Thread by @evolvepolitics

To all those saying "the Tories wouldn't privatise the NHS! Why would they want to?":

Well, here's a thread of every British asset, industry and public service the Tories have privatised:

* British Petroleum (1977, 1979, 1981, 1987)
* International Computers Limited (1979)
* Lunn Poly (1971)
* Rolls-Royce Motors (1973)
* State Management Scheme (1973)
* Thomas Cook (1972)
* British Aerospace (1981, 1985)
* Alvis (1981)
* Coventry Climax (1982)

* Amersham International (1982)
* Associated British Ports (1983, 1984)
* Sealink (1984)
* Jaguar (1984)
* Trustee Savings Bank (1985)
* British Airways Helicopters (1986)
* British Gas (1986)
* Rolls-Royce (1987)
* Royal Ordnance (1987)
* British Airports Authority (1987)

* Danish Automobile Building (1987)
* ISTEL (1987)
* Leyland Bus (1987)
* British Airways (1987)
* British Leyland
* Leyland Tractors (1982)
* Leyland Trucks (1987)
* Rover Group (1988)
* Unipart (1987)
* British Rail Engineering Limited (1989)

* British Shipbuilders (1985-1989, shipbuilder companies sold individually)
* British Steel plc (1988)
* British Sugar (1981)
* British Telecom (1984, 1991, 1993)
* British Transport Hotels (1983)
* Britoil (1982, 1985)
* Cable and Wireless (1981, 1983, 1985)

* Council houses (1980–present, over two million sold to their tenants)
* Enterprise Oil (1984)
* Fairey (1980)
* Ferranti (1982)
* Harland and Wolff (1989)
* Inmos (1984)
* Municipal bus companies (1988–present, bus companies sold individually)

* National Bus Company (1986 - 1988, bus companies sold individually)
* National Express (1988)
* National Freight Corporation (1982)
* Passenger transport executive bus companies (1988 - 1994, bus companies sold individually)
* Travellers Fare (1988)

* Vale of Rheidol Railway (1989)
* Water companies -
* Anglian Water (1989)
* North West Water (1989)
* Northumbrian Water (1989)
* Severn Trent (1989)
* South West Water (1989)
* Southern Water (1989)
* Thames Water (1989)
* Welsh Water (1989)

* Wessex Water (1989)
* Yorkshire Water (1989)
AEA Technology (1996)
Belfast International Airport (1994)
Birmingham Airport (1993 - 51%)
Bournemouth Airport (1995)
British Coal (1994)
British Energy (1996)

British Rail
* 3 rolling stock companies:
* Angel Trains (1996)
* Eversholt Leasing (1996)
* Porterbrook (1996)
* 6 design office units (1995-1997, sold individually)
* 6 freight operating companies
* Freightliner (1995)
* Loadhaul (1996)

* Mainline Freight (1996)
* Rail Express Systems (1996)
* Transrail Freight (1996)
* 6 track renewal units (1995 - 1997, sold individually)
* 7 infrastructure maintenance units (1995 - 1997, sold individually)

* 25 train operating companies (1996, operations contracted out as franchises)
* British Rail Research (1996)
* British Rail Telecommunications (1995)
* European Passenger Services (1996)
* Railtrack (1996)
* Red Star Parcels (1995)
* Union Railways (1996)

British Technology Group (1992)
Building Research Establishment (1997)
Cardiff Airport (1995)
Central Electricity Generating Board
* National Grid (1990)
* National Power (1991, 1995)
* Powergen (1991, 1995)

Chessington Computer Centre (1996)
East Midlands Airport (1993)
Girobank (1990)
Laboratory of the Government Chemist (1996)
Liverpool Airport (1990)
London Buses (1994, bus companies sold individually)

London Southend Airport (1993)
National Engineering Laboratory (1995)
National Transcommunications Limited (1990)
Natural Resources Institute (1996)
Northern Ireland Electricity (1993)
Property Services Agency (1994)

Regional electricity companies
* East Midlands Electricity (1990)
* Eastern Electricity (1990)
* London Electricity (1990)
* MANWEB (1990)
* Midlands Electricity (1990)
* Northern Electric (1990)
* NORWEB (1990)
* SEEBOARD (1990)
* Southern Electric (1990)
* SWALEC (1990)

* SWEB Energy (1990)
* Yorkshire Electricity (1990)
Scottish Bus Group (1991, bus companies sold individually)
Scottish Hydro-Electric (1991)
Scottish Power (1991)
Severn Bridge (1992)
Trust Ports (1992–1997, ports sold individually)

* BBC Magazines (2011)
* Behavioural Insights Team (2014 - 67%)
* Bio Products Laboratory (2013 - 80%)
* Constructionline (2015)
* Defence Support Group (2015)
* Dr Foster Intelligence (2015)
* East Coast Trains (2015)
* Eurostar International Limited (2015 - 40%)

* Fire Service College (2013)
* Food and Environment Research Agency (2015 - 75%)
* Government Pipelines and Storage System (2015)
* Lloyds Banking Group (2013, 2014, 2015)
* Manchester Airports Group (2013 - 35%)
* NEC Group (2015)
* Northern Rock (2012)

* Remploy (2012, 2013, 2015, factory businesses sold individually)
* Royal Bank of Scotland Group (2015)
* Royal Mail (2013, 2015)
* The Tote (2011)
* Student loans portfolios (2013)

Think that's it.

Correction: 1977 shouldn't be included in this one - the privatisation of BP was started by Thatcher in 1979.