[QUOTE I bet the government has already drafted a change in legislation that would be implemented within weeks of a change of the NATS pension which would then be followed closely by flotation.
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Dunebug
What you are saying is that the government intends to use valuable time in Parliament to get a bill through so that it can more easily sell off NATS for... how much?
I doubt there is sufficient value to merit what would surely be seen as a blatant back tracking on the PPP arrangements. It would surely suggest to the country that parliament was abused by the government in order to get around a difficult issue that was likely to prevent PPP. I suggest the political dangers in that are immense. This country has little trust in this government as it is; such an admission of the mistreatment of Parliament would hardly encourage trust of government in the run up to the next election.
I could yet be proven wrong but I just don't see that; it's Political suicide.
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