[discodachshund]

Extremely incorrect. Nationalisation of water polls as a remarkably popular policy with a clear public majority in favour, even among exclusively Tory voters. As does rail.

The lack of movement on the issue is not due to lack of public will, but the lack of desire from a dying government to deliver effective policy.

[madaxe_again]

Which is borne out of electoral choice. It hasn’t been the will of god that the Tories have been running the show unopposed for over a decade - it has been the will of the public.

Renationalisation of water may be popular now, but when everyone was promised cheaper water bills in the 80’s, it was an absolute tub-thumper for thatcher - same for rail - people seem to forget how much British rail was a national symbol of hatred, and the fervor with which privatisation was embraced.

No, this is public will, and governments that realise that by doing whatever idiotic thing the public is demanding today to retain and grow power prosper - at least for long enough for the cabinet to all line up a very comfortable retirement.

By the time the consequences come along, enough time has passed that it can be blamed on literally anything but any of the people responsible, from politicians who implemented it to voters who voted for it.

There seems to be confusion as to where the sewage issue has originated - while it may have manifested relatively suddenly, the circumstances have been building through policy and voter apathy for the last 35 years.

[ben_w]

Each voter has to squeeze multiple preferences over all areas into one single vote each time.

For me, the party options are:

• Red MPs do 35% of what I want

• Blue MPs do 25% of what I want

• Yellow MPs do 49% of what I want, but basically never make any difference because there's so few of them

Which would you pick, if you were me?

I left the country because of what Blue did.