FabSwingers.com forum: What would you nationalise

By *exySwing3rs OP Couple
over a year ago

In Your Hearts

Rail & Energy Companies definitely.

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By *r mrs pCouple
over a year ago

taunton

"Rail & Energy Companies definitely."

Fab

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Railways. Leave the rest nationialised

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By *acdoodleMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

Swingers clubs

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

It would be far too expensive to renationlise Energy companies though, it's also far too late to turn around the tide of greed.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Are you Dennis Healy in disguise

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The NHS !

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By *acreadCouple
over a year ago

central scotland

The lot and let the profit go back to central government.

See how right Maggie was, we are all better off in the free market look how the big utility companies are fighting among themselves lowering prices to attract customers.

Wonder where the money came from to give that guy his £13,000000 pay off after a few yrs of robbing us just look at your gas/electric bills and you will see.

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By *exySwing3rs OP Couple
over a year ago

In Your Hearts

Oh, how about Sky TV!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The banks....oh, we've already done that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The weather,,,, just so people can blame the government for that too...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Supermarkets

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By *bbandflowCouple
over a year ago

South Devon

Doesn't anybody remember the horror that was the Telephone nationalised industry, and British Leyland..be careful what you wish for.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Doesn't anybody remember the horror that was the Telephone nationalised industry, and British Leyland..be careful what you wish for."

Austin Princesses and Morris Marinas rocked!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The good old BT, £1,000,000 a minute profit 1 month after being given away by that BITCH that i would gladly burn at the stake.

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By *r mrs pCouple
over a year ago

taunton

"The good old BT, £1,000,000 a minute profit 1 month after being given away by that BITCH that i would gladly burn at the stake."

Sorry, they nationalised stakes, cant get them for life nor money now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pile of old tyres will do for that evil cow

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By *bbandflowCouple
over a year ago

South Devon

"The good old BT, £1,000,000 a minute profit 1 month after being given away by that BITCH that i would gladly burn at the stake."

Waiting until six o'clock to not pay premium call rates..three minutes max..yes good old BT

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Doesn't anybody remember the horror that was the Telephone nationalised industry, and British Leyland..be careful what you wish for."

Yes, if you had a problem you spoke to someone in your local exchange who sent a bloke in a van around to fix it, NOW you speake to someone in Bangalore, the Phillapines, or Mumbai who has a bad comand of the English laguage and a time delayed telephone - well thats progress!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The good old BT, £1,000,000 a minute profit 1 month after being given away by that BITCH that i would gladly burn at the stake."

I would nationalise spleen venting. We would be rolling in cash

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By *bbandflowCouple
over a year ago

South Devon

"Doesn't anybody remember the horror that was the Telephone nationalised industry, and British Leyland..be careful what you wish for.

Austin Princesses and Morris Marinas rocked!

True..principally because you shOOK the shit out of them for being so crap!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Doesn't anybody remember the horror that was the Telephone nationalised industry, and British Leyland..be careful what you wish for.

Austin Princesses and Morris Marinas rocked!

True..principally because you shOOK the shit out of them for being so crap!"

Careful, the good people of Coventry will be out on strike with comments like that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

what you all forget is that it was costing the taxpayer more to keep these utility companies going than it was bringing money into the treasury, so maggie had no real choice, plus the unions have killed most of our industry with strike after strike, but you never see a poor union leader wonder why, but dont get me wrong maggie should have put conditions to the sale of these companies but her ministers at the time advised her not to.Yes it is easy to blame her but us as citizens should also take the blame as well and also the unions.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The private rail companies get more in state funds than British rail ever did.

That argument is about as much use as Dave and his band of thieving bastards.

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By *bbandflowCouple
over a year ago

South Devon

"Doesn't anybody remember the horror that was the Telephone nationalised industry, and British Leyland..be careful what you wish for.

Austin Princesses and Morris Marinas rocked!

True..principally because you shOOK the shit out of them for being so crap!

Careful, the good people of Coventry will be out on strike with comments like that!

Huh, have no problem with the citizens of Coventry, was their Lady Godiva in 2006..lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Doesn't anybody remember the horror that was the Telephone nationalised industry, and British Leyland..be careful what you wish for.

Austin Princesses and Morris Marinas rocked!

True..principally because you shOOK the shit out of them for being so crap!

Careful, the good people of Coventry will be out on strike with comments like that!

Huh, have no problem with the citizens of Coventry, was their Lady Godiva in 2006..lol"

With your boobies? The horse must have thought he had gone deaf!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The private rail companies get more in state funds than British rail ever did.

That argument is about as much use as Dave and his band of thieving bastards."

There you go, more money in the National Spleen Venting Bank...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You know who it is just by the description then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You know who it is just by the description then

No, I just recognise chips when I see them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You and me both

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Renationalise railways first as infrastructure essential and as we already subsidise railways to a degree control fares instead of all the private companies that get our money for being shite.

Stop privatisation of nhs if folk want an american style healthcare based on ability to pay then join bupa etc.

As soon as the governments of this country tried running as a business via trusts its got worse more management than staff nowadays.

Next would be water a natural resource should not be left to money makers determing cost of supplying it. One body should control the lot would be hopefully more efficient and less fragmented than at present.

Next gas and electric how on earth can say for example a french firm decide cost of electric say at ten pence per unit and another company twelve pence it comes from same source generally national grid. One crew to run it one charge for all in country based on amount used.

Same as above with gas.

The only one i believe that has worked for benefit of most is telecommunication there is diversity and competion that drives costs down.

Elecricity and gas are run as cartels at no benefit for consumers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It is not the role of government to be the main employer for the people it governs. It's role is to ensure that government is run efficiently and transparently and nationalising companies would not achieve that. I don't believe that any company should be nationalised and I would support selling off every corporation currently owned/managed by the government into private ownership and let it compete on a level playing field with it's competitors.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The lot and let the profit go back to central government.

See how right Maggie was, we are all better off in the free market look how the big utility companies are fighting among themselves lowering prices to attract customers.

Wonder where the money came from to give that guy his £13,000000 pay off after a few yrs of robbing us just look at your gas/electric bills and you will see."

You must have a very poor memory if you can remember anything nationalised that was not a tax payer black hole.

Telephones - BT was a joke and completely mismanaged. Railways - maybe a train would come maybe it wouldn't. Leyland Motors - say no more.....

Just exactly which industries do you want to see profit from?

Energy bills are so high by the way primarily as a consequence of our desire to be good citizens of the world and pay more for green energy. If the energy companies were nationalised there would be no effort by the government to hide the extra cost and it would be very much easier for them to levy it.

Be careful what you wish for....

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Ah! The pipe dream of the free market.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The French and Germans have it right dont they.

Nationalised industries and profit making.

Maybe we should stop the loonies letting their mates run things.

No matter who is in power they put their mates first, corrupt and thieves under different coloured flags.

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By *hetalkingstoveMan
over a year ago

London

"It is not the role of government to be the main employer for the people it governs. It's role is to ensure that government is run efficiently and transparently and nationalising companies would not achieve that. I don't believe that any company should be nationalised and I would support selling off every corporation currently owned/managed by the government into private ownership and let it compete on a level playing field with it's competitors."

The role of government is to help people live their lives, part of which is enabling them to have affordable fuel, travel, etc. If you think privitisation is the way to do that given the evidence you're seriously in denial.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

It's called CONservative economic policy and is wrought by the Eton Mess. Happily, I have no chip on my shoulder, as I have admitted some small detail of my life outside of fab to a guy from here.

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By *acreadCouple
over a year ago

central scotland

"You know who it is just by the description then

No, I just recognise chips when I see them

Well do you agree with the man or not? if not do your research.

It is now billions not millions.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh, how about Sky TV!"

Yeah so they'll probably make the remotes smaller....means I can take one of those ridiculous size comparison pics lol.

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By *acreadCouple
over a year ago

central scotland

"The lot and let the profit go back to central government.

See how right Maggie was, we are all better off in the free market look how the big utility companies are fighting among themselves lowering prices to attract customers.

Wonder where the money came from to give that guy his £13,000000 pay off after a few yrs of robbing us just look at your gas/electric bills and you will see.

You must have a very poor memory if you can remember anything nationalised that was not a tax payer black hole.

Telephones - BT was a joke and completely mismanaged. Railways - maybe a train would come maybe it wouldn't. Leyland Motors - say no more.....

Just exactly which industries do you want to see profit from?

Energy bills are so high because of payoffs as above that and bleeding us dry so they can pay the shareholders and there is no restrain whatsoever from the government.

Be careful what you wish for...."

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

it's equally not the role of any government to facilitate the conditions whereby its citizens are fleeced by TNC's, infrastructure franchise owners and 'utility companies'..

then again if the Politicians of any government go cap in hand and are in bed with the 'free market' its not a surprise..

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By *acreadCouple
over a year ago

central scotland

Another reason these utility companies and multinationals get more or less a free hand is our corrupt MPs eventually sit on boards for as little as an hour per month for 25k a year not bad when you consider some are on multiple board it is nothing but thank you money for being allowed to fleece the people they are elected to represent most are only interested in them and theirs.

And Wishy if you believe its a level playing field then you just don't look around you price fixing is all around us but Cameron etc has no desire to do anything about it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Energy bills - sample comparison cost per kwh in $ cents as of sept 2012 (source Wikipedia)

UK - 17.85

France - 19.39

Germany - 31.41

Spain - 22.73

Denmark - 40.38

Brazil - 34.18

Our bills are relatively low unless you compare with Third World countries and North America.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

"The private rail companies get more in state funds than British rail ever did.

That argument is about as much use as Dave and his band of thieving bastards.

There you go, more money in the National Spleen Venting Bank...

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why because hes telling the truth ? we the tax payer put four times more money into the private rail companys than we ever did in nationalised days . but hey its cheaper to travel by train now isnt it ????

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By *acreadCouple
over a year ago

central scotland

"The private rail companies get more in state funds than British rail ever did.

That argument is about as much use as Dave and his band of thieving bastards.

There you go, more money in the National Spleen Venting Bank...

why because hes telling the truth ? we the tax payer put four times more money into the private rail companys than we ever did in nationalised days . but hey its cheaper to travel by train now isnt it ????"

Think that guy has never been on a train, easier to get a seat in India trains late or don't run and of course we have to pay a a lot more than ever for a ticket and even if you don't travel by train you stay pay a lot more as said they are given billions every year for the shit service. and it is a lot cheaper to travel in most of Europe but head in the sand in here again.

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By *acreadCouple
over a year ago

central scotland

"Energy bills - sample comparison cost per kwh in $ cents as of sept 2012 (source Wikipedia)

UK - 17.85

France - 19.39

Germany - 31.41

Spain - 22.73

Denmark - 40.38

Brazil - 34.18

Our bills are relatively low unless you compare with Third World countries and North America."

You are seriously quoting this table when it explains there are a number of things not taken into consideration and that's apart from the fact the dates from some countries are over a year apart and the UK has had big% rises from the UKs date on the table which September 1st 2012. Some are March 2011

Uk will be well near the top now.

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