Personally i have always thought it wrong to have essential public services gas,electric water in private hands,where private companies profit at our expense from our basic needs,interestingly the french and germans do to, as theirs is still publicly owned and we as a nation cannot buy into theirs even if we wanted. What has happened is our essential services were privatised and have now largely been bought by the state owned french and german power giants,or in the case of scottish power the spanish,with some of the ripped off profits going to those countries.
Whilst we pay some of the highest prices in europe,and the government has little or no control, as seemingly the regulator does not and will not act on our behalf to get prices down.
When the conservatives sold these companies off i refused to buy the shares out of principle,but others sadly did to make a very small quick buck,but along with the rest of us are now paying back that quick buck in higher prices,my only consolation is that a lot of todays pensioners who now moan about high fuel prices, are some of the people responsible for that situation in my eyes, "act in haste repent at leisure" seems to be the maxim here.
