Dear Editor
Every one of us needs the supply of electricity and a lot of people also need gas for heating and cooking. We all need a supply of fresh water: yet all of these industries are owned by private companies, able to fix prices to maintain multi-million pounds of profit for investors.
This supply of electricity, gas and water is essential and is provided by workers in those industries.
Why, then, should such essential services be in the hands of private companies? These basic essential services should be publicly owned.
The control of these basic essential services cannot be left to private individuals and groups of investors. It is backward thinking; it is greedy and immoral however measured.
A. Delahoy
Silverknowes Gardens
