{"id":8956,"date":"2011-02-21T17:28:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2011-02-21T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:28:43","slug":"enclosing-the-public-sector-for-private-gain-and-destroying-democratic-choice-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/02\/21\/enclosing-the-public-sector-for-private-gain-and-destroying-democratic-choice-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Enclosing the public sector for private gain – and destroying democratic choice on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a blog on the above theme last July<\/a>. In it I argued that:<\/p>\n

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Private enterprise has no clue how to generate wealth right now. I mentioned the consequence<\/a> a while ago. Private business has no idea what to invest in now, no new product to make, no big idea to offer.<\/p>\n

So this government is offering it the NHS, education and more so that public benefit can be enclosed for private gain.<\/p>\n

This is what happened two hundred years ago.<\/p>\n

And it’s happening again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Today Cameron announced<\/a> that this is what he's now going to do: all public service is in effect open to private sector bidding.<\/p>\n

So we have a situation where, very deliberately a prime minister elected without a majority will try to ensure the end of public service in the UK.<\/p>\n

Alice Hood explains many of the consequences on the TUC blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I offer this thought: I have no doubt the contracts offered will be for more than ten years. Centrica, Serco, and others will be laughing all the way to the bank. But this is a fundamental threat to democracy: if these contracts are written so they cannot be cancelled by an incoming government they will undermine real democratic choice.<\/p>\n

And that's the real agenda here, I have no doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote a blog on the above theme last July. In it I argued that: Private enterprise has no clue how to generate wealth right
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