If you make a list of the services and rate them as fit for service as they once were you won’t be surprised to find that services that were once provided by government departments – schools, hospitals, health, highways, public transport, universities, banks, electricity supplies, water supply – rate low on service and high on profit, all as a result of the constant drive for NO taxes and the politicians’ need to hide what taxation is actually paid and by who. It should be no surprise that we still, and will always, need to fund those services.
Services like health now have a system where those that can afford to pay, pay plenty in the private system and the rest are in a variety of ramping in the public system.
Our schools system the same applies to our universities who are racing to the bottom when it comes to ranking.
There is no need to mention the housing problem – it has been done to death .
The failure of Americanisation of our public utilities should be a lesson for all.