This is not surprising. Three years ago a YouGov poll showed that “the majority of the people” support the public running of some key sectors such as the railways, the mail service and the water companies. Transport for Wales rail services to be nationalised Comments on the BBC Related Nationalisation vs privatisation
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51