[Luckypants]

Agreed that national infrastructure should be owned by the nation, not private companies and certainly not foreign private companies. Welsh Water are meant to be not for profit and owned by Welsh Government. Their record on infrastructure maintenance and sewage discharge is woeful - a lack of regulation is causing this. The not for profit part is a joke too, there is always a surplus and its not clear what happens to it. Clearly it does not go into pipe renewal! Welsh Water shows that this model does not work either.

Direct control is needed of all utility / national infrastructure so nationalisation seems the right way, but will need strong management to keep to 'service driven' aims. Lucrative contracts and the back hander gravy train will need to be weeded out.

I suspect this subject would generate an entire thread.