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Originally Posted by jfman

Decades of propaganda has gone into the fallacy of the “efficiency” of the private sector, and the pretence that four or five companies or providers constitutes a genuinely free market as opposed to a cartel.

Sure there were probably some immediate efficiencies. However fundamentally cutting costs means cutting wages or cutting corners. Ploughing excrement into the sea a classic example of the latter.

The energy companies are enjoying their windfalls. Now it’s the banks having their turn. Essentially the wealth of the nation - declining - is being extracted. Trickle up economics.

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Originally Posted by jfman

The “good” news is by the time Sir Keir has pandered to Murdoch and u-turned on about every commitment he’s ever made he will basically be Tory.

But his front bench will be largely socialist tax mongers.