I am surprsed that Britain has anaything left to sell, why not just sell the whole of the UK to the highest bidder?

Bill, Dundee, UK

Can you imaging the French or German governments saying the same?

By the time NuLab get kicked out there will be nothing left to flog But at least all the ministers involved will be able to retire to their holiday homes to negotiate their book deals and directorships. And god knows what fees UBS will be getting.

paul, sheffiel;d, UK

I suppose it doesn't really matter whether a major release of radioactivity is in continental europe or the british isles. Equally, the UK track record is not that clever on nuclear power safety.
Even so, there was always something re-assuring that our nuclear industry was state owned and not subject to the cost- and corner-cutting that is inevitable in the private sector. And at least it was the British state that owned it.
Now, I suppose, we would be just as safe getting Iran to build some reactors for us.

Mike Poulsen, Reading, Berkshire

No doubt the "on-message" new labour apparachik who works inside the "Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform " - made the statement that the Gordon Brown government - is relaxed about everything when it comes to serving the interests of BIG business, simply because the buffoons who run this country no longer have our national strategic interests on their radar screen. And of course it had to employ the services of a merchant bank which has recently written off one of the largest losses in global banking history. Nice one! Clearly what we all now need - is more lessons in Britishness!

Roy Finchett, LONDON, UK

Sweden’s Vaten-fall,......this firm has a super record in Germany on nuclear power disasters and a real ability to obscure the truth when mishaps occur. Inspiring !

No doubt Britain would let Pakistan buy its nuclear industry so A Q Khan can get back in business

TomTom, Leeds, England

“not UK energy policy to encourage national champions” - dont you love it. Just remove the word "energy" and you have the UK approach to just about everything. If there's a quid in it, the government or the city will sell it. And then they seem surprised when the new overseas owners fail to invest in it - just look at the Ferrovial / BAA / Heathrow fiasco.

Stephen Hunt, Sydney, Australia

“We are used to foreign ownership of energy suppliers in the UK. We are relaxed about it,” she said."
As a government employee, with the prospect of gold plated pension to look forward to she may may be able to afford extortionate energy prices. Those unfortunate enough to depend on the largesse a of government state pension in their old age are not relaxed about ever increasing prices.
Every year we pay more for energy than the European countries where the power companies are based. Every summer they buy gas from Brtain at rock bottom prices and then refuse to supply Britain when we need extra supplies in the winter.
None of this appears to worry the government. Thereagain, very little does seem to worry this government.

Bernard, Edinburgh, Scotland