This falls under a similar banner to the social care debacle. The railways were nationalised here and all over Europe after the war with the best of intentions. Changes of government meant cost cutting, eventually to the nth degree then re-privatisation which has eventually reminded us why they were de-privatised in the first place. In the Europe whose smooth-running services we all admire, they’re still state-owned. But they have higher taxes than us. You pays your money…
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?