More than likely, the seller will add the TST to the price of the house and expect the buyer's mortgage to fund it. (View Post)

And that is precisely the problem. Infrastructure might not return a profit, but it should be there for when it is needed. It is also why privatising Network Rail was a boneheaded decision too... (View Post)

The real issue is that there has been a view for quite a long time that everything must return a profit or no money can be spent on it. This includes the sort of infrastructure that, in times like th… (View Post)

It looks like we might get rationing and power cuts anyway, but from the consumer as they have to decide whether to eat or to shiver! On that basis, nationalisation holds little downside. (View Post)

One of these companies paid £700m in dividends to shareholders recently. Customers paid for those dividends. If they had a million customers that is £700 per customer per year. Nationalised industrie… (View Post)