tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22403989.post2868544191855944347..comments2024-01-18T10:54:54.459+00:00Comments on Iain Macwhirter Now and Then: SSE - Crooks can be green and Scottish tooiain macwhirterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14486911281896217461noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22403989.post-32551656543717770912015-08-28T13:36:21.720+01:002015-08-28T13:36:21.720+01:00Thank you for the good writeup. It in fact was a a...Thank you for the good writeup. It in fact was a amusement account it. Look advanced to far added agreeable from you! By the way, how could we communicate?voyance gratuitementhttp://www.voyance-gratuitement.frnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22403989.post-42743743936347821652013-04-09T22:26:05.403+01:002013-04-09T22:26:05.403+01:00Not quite right with some of your info. Hydro and ...Not quite right with some of your info. Hydro and sseb were two separate sell offs. It was considered a bad idea to have both Scottish companies combined as it would have the monopoly over Scotland. Sseb re branded as Scottish Power. Nshb re branded as Scottish hydro electric (she). Of course SP lost Torness and Hunterston as the government ruled that no private company could be in control of a nuclear installation and crated BNFL.(changed days now though). Hydro took over southern electric and is re branded as S+SE. Scottish Power took over manweb. That worked out ok. But SP decided to expand into other utilities which seriously went tits up. After a disastrous time in the USA, SP was seriously weakened. Typically they were set up for a take over and the Spanish giant's Iberdrola pounced. Funnily enough BNFL were taken over by the French state owed EDF energy.<br /><br />So whats my point you ask. It's this. These companies before the Thatcher sell of were good companies which made money for the government. The were Queens on the chest board.<br />Now that they are private companies with no allegiance to anyone they have been turned into money making whores.simon tatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22403989.post-60515168511089122252013-04-08T11:03:11.520+01:002013-04-08T11:03:11.520+01:00Every time these people are threatened with a redu...Every time these people are threatened with a reduction in salary, or bonus...and presumably any kind of prosecution... they tell us that they will leave the country; go to India or China, or the Middle East or New York.<br /><br />I wish to hell they would go, but I suspect that if we called their bluff they would be lost for a response.<br /><br />You're right. A guy who steals a couple of thousand pounds from the taxpayer because he doesn't tell the Jobcentre about a part time job he has on a Thursday night, is a thief.<br /><br />The people who steal billions of pounds from the same taxpayers, but who are in with the in crowd, are just mis-sellers who mis-spoke.<br /><br />And as we can see from the Huhne story, on the rare occasions when they do face prosecution, and are sent to prison, their sentence is played out in a beautiful country residence of a prison.<br /><br />What a dump of a country.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com