Tony Walton wrote:
Kingsley Matthews wrote:
Most of the old nationalised industries were ok. My business
recently moved into new premises, we had to notify 3
organisations to get our gas connected. In the old days we
just notified one, and they say that privatisation cuts
bureaucracy.


There was a power cut in the pub where I was (plus most of the
street) last Saturday. The manager was busy switching off alarms
and doing pubby things, so he asked me to get on tho the
electricity people and find out when it was likely to come back on.

details of phone calls snipped
Total time, some 40 minutes. Total raise in blood pressu lots.
Improvement over the old, clapped out, monolithic system, nil.

Then your pub evidently chose the wrong supplier. That's a risk with
any private enterprise system. Personally, I've had no problem with
Southern Electric. There is usually a recorded message about the power
cut as soon as you phone.

I'm sure the shareholders love it, though. Thank God I wasn't
trying to report a gas leak.

Gas leaks are dealt with by Transco; look under 'Gas' in the phone book.
What's the problem with that?
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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)