"In the UK, We now have 'competition' running rampant in essential services...
...but only now is the true agenda of privatisation visible for all to see."

LOL, you have to admire the shameless opportunism of exploiting the on-topic disgruntlement of this thread for a crafty, off-topic leftoid rant. Why, it's almost capitalistic.

I guess it's a solution not many of us have considered for our various gripes about the way things happen in our 'scene', but maybe the whole 3D figure market needs nationalising. The means of production and distribution under one wing; a vast, state owned monopoly run by people whose only motivation is that they really, really care about us.

Valiant horse, sheep and chicken figures will probably be permitted for use in acceptable farm-promotion images, but I'm not so sure about fat pigs and snarling dogs. Might be considered subversive to the point of being counter-revolutionary. ;-)