly because of the enormous cost, just that it should never have happened. I see no reason, though, why the government couldn’t set up a new, publicly owned energy supplier to compete with the private ones. Put the right management in place and with no shareholders to pay out, surely it would be possible to undercut the current lot?

I haven’t had any offers of paddles yet……….
It would be interesting to see if part nationalised and part privatised business could work. On the one hand it feels like it could if it behaved like a private firm that made profit, only for the profit to go back in tax payers hands.

On the other hand, if they succeeded in smashing the market, like all businesses should aspire to do, it would lose the perfect competition element and become bad for consumers.