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Originally Posted by Osem
I don't see how the ultimate ownership of the railways or postal service, say, is a particular threat. It's not like the foreign owners can suddenly decide to shut them down and prevent them working so what's the big threat to the UK?
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If any shananigans like that were to take place we'd deploy troops to force the companies to stay operating in the national interest.
Anyway it's not like nationalised industries don't suffer damaging strikes, remember BL were on strike more than they were making cars in the bad old seventies and British Steel was loosing £3m of tax payers money a DAY.
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