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That is the point, a profit making business and for that you need to look at the whole. Our 'invisible earnings' include income from financial services, tourism and outsourced expertise. They are invisible because much of it does not show up in trade figures. What we must avoid is damaging what are massive earners for the UK that also provide hundreds of thousands of jobs. What you say - copied and pasted ""I just feel that the UK has sold off too many of the assets that could help us recover from this economic disaster"" assumes that nationalised industries are actually a asset that would help with this but that is not the case, they would be liabilities in government hands holding us back and adding to the deficit. We have seen it before. It is the collective might of private businesses on which we depend for economic success and they operate under the excessive weight of government legislation, red tape and taxation along with, ultimately, funding every penny of government spending and servicing the national debt. We need to relieve this burden with supply-side reform,s to help business to do what it is good at and, most of all, we need to help those that may become the big employers of the future, the small business sector but remember, they do not operate in a vacuum and we cannot ignore or punish big businesses either.