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Originally Posted by Osem
Thames Water has had to spend billions on rebuilding, repairing and replacing vast amounts of infrastructure for one. There was never enough money in public hands to enable the utilities to modernise for the future, hence it was all too often put off, just like replacing all those Victorian sewers we've known for decades would need to be replaced. Keeping pace, if at all, rather than building for the future seems to me what we got under nationalisation. Yes it could and should have been different but it wasn't.
I didn't say we had frequent power cuts or shortages in the past but the lack of investment, had these things not been privatised, would by now have left us with even bigger problems. Just look at the handling of nuclear power and we're still in a state of flux with that...
I wish that it'd had been different and I do think there's a strong case for HMG having control of certain key assets/utilities but if our politicians haven't made it work well in the past why would we imagine they can/will now?
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Hmmm, for some reason I can't recall any water shortages in the Greater London area pre-privatisation.
Oh wait a minute, I forgot following many reservoir closures on privatisation Thames Water came up with a brilliant plan of
recycling.
As regards those aging Victorian sewers what a
cash cow that is turning out to be for Thames Water.