In the 1980s,champions of “deregulation ” announced their mission to set the people free from the suffocating yoke of “big government” or the stranglehold of regulation. So it was that in Britain enterprises once state owned were privatized and public utilities such as telecoms,gas ,electricity and water were rapidly sold off. Moreover,unified transport systems took on multiple identities when the networks of trains and buses,most of which had previously been owned by the state,were put up for sale and then snapped up by a host of individual private companies.