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My post said it all. I didnt even need to be demented to write it!

 

Your post didn't identify the "alternative party" so I made the assumption it was Reform UK. Maybe I misinterpreted it and you were just being ironic with reference to the 14 years of Tories vs a few months of Labour bit.

Anyway, I do think we need an alternative to the established parties but an ultra right-wing party led by the biggest shitbag since Oswald Mosely isn't the answer.

 

That's privatisation for you, utilities should belong to the country,not for profiteering.

 

We don’t have a choice who provides our water.

We don’t have a choice not to take the product either.

Consumers have zero choice whatsoever when it comes to water supply and sanitation. We have to keep paying whatever we are told.

The fact that this is to publicly listed companies handing over huge dividends to shareholders (be they abroad or otherwise is completely irrelevant to me) is worlds of wrong.

Water supply and sanitation should be publicly owned and not for profit.

Trains, gas, electric - you can choose who to use and in some cases whether to at all. Privatising those was poor and I’d get all those back in house in due course. The water has to be done first, though, surely? And soon. Paying them even more to literally pump **** into our rivers and seas and charge us for it, it’s a disgrace.

However blaming labour for not instantly reversing privatisation inside six months is a tad laughable. What were they going to do, create / amend the law to enforce compulsory purchases, create a whole utility sector from scratch and dream up the multiple billions it would cost to buy the companies out and set it up?

Do me a favour.

 

100% spot on

 

Big business loves Socialism when it's the public paying for its own negligence and dividend payouts.

 

I have been a Labour supporter all my life. However I had higher hopes for this government than I'm seeing. I'm actually worried about our future as a nation when you see the stats of things like mass / illegal immigration, inflation on the rise again, crime rising, etc. It's early days and I know things wont happen overnight but im not impressed so far. Equally we had years of Tory rule that proved to be bad. We destroyed a lot of progress and the party were in it for their own gains.

So what im saying is I think the country is crying out for a credible alternative. I'm not saying reform, nor am I saying green or lib dems. However I think we need a better alternative to challenge the big 2. Unfortunately the direction the nation are swinging to right now is to the right. Maybe plays into Reforms hands.

 

Blame the greedy Muppets at the top of these companies not the Tories.

Labour could have changed things in the Blair years but did nothing either. Current Labour government won't do owt.