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  Oh, I remember...
  
  The deliberate running-down of public assets to make them cheaper to privatise and to make the privatisation look good. (in the early years). British Rail.
  The hiking of the gas tariffs to make electricity competitive. All the better for privatisation.
  The advertising and low price of GPO-Telecom Shares to allow instant profits for a very few.
  Right up to today with the emphasis on "Free at the point of use." with the current Privatisation of the NHS.
  
  Let us not forget Royal Mail. Where the boss is paid huge sums for overseeing the worsening of the postal service and all the talk of e-mail traffic replacing letter-writing and the ignoring of online shopping and the post it generates.
  
  If a Public Asset is worth selling it is worth selling cheap and we can always count upon the Conservatives to ensure that things will always look bad just prior to the sell of. Hey-presto, isn't Privatisation wonderful.
  
  All of this to one side. We do not have to look back at all to see terrible days. The merits of tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee Governments over recent years and decades are plain to see.

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