Meek James
Meek James - Private Island Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else - Paperback
Meek James - Private Island Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else - Paperback
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Description: The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations or trains or hospitals. It's the public itself. it's us. In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy rail energy water postal services municipal housing have been sold to remote unaccountable private owners often from overseas. In a series of brilliant portraits the award - winning novelist and journalist James Meek shows how Britain's common wealth became private and the impact it has had on us all: from the growing shortage of housing to spiralling energy bills. Meek explores the human stories behind the incremental privatization of the nation over the last three decades. He shows how as our national assets are sold ordinary citizens are handed over to private tax - gatherers and the greatest burden of taxes shifts to the poorest. In the end it is not only public enterprises that have become private property but we ourselves. Urgent powerfully written and deeply moving this is a passionate anatomy of the state of the nation: of what we have lost and what losing it cost us the rent we must pay to exist on this private island.
Title: Private Island Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else
Author(s): Meek James
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784782061
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 6/2/2015
Category: Politics & Government
Description: The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations or trains or hospitals. It's the public itself. it's us. In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy rail energy water postal services municipal housing have been sold to remote unaccountable private owners often from overseas. In a series of brilliant portraits the award - winning novelist and journalist James Meek shows how Britain's common wealth became private and the impact it has had on us all: from the growing shortage of housing to spiralling energy bills. Meek explores the human stories behind the incremental privatization of the nation over the last three decades. He shows how as our national assets are sold ordinary citizens are handed over to private tax - gatherers and the greatest burden of taxes shifts to the poorest. In the end it is not only public enterprises that have become private property but we ourselves. Urgent powerfully written and deeply moving this is a passionate anatomy of the state of the nation: of what we have lost and what losing it cost us the rent we must pay to exist on this private island.
Title: Private Island Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else
Author(s): Meek James
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784782061
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 6/2/2015
Category: Politics & Government
