ramone:
Nationalising road transport no ,but nationalising energy companies yes,maybe the oil industry too
+1
Is this C/F Geeza for real or what, He is a right ■■■■ IMO, Regards Larry.
Dave the Renegade:
ramone:
Nationalising road transport no ,but nationalising energy companies yes,maybe the oil industry too+1
The problem isn’t who is in charge it’s how viable the industry is and insulating it from foreign competition and predatory pricing.In the case of power,just like haulage,we’ve allowed the foreign competition to use predatory pricing together with the green nutters CO2 crusade to wipe out our domestic coal industry thereby making us dependent on foreign gas supplies and the other sources of much more expensive sources like nuclear energy used to replace coal.As for oil the problem is all about road fuel duty even though we’re now a net importer having,like gas,flogged off our reserves instead of saving them for domestic use and use nationalised control over it to insulate us from world wholesale prices.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Is this C/F Geeza for real or what, He is a right [zb] IMO, Regards Larry.
To be fair you aren’t exactly the brightest person to make a judgement going by the content of your reasoned arguments here. 
Quite possibly Yes considering the way some companies behave. There are a lot who really shouldn’t be running vehicles because they obviously cannot afford to do so.
Now then, this is a free country and everyone is entitled to his own opinion.
No matter how ridiculously stupid it may be 
Retired Old ■■■■:
Now then, this is a free country and everyone is entitled to his own opinion.No matter how ridiculously stupid it may be
Stupidity doesn’t come much more stupid than the uk’s economic policies over the last 35 years. 
Or the world’s, come to that. With the Far East being the exception, of course. Those little chaps have learned a hell of a lot since 1945.
cav551:
Quite possibly Yes considering the way some companies behave. There are a lot who really shouldn’t be running vehicles because they obviously cannot afford to do so.
Just like fuel if not full nationalised control at least just government control of rates to make sure that they are sufficient to cover costs while not ripping off customers.Although,as I’ve said,ridiculous levels of government taxation like road fuel duty would obviously need to be removed as part of that.IE there’s no point in the government controlling prices to stop firms going under or customers getting ripped off if the government itself is one of the largest contributors to that problem by way of rip off taxation.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Or the world’s, come to that. With the Far East being the exception, of course. Those little chaps have learned a hell of a lot since 1945.
No they are just relying on underpaid workers being driven under totalitarian control to undercut our own and our industries being allowed to take advantage of that situation.
With the aid of computers now it would eliminate empty running, maybe even call it ‘Perfect Motor Transport’ or PMT for short.
Carryfast:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Or the world’s, come to that. With the Far East being the exception, of course. Those little chaps have learned a hell of a lot since 1945.No they are just relying on underpaid workers being driven under totalitarian control to undercut our own and our industries being allowed to take advantage of that situation.
Perhaps that’s the secret 
Dieseldog66:
With the aid of computers now it would eliminate empty running, maybe even call it ‘Perfect Motor Transport’ or PMT for short.
They had the chance of doing something similar last time around. But they couldn’t- or wouldn’t- do it then and I don’t suppose they could do it now.
Going back to the original responses, would we really allow someone straight out of a straitjacket onto the motorway with no speed limiter, no way of checking how many hours he had worked and to have even bigger vehicles, how is that going to create a level playing field?
Carryfast:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Or the world’s, come to that. With the Far East being the exception, of course. Those little chaps have learned a hell of a lot since 1945.No they are just relying on underpaid workers being driven under totalitarian control to undercut our own and our industries being allowed to take advantage of that situation.
There was a telly programme some time ago, about education across the world. The far eastern children were well-behaved, attentive and hard-working. Comparatively, the British ones were lazy thinkers, thought they were better than the school and preferred disruption to learning. It did not take a great leap of faith to imagine the far eastern kids’ parents as a happy, productive workforce and their British conterparts as the self-serving ignoramuses who fell under the spell of the trades union mobsters in the 1960s and '70s.
And the Leatherhead response is…
Retired Old ■■■■:
And the Leatherhead response is…
Give him time. I reckon he’s got a good few paragraphs of cross-eyed nonsense in the breach. I want to be the first poster to wind him up into producing a whole page of drivel in one post.
[zb]
anorak:Carryfast:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Or the world’s, come to that. With the Far East being the exception, of course. Those little chaps have learned a hell of a lot since 1945.No they are just relying on underpaid workers being driven under totalitarian control to undercut our own and our industries being allowed to take advantage of that situation.
There was a telly programme some time ago, about education across the world. The far eastern children were well-behaved, attentive and hard-working. Comparatively, the British ones were lazy thinkers, thought they were better than the school and preferred disruption to learning. It did not take a great leap of faith to imagine the far eastern kids’ parents as a happy, productive workforce and their British conterparts as the self-serving ignoramuses who fell under the spell of the trades union mobsters in the 1960s and '70s.
Or conformist automatons working towards the greater societal good as ordered by their great leader.So who’s calling who a Communist now.
No surprise whose side you’ll be on when the master race come marching up the Mall ordering those who refuse to conform into slavery doing 16 hours + a day for a bowl of rice if they’re lucky.
Wheel Nut:
Going back to the original responses, would we really allow someone onto the motorway with no speed limiter, no way of checking how many hours he had worked and to have even bigger vehicles, how is that going to create a level playing field?
Ironically it seemed to work just fine not so long ago and still does for those who moved across the Atlantic.But you forgot the issue of removal of road fuel taxation to make best use of the increased fuel efficiency.
Carryfast:
Or conformist automatons working towards the greater societal good as ordered by their great leader.So who’s calling who a Communist now.No surprise whose side you’ll be on when the master race come marching up the Mall ordering those who refuse to conform into slavery doing 16 hours + a day for a bowl of rice if they’re lucky.
Thanks for the Chinese Army recruitment video. They look like a well-scrubbed bunch. What has it got to do with the text of your post?