UK Politics

3103 readers

283 users here now

General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

tom

GreatAlbatross

flamingos

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net

Come clean on secret taxpayer rescue plans for Thames Water, MP demands (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by GreatAlbatross to c/uk_politics

5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] HumanPenguin 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Agreed.

And well worth pointing out at every oppertunity.

To many in the UK have fallen for the lie that nationalisation is inherently inefficient.

Without thinking beyond the right-wing properganda.

if we as taxpayers and customers. Are paying more while getting less from privatised utilities.

How the hell are we measuring efficency.

if nayionalised utilities are failing to be efficient. They are managed by government. And are able to act exactly as a private org.

Who is to blame. And who gains from creating an extra layer of privatised blame.