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Originally Posted by Top banana
I remember riding my motorbike and all of a sudden the street lights, house lights - everything went off. I actually thought there was about to be a nuclear bomb explosion! Horrible days.
May be some of the younger folk could do with carrying out a bit of research on what life was like pre privatisation and some of the older folks (Arthur) need to turn off their selective memory
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What's the difference, the light and heating will still be going out except in this case it'll be because people can't afford it rather than strikes and why was the only solution to sell them of?
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Originally Posted by denphone
l know exactly what it was like pre privatisation but can you tell me which privatisation has given us the consumer a better deal and service then we had before and the answer to that is clear for anybody to see nowadays.
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How, they.aren't investing in the case of water companies, these companies aren't competing to give customers a better deal they behave like a cartel.
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Originally Posted by martyh
now that the company has been privatised i would expect to see some changes as competition forces improvements
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Really, I expect to see a cut in services, prices rising and job cuts
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Originally Posted by Qtx
Not sure how it works exactly but some energy suppliers have a scheme for those on low income, disabled or over 75. Something like a rebate at the end of a year of paying or something like that. Not really useful for those that can't afford it in the first place but may help some towards the year after if it is a debit on the account. They don't seem to advertise it or make it easy to find for obvious reasons and I doubt those who can't afford fuel will be paying for internet so they can find it on their websites.
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Iirc that's been scrapped by most if not all companies