[tammac]

yeah,, and yes the 3.3 billion quid isn't enough, if they can pay that off bonuses, after what they've done to this country and others, take the lot of their (earnings?) it would probably pay the national debt, if privatisation has generally lowered the prices of everything? why are we paying through the nose, for everything, or do you live in a part of the country immune to price changes, B.T., like all the utilities, thatcher, and her crew saw what could be made from them by the captains of industry(those people who sit with the F.T. and watch their shares(really hard workers) but, to make a bit of money, the industries had to be streamlined, yes, you've guessed, pay of hundreds of thousands of workers, the usual method of making money employed by entrepreneurs,really clever, the correct name for that lot is Asset-Strippers, so give us a break with all this **** about privatisation.