← Back to context Comment by ulfw 7 hours ago You must have forgotten Thatcher 1 comment ulfw Reply blibble 6 hours ago she was certainly a fan, but the spark for the match for almost all of the privatisations was EU/EEC directivesif the UK had never joined the EEC those industries would likely still be under government ownership(for better or worse, water certainly was a disaster, but telecoms and airlines seem to have gone reasonably well)and rail was done post Thatcher, with her on record as saying it is "a step too far"
blibble 6 hours ago she was certainly a fan, but the spark for the match for almost all of the privatisations was EU/EEC directivesif the UK had never joined the EEC those industries would likely still be under government ownership(for better or worse, water certainly was a disaster, but telecoms and airlines seem to have gone reasonably well)and rail was done post Thatcher, with her on record as saying it is "a step too far"
she was certainly a fan, but the spark for the match for almost all of the privatisations was EU/EEC directives
if the UK had never joined the EEC those industries would likely still be under government ownership
(for better or worse, water certainly was a disaster, but telecoms and airlines seem to have gone reasonably well)
and rail was done post Thatcher, with her on record as saying it is "a step too far"