Just a reminder about the selling off of UK public assets.
1970s

British Petroleum (1977, 1979, 1981, 1987)

International Computers Limited (1979)

Lunn Poly (1971)

Rolls-Royce Motors (1973)

State Management Scheme (1973)

Thomas Cook (1972)

1980s

Amersham International (1982)

Associated British Ports (1983, 1984)
British Aerospace (1981, 1985)

British Airports Authority (1987)

British Airways (1987)

British Airways Helicopters
(1986)
British Gas (1986)
British Leyland
Alvis (1981)
Coventry Climax (1982)

Coventry Climax (1982)

Danish Automobile Building (1987)

ISTEL (1987)

Jaguar (1984)

Leyland Bus (1987)

Leyland Tractors (1982)

Leyland Trucks (1987)

Rover Group (1988)
Unipart (1987)

British Rail Engineering Limited (1989)

British Shipbuilders (1985-1989, shipbuilder companies sold individually)

British Steel plc (1988)

British Sugar (1981)

British Telecom (1984, 1991, 1993)

British Transport Hotels (1983)

Britoil (1982, 1985)

Cable and Wireless (1981, 1983, 1985)

Council houses (1980–present, over two million sold to their tenants)

Enterprise Oil (1984)
Fairey (1980)

Ferranti (1982)

Harland and Wolff (1989)

Inmos (1984)

Municipal bus companies (1988–present, bus companies sold individually)

National Express (1988)
National Freight Corporation (1982)

Passenger transport executive bus companies (1988 - 1994, bus companies sold individually)

Rolls-Royce (1987)

Royal Ordnance (1987)

Sealink (1984)

Travellers Fare (1988)

Trustee Savings Bank (1985)

Vale of Rheidol Railway(1989)

Water companies
Anglian Water(1989)

North West Water
Northumbrian Water
Severn Trent
South West Water
Southern Water
Thames Water

Welsh Water

Wessex Water

Yorkshire Water
and thats only 2 decades
What the F is left to put a flag in ?