Re: OT: Thank the Tories for Rising Energy Bills: They Privatised the Utilities
by Huge <Huge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Aug 14, 2008 at 09:05 AM
On 2008-08-12, Edward Cowling London UK <edward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> I think it's often forgotten that these weren't lame duck industries. In
> fact it would have been hard to find a Merchant Bank to carry out the
> floatation if they had been. When Thatcher started selling off the
> family silver the Telecom, Energy, Rail & Water companies gave the
> treasury about 10% of it's income. So all those profits they made came
> to us !
Rail? Profits?
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