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Conservatives float plans for massive privatisation
Telegraph ^

Posted on 09/05/2009 2:19:14 PM PDT by newbie2008

Selling off a range of public bodies would be a "get out of jail card" as the Tories desperately try to balance the books, according to tax lawyer Charlie Elphicke, who has advised the party's economic team. John Redwood, chair of the Conservatives' economic competitiveness commission, has published proposals on his blog for the sale of Britain's motorway network while Ed Vaizey, the shadow arts minister, last week suggested selling off Radio 1.

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1 posted on 09/05/2009 2:19:14 PM PDT by newbie2008
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To: newbie2008

This same idea is what righteous conservatives in America should be “floating,””promoting” and exciting the voting public with at THIS TIME!!! Anything else is a WASTE OF TIME!!!


2 posted on 09/05/2009 2:27:00 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Obama Targets Medicare Advantage Plans (Seniors Are Getting Screwed!!!))
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To: newbie2008

Another example of how so much of the civilized world is moving to the right, leaving the USSA a putrid backwater of Soviet-style stagnation.


3 posted on 09/05/2009 3:13:30 PM PDT by ScottinVA (I remember Jack Kennedy... Jack Kennedy was a President of mine.. and Teddy, you're no Jack Kennedy!)
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To: newbie2008

They won’t be able to save their budget until they do away with the bloated national health service, which I doubt they will do.

I wonder if anyone is in a position to buy this stuff? Nobody seems to have any money these days. Perhaps Soros could take over the BBC. He would like that.


4 posted on 09/05/2009 8:38:14 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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