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THE current furore over the management of Scottish Water has the dangerous whiff of the threat of privatisation hanging over it. The usual tactics employed by the government are to undermine the management of a public utility, then a headline-grabbing resignation or sacking, leading to the "only sensible conclusion" that the utility concerned is so poorly run that the only viable option left is to hand it over to the private sector in order to "turn things around".
This kite-flying should be resisted by the Scottish Parliament. Do we really want to be charged by the bucketful for one of our few nationally-owned resources from the sunny delights of a head office in California or Kent? The cry would then be "Why does it always rain on us?"See the full content of this document
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