Re: redwood on the chaos of old labour irresponsibility.....

Robin T Cox wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:57:38 +0200, abelard wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JN2AWGZEXF1ADQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/opinion/2007/08/13/do1301.xml
"Passengers standing on trains, drivers sitting in traffic jams,
homeowners bailing out flood water, travellers delayed trying to board
a plane, and people queuing to get drinking water out of a bowser have
something in common.

They have all fallen prey to the chronic lack of capacity in the UK's
basic service networks supplied or controlled by government.

It is putting investors off the UK. This is one of the reasons we are
slipping down the world competitiveness league tables, leaving too
many people with no job or a poorly paid job.

We do not lack cars to put on the roads, planes to fly in the air,
bottled water to buy from our supermarkets.

We do not lack computers, televisions, trainers, foodstuffs, gin, or
legal advice. All these goods and services are supplied by a
competitive market.

It's when government involvement becomes too intrusive that things
fall apart."


regards


The man's an eejit. He obviously has his head so far up his backside that
he doesn't remember that since M Thatcher, and continued under T Blair,
practically all the infrastructure has been privatised. So it isn't true
to say that the essential services are supplied and controlled by
government any longer. Like good little free marketeers, governments since
1979 of each persuasion have happily handed the control over to private
enterprise. So it's them you have to blame for crap services.

Name me a single sector that was privatised, that has performed worse in the
private sector, go on, just one, a single one, go on.


Gaz


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