Dons Lefty Ranting Hat
Now I am ready to be shot down here, but isnt this just the same old Tory tactic of selling the public something the public already own...

See British Gas passsim..
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 15:18, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

yes

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 15:18, Reply)

well, no.
The country owns it. I'm fairly sure that's not quite the same as you and I owning it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 15:20, Reply)

Yes the country...
so if it isnt you and I that own it wouldnt it make it part of the Queens estate?
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 15:35, Reply)

erm, we don't "own" the country.
we live here. consider taxes as a rent not a mortgage.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 15:44, Reply)

very fine definition
Surely the people "are" the country... most countries have to be created by a populace at some point ergo the common ownership. And if you are saying that we dont own it then it must belong to the Queen as the owner of all the common land?
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 1 Feb 2011, 16:15, Reply)