Changing a means of distribution to make it fairer produces losers as well as gainers.
This industry is the chief gainer of dollars that we have; the greatest single gainer of dollars of any industry in this country.
Customers, who are supposedly the big gainers, often find that they are nothing of the kind.
But radical restructuring combined with a substantial budget reduction implied significant losses for most claimants and few gainers, a potentially even more difficult retrenchment to achieve.
Local communities need to understand the necessity of this process, and gainers and losers need to be identified and accept the outcome, and compensation issues addressed.
The principal gainers are the 2 million council tenants who bought their dwellings at heavily discounted prices, whereas the losers are much more difficult to identify.
By this capitalist rationale, consumers are to be gainers, too.
Compensation can no longer take place, as the average is based precisely on there being gainers and losers.
