What is conservative about privatisation?

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column

 

What is conservative about privatisation? What has it conserved? How has it helped the nation be stronger and safer? 

Though there are many more, I will take just three examples. Once, Britain had a first-rate nuclear power industry and could build its own atomic power stations. Then we privatised that and decades of experience and wisdom were scattered to the winds. And now we have to get the Chinese, a despotic menace, to provide the nuclear ...