The most unlikely “rainbow” Coalition of people has united against backdoor NHS privatisation by the Conservative Party.

On a day when Centrica/British Gas announced record profits, the issue came up again about how the business had made massive profits while putting its prices up, and how there was no real competition in this crowded, fragmented market of few suppliers. Such suppliers constitute an ‘oligopoly’ as the barriers-to-entry to competition are sufficiently high, meaning that the big players in it are able to return massive dividends year-on-year. (more…)