The Great Consolidation
What more can the government shut down? Oh yes, doctors’ surgeries.
Archive for the 'privatisation' Category
The Patient Stalkers
Beware of privatisation schemes dressed up as customer choice.
The Fat Cats Protection League
Wherever you hear the words “free market”, you’ll find massive state handouts to corporations
An Easter Egg Hunt
The £95 million that private companies extracted from a hospital project was not a mistake, but a deliberate gift from the government.
A Good Model for a Mugging
Labour’s first full-scale privatisation involves the multiple fleecing of the taxpayer
Our Very Own Enron?
Is the private finance initiative melting down?
A Scandal of Secrecy and Collusion
Why have we paid £93m for a £15m bridge?
Road Hogs
Even the government’s private finance success story turns out to be a roaring failure
Exploitation on Tap
Why is Britain using its aid money to persuade South Africa to privatise its public services?
This Is What We Paid For
Britain’s foreign aid has been used to bankroll a programme for mass starvation
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On the Edge of Lunacy
British foreign aid is being directed to countries willing to sell off their assets to big business
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The Patient is Dying
The Labour Party has 24 hours to save the National Health Service
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Do As We Say, Not As We Do
The free market is imposed on the poor world, but absent from the rich world
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A Challenge to the Chancellor
Refute these charges, or admit that the private finance initiative is built on fraud and false accounting
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Private Affluence, Public Rip-Off
New Labour’s enthusiasm for business is matched only by its lack of business sense, as the private finance fiasco shows.
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Very British Corruption
The private finance initiative is rigged from beginning to end; but now we have the chance to stop it
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The Corporate Takeover of Childhood
Schools are being privatised in order to develop a new export industry
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Could this be Labour’s poll tax?
The attack on New York has suppressed discussion of the Private Finance Initiative; but not for long.
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Private Finance - Keep Out!
As public services are part-privatised, the business of the state is being shrouded by “commercial confidentiality”
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Bleeding Us Dry
Money is being siphoned out of our new hospitals before they receive a single patient
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The NHS is Being Privatised
But so subtly that even ministers don’t seem to know what’s going on
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Totalitarian Capitalism
Corporations are seizing the genome, but that’s only the beginning
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Don’t Get Sick!
The Private Finance Initiative is forcing doctors to work dangerously long hours
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The Great Railway Swindle
Private enterprise flourishes at public expense
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Cuckoos in the Nest
The corporate capture of the National Health Service means that it can only shrink, not grow.
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