Thread by @D_Raval

We are suffering from privatised energy, water, rail and bus services. Not only are they adding to the #CostofLivingCrisis but they've given us sub standard infrastructure that will buckle under the #ClimateCrisis. Yet there is NO discussion of the failure of privatisation.
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2/ Privatisation has gone further in the UK than any other rich developed country, including the US. We are paying the price for it everyday and that price will grow as the #ClimateCrisis worsens. Both mainstream politics and media simply refuse to even discuss it.

3/ Privatisation is no age old principle like freedom speech that should be beyond question. It's barely 40 years old. We should be discussing it and asking it if it has worked or not? If it we should renationalise?

4/ What are the pros and cons of continued privatisation vs nationalisation?
Mainstream media regularly question and debate the welfare state from the NHS, comprehensive education, the benefit system etc. They give free space to ultra right wing critics of these like the

5/ Tax Payers Alliance and various extremists on the Tory back benchers. Yet they rarely if ever get on speakers from @We_OwnIt, the TUC, left wing think tanks or Labour backbenchers who would argue against continued privatisation and who'd argue for nationalisation.

6/ So, what can we do? We need to aggressively push our agenda as the Right do theirs. We need to stop reacting to whatever clickbait they put out and focus on pushing our messages. An easy way: when you see media tweets on the cost of living crisis,

7/ simply and constructively reply with something like "Renationalisation would fix these issues, why wasn't it discussed?" or "Why was there no speaker talking to renationalisation? It would be a solution to these problems and many people support it" etc.

This Thread on the failure of #Privatisation as a blog post for easier sharing outside of Twitter: dravalblog.wordpress.com/2022/08/15/why…