If the Tories are in power, it must be private!

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Before May 2010 Cameron said that the N.H.S "is safe in my hands."  No it's not because he is a tory! These plans had been drawn long before he came into power he knew that he would hive off a chunk of our N.H.S to the private sector.   After the voting public turf him and his cohorts out in 2015 or earlier...      IS THERE A DIRECTORS JOB IN THE OFFING?


His next target was the Great British Bobby, our police force bringing in the private security companies to do back room work, and light policing.  After sacking the original back room staff, did he not realize that someone has to do the paperwork so that the police can do their job out on the streets, preventing crime and catching criminals?  Or is this an attempt to create:                  JOBS FOR THE BOYS

This week it's the motorways, now cars, vans and lorries are not just having to pay their road tax in the coming months and years.   There will be motor way tolls. When Ken Livingstone introduced the congestion charges for London the conservatives went for blood, however now we are just expected to smile sweetly and say nothing of these charges that are to be introduced by the tories!   !nn! !nn! If you use these private motor ways with the price of petrol and diesel rising the only people that will be able to afford to travel by these roads will be the top 1% of the UK.     In other words the filthy rich financial sector, is this what he intended to make sure that he put road travel out of the reach of the other  99% of the UK public?   Is this another way of putting motorway tailbacks so that him and his cohorts can sail up and down the motorways without having to deal with us (plebs) getting in their way? 

                                                                           WHAT IS THE KICKBACK FOR THIS?


When the Education Minister (Mr Gove) decided to bring in Academy and Free Schools as his pet project there was a promise of "No Council Interference" until some of the Academies failed and then the Councils where told clear up his mess.   Now another round of casualties have been racked up with the tory party practice of elitist snobbery, students that are not seen to perform to the expected targets  are been shipped out to f.e. Colleges to complete their studies. 

                                       PREPARING  FUTURE  GENERATION AS UP AND COMING TORY VOTERS

oftenwrong. The problem with posting links to the 'Financial Times' website is that most of us won't be able to read them because there is a paywall. If you are a subscriber maybe you could, from time to time, post a few lines from any articles which you think would be of interest to other members? Thanks.

Point taken, but I do not in fact subscribe to any newspaper online.
At the time I located that quote (from MSN Bing) on the internet, the article was freely available.  (I checked the link twice).  Now less than 24 hours later there are the usual invocations to part with a chunk of cash to continue.  As a devout cheapskate, I shall not be taking up the kind offer, though I understand perfectly that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

My sincere apologies to anyone else also rather confused by the process.

Shame, that - looks as if it would have been an interesting article

Alternate coverage of the same topic can be found here:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/news/public-services-private-contractors-report/

This railway was making money for the taxpayer instead of for Tory cronies and donors!


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It's shocking the way they're selling off everything - at this stage, when it seems possible they won't get back into government it looks just like looting to be honest - just hope the next government can put things right

Why has this government decided to sell its share in Eurostar when the French and Belgian governments are keeping their share?

Tory Party dogma, astradt1, not rocket science or even Economics. If you don't control it, why are you doing it?

The Met Office and Ordnance Survey are in the Tories' sights for privatisation - and wait for it, so is the Lake District:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/countryside/11454983/The-Lake-District-should-it-be-sold-off-to-the-highest-bidder.html

LAND!! They're not making it anymore.

It'sthe NHS that condernes me.

In very simple terms, the Tories have many Private Health Firms donating them huge sums. This explains everything, does it not?

The situation of the NHS is very worrying - hopefully, the next government will have both the will and the ability to repair the significant damage done by the Tories

boatlady according to the latest figures which must change dramatically, the next government will be a third term of tory shite.

@Stu

Not so!

We will see Phil.

Actually apologies to everybody, it just seems longer, only their second term, another red faced stu again.

"The sale of assets is common with individuals and states when they run into financial difficulties. First, all the Georgian silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the saloon. Then the Canalettos go." (Harold Macmillan, 8 November 1985)


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Well they always say that you sell the family silver first do they not?

stuart torr wrote:.... the next government will be a third term of tory shite.

But whiter than white: http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/expenses-and-sex-scandal-deleted-from-mps-wikipedia-pages-by-computers-inside-parliament/ar-BBkf1kn

Sounds about right OW, some even had there chauffeur to drive them from home to where they were having a meal to help win the election,then claimed that on expenses.

stuart torr wrote:boatlady according to the latest figures which must change dramatically, the next government will be a third term of tory shite.

...and , thereafter..

" Actually apologies to everybody, it just seems longer, only their second term, another red faced stu again. "


An interesting prediction. Heaven forbid that anyone else should have had the temerity to suggest likewise in the light of the overwhelming contrary data...  

"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?"
Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" of January 1735.

(updated by William Rees-Mogg, as editor of The Times newspaper, used the "on a wheel" version of the quotation as the heading (set in capital letters) for an editorial on 1 July 1967 about the "Redlands" court case, which had resulted in prison sentences for Rolling Stones members Keith Richards and Mick Jagger.)

I suppose that butterflies which choose to float by will always risk that fate, however pointless it may be...

How far does Cameron want to shrink the state? Ask Barnet’s binmen

From an article by Aditya Chakrabortty:-

Councils have been outsourcing for decades, which is why your local traffic warden is usually tramping the streets on behalf of a private firm. But that isn’t enough for Tory-run Barnet – it is on a mission to make itself disappear. It has begun a programme to farm out so many of its services that the local trade union calculates staff will shrink from 3,200 in September 2012 to just 332.

Everything from registering births to mowing the local cemeteries has either already been outsourced or is about to about be. And most of the key tasks have been given to the FTSE giant Capita. Not just for a few months or a couple of years, Capita will run these services for at least 10 years.

An arm of Britain’s local government has in effect agreed to a friendly takeover by a £7bn multinational. Whoever Barnet residents vote for in local elections, they will always get Capita. Whenever they phone or email or visit, they will speak to a Capita employee. The FTSE giant will face no competition for the next decade; nor will it endure the same scrutiny as democratic government, as previously public information is veiled under “commercial sensitivity”.

One man tells me about phoning his local library to see if a children’s book was in stock. The call was routed to a Capita call centre in Coventry, where staff spent ages unable to help before connecting him back to the librarians just down the road. By his calculations, for that wasted call Capita would charge Barnet £8. Outsourcing is full of these invented costs, which is how the privateers make their billions.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/01/cameron-shrink-state-barnet-future-local-services

Ivan wrote:How far does Cameron want to shrink the state? Ask Barnet’s binmen

From an article by Aditya Chakrabortty:-

....Everything [in Barnet] from registering births to mowing the local cemeteries has either already been outsourced or is about to about be. And most of the key tasks have been given to the FTSE giant Capita....  Capita will run these services for at least 10 years....

When British Rail was privatised 20 years ago, the new "management" of South West Trains began by sacking any driver with a history of Trade Union activity.  There were many, many subsequent train-cancellations and it was four years before SWT had an adequate staff by training new drivers.

The problem with any kind of out-sourcing is that skills and experience are lost forever within the original organisation.  Something likely to come back and bite administrators on the bum when they least welcome it.

Flog every mountain,
Sell every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
'Til you privatise your dream.


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Perhaps an appropriate moment to welcome the return to bloggery of one Philip "Judas" Hornby, alleged grand fromage of       The 'Don't Vote' Alliance.

https://cuttingedge2.forumotion.co.uk/t44p120-pease-pottage-conservative-club

Naughty!

But I do join with you in welcoming the return of the Pease Pottage society

Public assets are being transferred to the Tories' friends hand over fist - the robbing of British people on a breathtaking scale........


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But we know they can be trusted with the Economy - that's why they were elected.

Wasn't it?

"Everything is better in private hands" is a well-worn mantra of the Tories. Better for them maybe, but not for the rest of us.


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Welsh taxpayers "lose tens of millions" from land sales.

Gideon Osborne has called off the proposed sale back to the public of the shares in Lloyds Bank plc which the public had acquired in 2008, due to high volatility of the Stock Market just now.

Something which everyone with "savings" earning 0.1% interest will understand perfectly.

"Sheffield Forgemasters" are in the news again:

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/industry-titans-offer-%c2%a330m-forgemasters-aid/ar-BBoQIVM?li=BBoPMmp

But thankfully we can trust the Tories with the British Economy.