British-Conservatism

Just noticed you display the EU are you pro-EU?

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Westcountryman

No, it's purely there to wind up YCHTT, who insists I'm a 'traitor'.

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BonnieDundee

Who says? Do you empirical evidence for this assertion? I'm not actually talking about a strawman of nationalisation here but different kinds of ownership. I'm generally in favour of forms of private ownership over state ones but your analysis is poor and simplistic, nationalised and private entreprise mean little in themselves, it is much more important what the forms of administration the industries take are.
The same is true for for any industry not dominated by a large number of small firms. It also begs the question of how you are measuring efficiency. In a large corporation for instance control and ownership are split, the executives who are very far from the ground floor attempt to maximise not industrial efficiency but income for the shareholders. Hence there it is unlikely that a large corporation is going to very efficient, it is much the same as centralised state ownership.

Well firstly in areas dominated by oligopoly and monopoly there is not too much competition and there is no a priori reason why competition must be better than some forms of public ownership.

You certainly can, I'm not defending centralised state ownership but even it can incorporate all of this. You are using very simplistic analysis.

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