If private ownership is a good thing, it should be widely extended, not restricted to the superwealthy,
like the Private Finance Initiative. Wasn’t this the philosophy of the Levellers?
And is this perhaps behind the idea of Foundation hospitals? If public ownership is a good thing then extend that too.
What we seem to do in Britain is combine the worst aspects of fudge – eg Network Rail with hundreds of millions of public subsidies and still too expensive to attract commuters away from their convenient cars.
Or the Isle of Sky Bridge – built with PFI and now we have to pay to buy it back!

Political reform requires an active, engaged, and sometimes enraged citizenry.
The sort of citizenry that hold governments accountable, that march in their millions upon London
demanding an end to warmongering imperialism. We have every right to insist that those who purport
to lead us be worthy of the task. And no expectation that they ever will.