Chapter 1317 British water company

Like nationalizing the water supply system, surely it is necessary to submit a bill in the House of Commons, this is the prime minister’s business, the cabinet secretary’s business, it is nothing more than the following, let the ministry of finance take out the budget that should be taken out for nationalizing the water supply system, and then assess how many staffing is needed to set up the British Water Company, and use this to arrange the employment positions.

Now the employment situation in Britain is actually worse than during the Aidan period, after all, there are a lot of Allen Wilson’s eyes worthless industry has been transferred out. This may also be the root cause of this Aidan rollover, so there is certainly no objection from Whitehall to creating some jobs through nationalization, which would also increase the number of civil servants.

The first step is naturally to ask the Ministry of Finance if there is any problem, not long after Frank came to the Cabinet Office, Alan Wilson waited until the other party sat down and first greeted him, “Frank, how do you feel about your minister?”

“Callahan?” Frank pondered for a moment shaking his head, “He’s only just taken office as well, can’t see any difference from the previous one yet.”

“We’re certainly hoping there’s no change, but don’t take it lightly.” Alan Wilson nodded, Callaghan? He remembered the Chancellor of the Exchequer had also been Prime Minister, again at the tail end of Labour’s wave of government, eventually ended by Margaret Thatcher.

Although very much valued by Harold Wilson, Callaghan was not a faction in the political spectrum with the current Labor Party leader, but a faction of the former party leader Gaitschke.

With that, Alan Wilson relayed that the prime minister wanted to start with the water system in this round of nationalization and asked Frank what he thought.

“I have no problem with that. Alan, what do you think.” Frank didn’t express any opposition, he knew clearly that it was definitely going to cost money, but this time Labor had won a big victory, winning almost a hundred seats, and this was a time when Whitehall couldn’t afford to go against the Cabinet, it was a strong government now.

“I’m also not against the nationalization plan, you know, this can create a certain number of jobs, we have another place to arrange colleagues.” Alan Wilson said this and added, “But let’s be clear, the new British Water is going to make money, and the bottom line is that it can’t create a deficit, and it certainly won’t do to use the power of the government to underwrite losses.”

As the outstanding representative of the old imperialism, Britain, Britain in nineteen forty-four had already achieved one hundred percent tap water coverage. There is this foundation before we can talk about nationalizing the water supply system.

The problem to be solved now is nothing more than, the question of competence, Britain’s water supply system is less centralized, divided into various local governments, what we have to do now is to integrate these water supply systems which are divided into private or public, local government and municipal government.

There are three main opponents, local government, joint water boards and water companies.

Although private companies are also players in the water market, with less than one-fifth of the market share, the de facto control of the water industry remains in the hands of local government; and the need for water supply operations to be routinely carried out across geographical boundaries, with the terms of bulk supply arrangements needing to be approved by central government, and such a large number of agencies involved in the water supply business has led to inefficiencies in the UK’s water supply.

“There are thousands of agencies in local water companies alone.” Frank says the matter is not easy either, “Does the Prime Minister know, what he is going to be up against.”

“Knows or doesn’t know. But it doesn’t matter, the existence of a hodgepodge of agencies also makes it difficult to know where to start, take advantage of this nationalization to sort out the water supply system. Replace the arrangements with reliable people.”

Alan Wilson tapped the table, “Place a batch of the civil servants who came in this year in Malaya, the Malayan water supply system is shared with a private company, but it’s far more lucid than the chaos on the mainland, and it’ll make things a little easier to bring back local colleagues.”

Frank could have disbelieved anything else, but this statement from the Supreme Authority he definitely believed, that shared private company in Malaya? If nothing else, the owner of the company would be named Pamela Mountbatten.

Letting Frank make his budget, Alan Wilson picked up the microphone to fluctuate the Home Office phone to get the Home Office to come up with a feasibility report, and he gave it a week to make sure that this report must be detailed so that the Prime Minister would know the true state of the British water supply system.

This, after all, involved thousands of interests, including local authorities, water companies and agencies, and when he got home in the evening, checking the time in Kuala Lumpur against the time in Kuala Lumpur, he put in another call to the Kuala Lumpur High Commissioner’s Office of Administration, advising of the need for employees of the local water companies, to return to their home territories to lead the nationalization.

“I’ll arrange it right away, Secretary General.” Richard’s voice came through the microphone, and Alan Wilson, only slightly put down, replied, “The wave of nationalization is not a bad thing for civil servants; don’t these agencies ultimately rely on us to manage them? The consolidation of thousands of organizations, do we let the parliamentarians manage it, they can at best manage to hang on to their names.”

Just after putting down the phone, Xia Meng posted up, “It seems like the Xiangjiang water supply system, was also something you talked about, right?”

Xia Meng this time because of the British Golden Globe Awards ceremony back, already as the benchmark of Asian movies, she naturally can’t let the man behind her feel empty in his heart every day.

“Don’t say that.” Alan Wilson categorically denied it, then added, “I was the one who had people go and talk about it, and this is of course thanks to your country’s cooperation. In fact, we have a chance to cooperate, don’t we? It’s not good for everyone to make a scene. Of course the Vietnam War is an exception to this kind of thing, this can not be blamed on the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom has the thinking of the oldest empire, than look at the Americans, the heart somewhat look down on the Europeans. Your country is obsessed with what is the relationship between Britain and the United States, I can tell you certainly more inclined to the United States. But ultimately the outcome of the war determined the attitude of China and Britain.”

Regardless of how many Vietnamese the US fought the Vietnam War to take out, whether it was two million or five million, as long as the US eventually withdrew its troops and South Vietnam was overthrown, it was a nail-biting defeat.

On the flip side Vietnam, even in their misery, as long as they were able to hold out until the Americans left, they were the victors. For the world’s number one, once the undefeated gold is broken, that’s a pretty scary thing.

The US should immediately find a victim for the USSR to lose as well, or the consequences would be quite severe.

No doubt after a few decades, the US has a lot of cards in its hand and turned its head and nudged Eastern Europe. But now the U.S. is not really many options, point Japan, Korea and Taiwan collapse a certain big country a face of blood? Just now a certain big country in addition to being able to fight, there is no little altar level, sacrificing a dog the United States feel that they lose.

But decades later in Asia, the United States also has its own difficulties, at least Southeast Asian countries can not be so Europeans believe that the United States military power. Southeast Asian countries have witnessed the Saigon Iron Fist, Europeans have only heard that there has been this, witnessed and personally heard is not a concept.

Alan Wilson told Xia Meng, want to let the United States calmly talk to you? Prove that you are not to be messed with. It doesn’t matter if the process is ugly, the result proves everything.

Why did Allen Wilson hold onto Malaya? Because when a certain big country opened up, the first injection of funds was not British, American, European or Japanese or Korean, but the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. Now the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, has been regarded by him as an important grip on the return of British capital.

Southeast Asia’s Chinese diaspora earned money, before the emergence of Japanese enterprises to move in, as for the European and American enterprises began to invest, that are very later things.

The current nationalization was sensational, and its main reason was that Alan Wilson transferred people from Malaya and the Middle East, which also had British civil servants in charge of desalination and sewage purification systems. Especially the latter is very important, to establish a reliable water purification system, is the top priority of this water supply system nationalization, directly concerned with the success or failure of this nationalization.

“Alan, the Cabinet Office has added some aspects that were not expected among the Cabinet’s plans.” Prime Minister Harold was quite satisfied and did not mince words in expressing his appreciation for the Cabinet Secretary.

This one report, illustrates the sewage treatment aspect: the numerous management agencies and localized treatment resulting in frequent sewage problems.

The rapid growth in water demand has led to the rapid development of the sewage treatment industry under the policy requirement of meeting public health.

However, the sewerage industry suffers from similar problems to water supply, namely the involvement of more than 1,400 local bodies has led to numerous problems in the sewerage industry under the premise that sewerage is the responsibility of local authority areas rather than catchment areas.

Local authorities are all required to carry out cross-catchment sewage collection, sewage treatment and pollution control, but in the absence of a common cross-catchment regulatory body, each regulates to its own standards of river pollution control; and the range of size and capacity varies markedly across local authorities, from London’s population of eight million to the smallest area of around 20,000 or so.

Each local authority worked for its own purposes, there was no single body responsible for coordinating the use and development of water resources throughout the basin, sewage treatment was highly localized, and there were many problems in working effectively within the basin.

Alan Wilson’s proposal came out much earlier than the Prime Minister expected, and to be honest as Secretary General of the Cabinet he was more desperate for a wave of nationalization than the Prime Minister himself.

This comprehensive proposal for the creation of British Water predates even the Water Resources Act, which the Prime Minister is planning to enact.

“In the next few days, teams from the Middle East and Malaya will return to London with some of the most suitable talent in the UK. They have been responsible locally for water supply companies, desalination, water purification systems and so on. Accumulated quite a wealth of experience.” Alan Wilson spoke eloquently, using practical actions to show that he had done everything for the Prime Minister’s nationalization plan.

“At first, I only saw your talent in diplomatic work, but now it seems that your becoming the beloved cabinet secretary general is definitely justified.” Prime Minister Harold tsked, happy that Whitehall had come up with a proposal so quickly.