30 years ago, Tories privatised water companies in England & Wales.
There were 36 companies at the time.
The entire sale raised £7.6bn.
The companies merged & now just 15 remain.
They're foreign owned & most avoid paying taxes.
...& we also pay them £5bn a year, every year.
@UKnoGum most of the time, 'conservative' seems to mean the exact opposite of 'conserving'...
@punissuer
It's an irony that the right-wing seem to adopt names for organisations that are the exact opposite of their intention.
Two spring to mind:
Conservatives... Destroy things.
Libetarians... Curtail freedoms.