SM,

I did agree that there are certain businesses best left in private hands, the Burger Business as an example. Profits are not always a reliable indicator of efficiency. Large organisations, be they private or public, by their nature tend to have bureaucratic inefficiencies built in. Small business and sole traders can run poor businesses and still be profitable, but they tend to be less so. In the case of the CBA, I was correct in saying when it was in government hands it was Australia's leading savings and trading bank. I would expect with years of economic growth, today it would return substantially more than it did in yesteryear. Australia Post is a good example of a profit driven autonomous government enterprise. Although in AP's case government insists it operate a huge loss making letter business. Who is barking to keep Australia Post in government hands not Labor or the Greens so much, but the Nationals. QANTAS operated as well as any private airline when government owned, yet recently as a private company billions of taxpayer dollars have been poured in to keep it afloat. When Australia operated the two airline domestic policy, it was in place not to protect the public airline TAA, but the privately owned Ansett. and it was Ansett that finally crashed and burned in the free market, not the other way around.

You call out Labor and the Greens as proposing "failed policies of the 1950's", yet leave out the party that puts the biggest demands on the public purse the National Party. In its early days the Country Party (todays Nationals) was very much a quasi-socialist party, closer to the ALP than the Nationals (todays Liberals). As you can see from "negotiations" between the Nats and Liberals on CC policy, the Nats are not adverse to having billions spent on public enterprise when it suits them, so called infrastructure for the bush, little more than pork barrelling. Take Barnyard Joys and the announcements he has been making about inland rail, totally unapproved and out of order.

In the words of the Old Man; "The Country Party politics is not driven by philosophy, but by the weather. In a bad season they are Communist, in a good season they are Capitalists." True.

I know Margie Thatcher is a pin up gal of the conservative right, but there is more to the story of post war Britain than meets the eye. Britain was very much an economic loser from WWII. Pre war it had done very nicely from its Empire, post war the empire was gone and Britain was suffering from huge international debt, the war virtually bankrupted the country. The money people of America, which had done oh so nicely out of the war seen better investment opportunities elsewhere. Coupled with the economic situation Britain still suffered from a pre war class division of "them and us" from both sides. Industrially Britain was inefficient and run down, totally lacking in investment. The arbitration system was based on conflict between employers and employees, which perpetuated long and economically harmful strikes. There were socialist radicals on the workers side, as well as radical Capitalists on the employers side, conflict was the norm.

Britain needed economic reform, and industrial reform was part of that. Thatcher was right in what she done, but she was wrong in placing all the blame for the economic situation on the workers. Instead of approaching reform in a balanced way, she simply attempted to smash the workers and bludgeon them into submission. Thatcher was successful, but many Britain's paid a heavy price for her belligerent approach.

SM,

You accused Andrews of murdering people with Covid. Anything to say about 500 dead in NSW thanks to the GLADYS VIRUS? Remember the failure of the Berejiklian Government and "Mr Limo Driver", the shambles of a response from NSW Un-Healthy Minister The Hazzard! Why is that clown still in an overpaid job, and not in jail?

Back on topic, Pork Barilaro appeared before the ICAC yesterday, and tipped his pork barrel all over poor Gladys. More to come.

Paul,

As far as I recall, you used the term murdered first.

Victoria still has 60% of all the fatalities in Australia. NSW is still far better than Victoria.

Dan's virus has killed more than 1400.

P.s. JB essentially said that there was no corruption.

SM,

"As far as I recall, you used the term murdered first." No, I believe you did as I was a little circumspect about the use of the word "murder", but after no ramifications from anyone on here, I now attribute "murder" to the Berejiklian mob. Lets move on from there.

Pork Barilaro did say while giving evidence that Gladys should have disclosed her relationship with Darling Daryl to him and others. Porky went on to say such knowledge would have given rise to possible different outcomes had he and other known of the relationship. The noose is tightening around poor Gladys neck, what some will do for love, even if its from some balled headed git.

In the Dan Andrews total, are you including all those who died due to the SCOTTY VIRUS in private aged care, and those who died due to Morrison failures in quarantine? Are you also including recent deaths due to the exporting of the GLADYS VIRUS into Victoria. I think you are.

You make no comment on the GLADYS VIRUS, are you happy to see one million deaths in NSW, provided one million and one die in Victoria, providing you are not one of either lot. The logic of a First World War general.

I see you didn't respond to what I said about your philosophical view that "private good, public bad line". did I wipe the floor with you one that one, me thinks so.