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Thought-provoking article here: How We Happened to Sell Off Our Electricity. How did we get here? In 1981, with inflation and unemployment at 10 per cent plus, with the recently elected Conservative government forced to yield to the demands of the miners, public spending cuts provoking general outrage and Thatcher’s prime ministerial career seemingly doomed to a swift, ignominious end, a 38-year-old economist from Birmingham University called Stephen Littlechild was working on ways to realise an esoteric idea that had been much discussed in radical Tory circles: privatisation. Privatisation was not a Thatcher patent. ... ... James Meek, London Review of Books, Sept.13.2012.
Links in Waiting
ToDo: go through this lot.
- Sellafield, Calder Hall, Magnox reactors etc., link, link, Westinghouse Springfields, LLW Repository Ltd
- https://web.archive.org/web/20001101000000*/http://www.southern-electric.co.uk/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEEBOARD
- SEEBOARD energy logo, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=SEEBOARD+energy+logo&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070224201216/http://www.swalec.co.uk:80/DomesticCharter/Default.aspx
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060815000000*/http://www.swalec.co.uk/
- http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Powergen
- Regulation of the UK Electricity Industry (2002), Gilliam Simmonds, link
- Centre for the study of Regulated Industries) 1990-2010 at Bath, link
- British Energy Ltd, https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC162273/filing-history?page=9
- DDG search "British Energy, July 1996, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=British+Energy%2C+July+1996&t=h_&ia=web