Comment on Water firms ask for bill rises of between 24% and 91%

• nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And Northern Ireland, but let’s be honest, Scotland has it’s own issues with nationalised bodies cough ferries cough so we Scots can’t sit here with too smug a grin on our faces. I’m sure Northern Ireland has it’s own issues in this field as well, but I don’t live there so I pay less attention to that.

  I broadly agree with nationalising critical infrastructure like water, electricity and gas, some other key infrastructure like railways, the post office and probably a few others I can’t think of at this moment in time but it’s far from perfect and isn’t going to make everything perfect overnight.

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  • Streetlights@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dinnae get me started on those bastard ferries. Scandalous from head to toe.

    You’re absolutely right that nationalising something doesn’t automatically make it function. What it does fix however, is equity and profits being siphoned off and moved out of the country to foreign stakeholders for example.

    If private infrastructure fails, the public is still on the hook for it whether it’s privately owned or not.

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