From KAEB: "Govt; are experts at nothing. which includes utilities. They should not be in business of selling commodities. It takes private enterprise to maintain infrastructure, to a level of reliability"

Is this comment taken directly from the Handbook of Conservative Myths and Mantras by any chance KAEB? As a consumer of electricity, water and gas I was perfectly happy with the quality of service available from the public utilities. Not to mention the fact that every time I paid a bill not one cent of my money went into the bloated accounts of overseas investors. "Private is good, private is more efficient" is total claptrap and and an insult to the very professional people who ran our utilities.

Have you been on a long distance rail journey recently KAEB? Since the privatisation of many of the services? I have and I would have to say that I could see no improvement in the service at all - just the opposite in fact! As I see it, when profit is all that matters,then profit IS all that matters!