Ofgem calls for ministers to rethink price cap.

I'll spell it out. 
You claim

Because, in the case of a private company, the strike is against a private entity that can only offer what makes some economic sense in terms of the value of the service they provide (sell). The company can also replace its workers without having to go through civil service HR.

But if the service is essential there is no upper limit, and if there is no competition the company cannot go bankrupt. 
The best option for such a private and profit making company is to settle and put its prices up. Hence the 3.5k bill for metre of pipe and a tap. 

Then there's no difference between private and public? Make up your mind, only 5 seconds ago you were claiming public industry unions can ask the tax payer for any amount, no upper limit. 

So those government owned railways franchises couldn't go bankrupt. 


 

So the worst of all worlds. A private owned company where if the owners make a hash of it they just hand it back and walk away. 

It has been my point for a while that the differences are small in the areas you are complaining about. It seems to me the big advantage of the 'private' model is that it makes it less likely the service will be withdrawn to blackmail / coerce the public - it is harder to hijack because of the incentives the management / owners have.

Sometimes i wonder dreamily about the public sector and ask wouldn't the incentives be better if they couldn't get paid unless they actually provide the services government promises - ie unless the border is actually enforced to a certain standard, nobody involved in that arm of governance receives any money? Unfortunately, because of the ambiguity in many government services this is tricky stuff - ie you can't sell border security or low crime as a discreet commodity - umm except perhaps implicitly via the value of secure, low crime land (territory).

You can obviously see Tory propaganda, yet you consistently fall for left-wing propaganda. They are all trying to sell you bullshit so you conform to their narrative.



When you talk about "the rich" you fall for the left-wing equivalent of blaming immigrants and welfare scroungers. The problems of a country are solved by the 80% Average Joe., not the top 1% or the bottom 10%. The rich guy with the swimming pool is a dog whistle red herring, the numbers of those people are so small that they will never subsidise those that need it. That 80% need to pay more taxes, just like they do in the Nordic countries.



Again, your water points are just left-wing propaganda garbage, do some proper research and under the actually problems. We have invested more than anybody else in Europe EVERY year for the last 30 years. You have ignored the cleaner drinking water, less leaks, cleaner rivers and concentrate on sewage release... while ignoring the fact we didn't have any clean beaches before privatisation... they were all notorious for having turds on them. Would I like a nationalised system that was properly funded? Yes of course. However, the fact it failed before is not because of the Tories... it is because THE BRITISH DO NOT LIKE HIGH TAXES. Nothing much is going to change under Starmer, because that snake cannot have an honest conversation with the public. We are living well beyond our means and no amount of populistic bollocks like scrapping charity status for private schools & non-Dom, or issuing windfall taxes is going to raise the taxes we need to improve the country.