Scottish water is owned by the Scottish Goverment. It provides additional funding to the Scottish Goverment, unlike the water companies in England that require subsidies. It does this while providing the highest quality water in the UK, at the cheapest price and with challenging geography. The Scottish Goverment aren’t doing anything special, they just understand monopoly services can be provided efficiently by the government. It’s complete feasible for the rest of the UK to do this.

Privatisation is not and has never been about efficiency. It’s about extracting the common wealth of the nation. Highly efficient business vertically integrate. Like Starbucks makes their own cups and this allows them to operate at a higher profit margin. Apple designs their own packaging, processor’s and software as this allows them to operate at a higher profit margin. The same would be true for governments.

The problem is we elect people that don’t believe Goverment can be run effectively and efficiently. We shouldn’t be suprised when these politicians don’t run the Goverment effectively and efficiently.