Yes : governments all over Europe sell up natural monopolies and squander the money, while claiming "Brussels made us do it" and trying not to smirk.

That said, the EU directives are framed in such a way as to favour this "solution", by demanding that utilities be run like a business... And what business does government have running businesses? Eh?

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Yes, sorry.