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Not for the shareholders and especially not for the boards.

It was standard practice under Thatcher's privatisation program for the ministers responsible for pushing the legislation through would suddenly - and completely unexpectedly - be given jobs on the boards of the newly privatised corporations they'd created.

The economy is not run for the likes of you or me or people who can't pay their inflated bills after 'competition' has had its way with them.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu May 22nd, 2008 at 01:04:59 PM EST
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Well, that's unsurprising.  Crazy Maggie did, after all, have bigger balls than anybody else in the Commons.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?
by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu May 22nd, 2008 at 01:18:09 PM EST
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Hey, that reminds of something else in recent history. Wait a second (scritch, scratch, scowl) I have it! The collapse of the Soviet Union and the wholesale theft privatisation of public assets.
by PIGL on Fri May 23rd, 2008 at 08:21:56 AM EST
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