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Andy_L said:

sgx2000 said:

Prism said:

sgx2000 said:

Grumpy_chap said:

sgx2000 said:

Tony Blair was the most successful PM im the last 50 years..

Electorally no more successful than Maggie.

Both succeeded in their time to address the challenges of the era.
Both implemented policies that were unpopular while carrying the populace with them.
Both set a vision and led (rather than managed) the country.

Maggie was only suceeded by, selling off all the family silver.... to the wealthy tory voters ....
We owned all the utilities
Now foreign companies own them

Who wants to own and run the utilities? We already control them pretty well with policy without having to run them. 

We control them?  Hahaha

Before the tories sold them off. 
We all paid the same price per unit......
We had large stockpiles of gas  ... remember all those gas towers?
And utility managememt didnt give themselves bonuses in the millions....

Gasometers weren't for stockpiling, there were a pressure regulating mechanism 

Actually Diurnal storage*

Pumped up overnight and gas released over the day. Very expensive to maintain (mostly victorian !) and replaced with "line pack" where pipes underground were oversized and pressured up to hold the gas that used to be in holders.

* although they were at the lowest pressure tier of course.....