Thread: Will Scotland Leave the UK?
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Old 14-10-2020, 22:14   #3448
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Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK?
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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
Phones were always government owned, post office etc, granted.

British Rail - formed from private rail companies from 1948.

British Leyland - formed from private car companies. 1975

Electricity - National Grid and Regional DNO’s - The Electricity Act 1947 (repealed 1989) merged 625 electricity companies to be vested in twelve area electricity boards whilst the generation and 132 kV National Grid were vested with the British Electricity Authority.

Water - initially private enterprises but quickly brought into public ownership in the mid-late 1800’s. Not a bad thing at the time.

Coal - National coal board - formed from private coal companies in 1946.

Gas - formed of private gas companies in 1948

Steel - formed of private companies in 1949, unnationalised in 1952, renationalised in 1967.

So really the only one is BT, which was government owned from inception being part of the Royal Mail.

Happy for you to prove me wrong.

That said, given the time and how important it was at that time....water And sanitation probably best run by the authorities. So you can have that too.
Almost all of those in the national interest and worthy of nationalisation. Only cars appear to exist in a genuinely competitive market. The rest are oligopolies, so consumers don’t benefit from perfect equilibrium in pricing.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Scotland-based Brexit voters against Scottish independence:
If you knew what you know now about the increase in support for Scottish independence; encouraged by Brexit; leading to a risk of Scottish independence and likely re-joining of the EU by Scotland in the future, would you have still voted Leave?
Max?

Edit apologies - Chris too.
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