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MisterMunchkin • today at 8:58 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The Tories sold off the national grid, it’s a public listed company now. They don’t want to build infrastructure, they want to maximise shareholder value.


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FridayoLeary • today at 9:03 PM

Privatization might be an avoidable disaster, but nationalization is virtually guaranteed to make things worse. See: every time anything has ever been nationalized. There was a reason these things were sold of in the first place.

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