The home secretary is "on the precipice of destroying a police service that is admired throughout the world", the Police Federation will warn her when she addresses their annual conference.
The doctors think the same of Lansley.
As do nurses.
And teachers think that of Gove.
Can they all be wrong? I doubt it.
In that case is this cock up or conspiracy?
I'd say neither. The aim is to destroy these services so that they can be privatised. Big business in the UK may be sitting on £700 billion in cash it has no clue what to do with at present. It can see no investment opportunity for the money, on which as a result - as any saver knows - it is making remarkably little return. In the absence of any idea how to make that additional return big business wants to get its hands on the securest income stream in the UK - tax revenue - and it can do that by winning private contracts to delve public service.
Of course they'll provide a worse service than the state, and they'll suppress wages and pensions in the process: that's the business model they'll knowingly use. But they'll get rich and that's all they and the Tories care about.
In that case this is neither cock or nor conspiracy. It could be called a plan, but that would be kind to it. A heist might be the best description. It's the most massive theft of well being from the majority to feed corporate greed in the history of this country and the Tories, knowing they're a one term government and even trying to hide the fact.
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The Leveson inquiry is exposing a very great deal about the manner of the collusion between the Tories and the big corporations .. only difference is that I call it a sting operation (a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care) rather than a heist (a crime in which valuable things are taken illegally) But I’m happy with either.
http://think-left.org/2012/05/10/what-does-leveson-tell-us-about-the-tories-and-their-plan-to-wipe-out-state-services/
All your excellent posts today point to the same conclusion that ‘the fight against austerity’ is indeed ‘the fight against fascism’. R4 Today interview revealed the ‘game of chicken’ which Merkel is playing with the Greek electorate in the run-up to the next elections. I find the lies and the implicit threats highly chilling. But once the electoral mandate has been gained, there can be a free for all, as we are seeing in the UK. We need a radical re-think of the processes of our so-called democracy because it is now simply a means to justify disempowering the population.
We’re disempowered by having mainstream money and access to it taken from us. We need to develop alternative currencies to compensate. Yes I know this would be illegal. It’s becoming obvious why too.
This is just the end of a road which was started in the 1980’s. There is nothing hidden about it: nothing surprising, at all. What is surprising is how long the people, who like to see themselves as cynical with their “don’t believe everything you read in the papers” and their ” they’re all the same and you can’t trust them” mantras actually did believe in the bona fides of these thieves.
I do not know if the tories think they are a one term government. I do think they now believe they and their plutocratic friends have enough power to obviate the need to pretend any longer. I think they may be right. They will lead us to war (again) and then present themselves as patriots. We are supposed to forget that they ruined us in their own interest when that happens
“The Leveson inquiry is exposing a very great deal about the manner of the collusion between the Tories and the big corporations…”
And if they went after Labour then I’m fairly certain that they’d get just as much dirt on them too! Shakespeare had it right when he wrote the words “a plague on both your houses”!
I agree with Paul. Labour also promoted privitisation in the NHS and Police.
But both the NHS and Police are badly managed and will never be fully funded. It’s always been the case and will probably always be so. OK we can raise more taxes, that never hurts, but let noone kid themselves, there will always be rationing and hard choices. .
I always disagreed with Labour on these issues
I agree that the NHS and police could be better managed – eliminating false markets would be step 1
Do that and they are highly likely to be better managed than the private sector – where the average quality of management is dire