Water bill is up 30%, primarily to pay interest in bad debt borrowed to enrich shareholders. Gotta pay it this month.

Which brings to mind a philosophical question: Who should own UK infrastructure and industry?

A) The UK government

B) Multinational capitalist enterprise

Thatcher decided (B) and the people never got a referendum on it because Labour decided (B) as well, and it's a two party state really.

It's firmly embedded into the politic. When governments of all colors are insisting they need foreign investment from rich capitalists before they can build anything, they are implicitly accepting (B).

They don't need money, they can print that.

The foreign investment doesn't bring labour, they use local labour.

They are just looking for an owner so the government doesn't have to own it.

There's hidden options too:

C) The workers who work in that enterprise should own it communally and inalienably

D) A cooperative of the customers of the enterprise should own it communally and inalienably

But we don't even talk about those.