From your link Iains
"British Steel, British Petroleum, Rolls Royce, British Airways, water and electricity were among the major utilities for sale. These privatisations provoked serious opposition, perhaps sufficient to curb any tendency toward privatisation in the NHS. Nonetheless, market-driven measures continued to be imposed in the public sector, from the "internal market" in the health service to Major's ill-fated citizen's charter."
British Steel has disappeared under privatisation and Britan no longer produces steel - or very little else
BP becam multinational and is largely in-hoc to Russia and Rolls Royce died in 2002
"Balanced" maybe, but hardly a recommendation for privatisation
The Housing con was aan utter disaster for the people who relied on affordable homes and was very much a part of widening the gap between haves and have nots and tearing Britain in half
A word of advice - stop trying to talk down to people - it makes amental midget like you look silly
Jim Carroll