{"id":4199,"date":"2009-07-01T09:56:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T07:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/07\/01\/labour-hasnt-understood-privatisation\/"},"modified":"2009-07-01T09:56:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T07:56:37","slug":"labour-hasnt-understood-privatisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/07\/01\/labour-hasnt-understood-privatisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour hasn&rsquo;t understood privatisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/4b151652-65ce-11de-8e34-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">the FT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The UK government is to take over the East Coast rail route between London and Edinburgh from <b>National Express<\/b>, the struggling bus and rail operator, which on Wednesday said it expected to walk away from the loss-making franchise later this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a toughly-worded statement, Lord Adonis, transport secretary, said: &ldquo;It is simply unacceptable to reap the benefits of contracts when times are good, only to walk away from them when times become more challenging.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I really think Andrew Adonis needs to smell the coffee: that&rsquo;s what private sector companies do. Didn&rsquo;t he realise? And it&rsquo;s also why they&rsquo;re quite unsuited to supply public services. <\/p>\n<p>When will the penny drop? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the FT: The UK government is to take over the East Coast rail route between London and Edinburgh from National Express, the struggling bus<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/07\/01\/labour-hasnt-understood-privatisation\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}