Comments by "Alan hat" (@alanhat5252) on "LBC"
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@sophiagrace7008 sorry, that's not entirely correct. At the end of each utility, usually around a decade, yes they were horrendously expensive & badly run, but that was Gov't policy in order to ready the public for privatization. Prior to that run-down the utilities worked quietly & efficiently in the background, almost always for less cost to the public purse. We see this currently with the NHS as it's in the final stages before breakup & sale.
Obviously there were exceptions, Bazelgette's sewerage network in London was hugely expensive & had great fanfare but it achieved it's objective, it rid London of cholera & it disappeared into the background quickly enough. Pickfords was nationalized & privatized with no fanfare whatsoever, the same with the National Grid & the trunk road network, but privatized sewerage has been in the news for months, Pickfords canal operations collapsed & it's road haulage bought out, the National Grid has had more controversy since privatization & the trunk roads are in a parlous state.
And whatever happened to BRS? While nationalized they gave us the Scammel Scarab which led to our current articulated lorries - supermarkets re-stocked from a single 26 ton delivery rather than dozens of lorries, this made the large supermarkets feasible.
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