If the energy companies were still Government owned...

EDF... French

E.ON.. German

NPower. German

Scottish Power .. Spanish

Thames Water... Australian/Chinese

Yorkshire Water .. Singapore

Northumbria Water .. Hong Kong

South East Water..  Canada/ Australia

Wessex Water .. Malaysia

In this country, Government owned means Union run. And, while I'm by no means anti-union, that makes Government run unfeasible and that's a shame.

Anyone else see the irony that you bought up this subject Mr VOLTAGE

Lol ufcdan.

The bills  would be cheaper since a large part of their profits goes to shareholders and fat cat salaries
if the government owned them the profit could be reinvested in the business

Stubbs,
the profits would go to filling in pot-holes on Britain's roads and fat-cat MP lunches.

We don't do re-investment in GB. Infrastructures are left to rot.

The energy companies were never owned by the government

The networks operators also sold the energy pre 91....................

Seeboard
Eastern
Northen
SWEB
Norweb
Midlands
East Midland
etc etc

State run..

The government should open up a few thousand state run bookmakers offices and lay all till the cows come home,then they would have money for everything they need,and nobody would have to pay tax.

The often repeated notion that publically owned companies are always better value because they don't have shareholders doesn't stand up to analysis.

UK is just a franchise, everything gets sold off. It wouldnt be so bad if they all paid their tax bills.

i am telling you ,they should open 3000 bookies offices and it would not be long before they had state of the art hospitals in ever town and village,but i can hear the guys that are on TV with the suits saying "joe fanning had a treble at cattrick last week and the government purse has got lean"

The idea that private companies will offer better value for money because of competition and expertise has been proven to be utter drivel.