Is Competition Working?

Government is keen on competition and yet everywhere you look it doesn't seem to work. Water companies charge what they want and CEs earn £1 million a year. That hardly seems like a lean and keen organisation, but more like fat cats milking the system.

How about your energy bills -- electric and gas? No competition there either. The worse offender is British Gas. Why? Because EDF etc. are subsidising their home nations. People in France and Germany pay less because our bills are deliberately made higher than theirs. British Gas could clean up by undercutting everyone else, but no -- they chose to match their prices at a higher rate because we are gullible. The government is funding a two year study into this sector. They don't need to. All they need to do is compare what people in France and Germany pay and then realise how the UK public are being duped. And which MPs are championing this? None.

How about the roads? Look at the quality of road building. New roads last less than a year before potholes strike. Competition here seems to work, but you get a mess as a result. But has competition driven down prices? In Maidstone the Council funded painting of a line along the high street to make the kerb more visible, That cost £70k. To paint a line!! The M25 junction 5 took 3 years to repair less than 10 miles. 3 years! I wonder what that cost.

Competition fails because councils and government have no idea any more about cost. Everyone is simply trying to get richer on the back of public money. Look at the mess made by Southern Cross old folks homes. I bet the directors are now millionaires. In Edinburgh the parliament building and the trams is a great example of competition not working. In both cases it appears that the project was deliberately underbid and once work started it became an open cheque book for spending.

Governments and councils have lost the plot and see money as something to get rid of. The problem is - it's our money they are wasting.

This says it all about politicians!! :)

£1.5 Trillion National Debt!!? And that's UK doing well? #autumnstatement

This is a disgrace that our debt is so high and reflects how utterly useless MPs are. In their first year in office Tories saved £11 billion by freezing pay. They then gave away £4 billion extra in overseas aid and 7 billion to Irish banks. Odd that the money totalled what they saved. What do all those on a pay freeze think about this, that your money was squandered?

Are Labour any better? Who got us into this debt in the first place? Who allowed big business to hide their profits?

Both are as bad as each other and it reflects that MPs have lost the plot. Let's give a "No-Vote" at the general election. Let's show them how dissatisfied we are.