Thread: Election 2019 - Week 2
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Old 16-11-2019, 21:42   #93
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Re: Election 2019 - Week 2
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
You can post as much subjective opinion as you like, Old Boy, it doesn't change reality.

You are also ignoring that underinvestment in nationalised industries (and battling the unions) is straight out of the neo-liberal playbook as precursors to privatisation. Those were political choices not the natural evolution of nationalised industry.

The fact that a cable operator installed a phone line subsidised at a fraction of the cost of a BT installation is a total red herring.
My dear chap, I am introducing to you the reality of my experience. You can denigrate it as much as you like, but it is my experience and my views of all this at the time were the popular views. Neysayers such as Michael Foot were laughed out of court.

I am not ignoring the underinvestment in nationalised industries, and I am completely surprised that you haven't worked out, as our self appointed economist, that this is the very problem with nationalised industries - governments don't invest in them!! Additionally, an additional problem is that trade unions become unduly politicised and hold the government to ransom.

Jfman, you must surely be better than this. It is all pretty obvious really and you need to stop putting forwards opinions that appear to be designed to cripple this country.

If you really care about the people who live here and their well being, you need to stop promoting the failed policies of the 1970s, of which most of the younger generation has no knowledge.

The cable example I gave is just one example, to help explain my point. If you think that is my only example, think again.
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