Your privatisation’s in the post
It may have taken 77 years for a Brit to put the Wimbledon Men’s Singles title voodoo to bed, but it’s taken considerably longer for another much-loved British institution – The Royal Mail – to start the journey from public to private ownership.
Image taken from The Daily Telegraph
This week the coalition Government (which still seems an odd thing to write, let alone be ‘governed’ by) announced plans to privatise Royal Mail with a Stock Market flotation. The general concensus seems to be that the privatisation of monolithic, monopolistic, state-owned industries has been positive, transforming stodgy, unfit behemoths into lean, agile and competitive players.