Originally Posted by
JSCL
I'm a very neutral party in this industry and my view on this is - why should a Government organisation dictate business? Who are the Gvmt to instruct the sale of company assets? Like really.. why should the Gvmt be able to say that BAA must sell an airport or two, it's BAA's business they are meddling in - it's bad for business, no matter what many of you want or say.
You are quite correct. The Competition Commission are one of those Quangos who ought to have been wound up a while ago. They are staffed by ludicrous self-seeking economics academics who want their bizarre ideas about perfect competition to be played out in the real world at someone else's expense.
They have grossly messed about with the bus industry as well. They said that on a bus route between two towns, each of which had its own bus operation, it was no longer allowed to run a joint operation with them providing alternate vehicles on a co-ordinated timetable and fares, and accepting each other's return tickets. That was somehow "anti competitive" for the few people who actually travelled by bus instead of by car.