Public and Private Sectors in the UK. Public and Private Sectors in the UK. At the beginning of the 1980s there were many public corporations in the United Kingdom. They included British Coal, British Steel, the Post Office, British Telecom, the British Airports Authorities, British Rail and some others. They were nationalized mostly by Labour governments for political reasons, reflecting a desire to control and plan the economy in detail and a belief in the "rightness" of public ownership as an ideal. Some corporations became public to be rescued from bankruptcy. Thus the governments saved thousands of jobs in those firms, so the taxpayer was saved from paying out large sums to unemployed people. Very many public corporations later became private again. But some others are still publicly owned. A special mention should be made of British Rail. Railway tracks make a natural monopoly of the state. At the same time different companies are allowed to operate competing services on the same tracks. Thus there is a natural monopoly in track ownership but not in operating trains. ответить на во по тексту: 1. The title of the text is... 2. The key idea of the text is ... 3. The author starts by saying that 4. The author pays attention to the fact, that 5. He point out... 6.In addition, he gives example of 7. In the concluding remarks, he says that 8. I find the text interesting/informative/useful, because