(not satire – it’s UK today)
Everyone’s talking about how we’ve lost sovereignty to the EU and how we should have a referendum before any more powers are handed over to Brussels – but what about this government’s decision to sell off our infrastructure to foreign countries like China?
Chinese state investment and control in UK water, nuclear power, rail, gas, airports and telecommunications – or by private firms with close links to Beijing – is already growing massively and is set to expand even more in the next couple of years as the government sells off more and more of our infrastructure to foreign investors.
The mouthpiece of China’s Communist Party – the People’s Daily – just two days ago described the country’s forthcoming investment in UK infrastructure as ‘explosive’.
See the English version of its article here:
China’s investment in UK will be ‘explosive’
Maybe you feel relaxed about the fact that a country with a disastrous record on rail safety, human rights, water pollution and communication censorship is being allowed to take control of our water, rail, communications, nuclear power etc.
But if we’re going to have a referendum on how much power the EU has over us, shouldn’t we have one over how much control of our infrastructure we’re handing to foreign countries like China?
Surely these things are much more important than whether prisoners have the right to vote or whatever the latest spat over the EU is?
What do you think?
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China – Happy To Help Out Struggling Developing Countries Like Britain
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Surely the EUSSR would have something to say about this. It looks like it could be gang warfare with the triads and the mafia shooting it out in the High Street. As usual, we the masses have nothing to say about it, all we can do is keep paying the protection money.
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And roads! You forgot the idea floated that we should sell our roads to the Chinese! In a speech at the beginning of the year, Francis Maude said that they wanted everything to be in private ownership. Was that in their manifesto?
Why aren’t we on the streets?
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Bloody good question Sue.
When I started looking at what the Chinese in particular were buying up in the UK – I started to get so worried I had to stop looking. It’s just about – well – everything.
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The significant point is that when an asset is privatised, we lose our right to any sort of transparency or audit* because of commercial secrecy. The owners can also withdraw the service or sell it on to whomsoever they like without our having any rights to object. As you know the various ombudsmen have very little sanction and are rarely prepared to use it on behalf of the public. We already have examples of private companies abolishing GP surgeries and deciding that they no longer want to treat patients over a particular age.
* The Audit Commission was abolished by the Tories in the Quango bonfire !
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I’m glad the penny is starting to drop with an increasing number of people. It’s yet another part of the planned downward shift in western standards of living.To voice one’s suspicions over such matters until very recently would have resulted in accusations of conspiracy theory, or tiresome references to Occams razor.
The current willingness to sell off public assets at no benefit to the public, while it may be legal, is unwise to say the least and immoral at best. If I owned a priceless Rembrandt then to sell it to the highest bidder may be lawful and profitable, but to sell it to someone who wants to use it to fix a hole in the chicken shed is quite another matter.
Why aren’t we on the streets? Because we don’t want to believe it’s true.
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I suppose we can now stop worrying about becoming the 53rd state of the USa?!
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Its all part of a grand globalist agenda to keep the people of the world poor, also irrelavent because when the banking system implodes it wont matter, Europe and USA on the brink their only playing for time. The big boys are buying gold, silver and farmland, tech wont matter when were starving. Most of the privitised industry will be nationalised at that point and the cycle will continue.
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