Privatisation and austerity don’t cut costs: they just pass them on to us.
Category: privatisation
Lying Through Their Teeth
What the government has done to NHS Dentistry is what it wants to do to the rest of our public services.
Bleeding Out
Thanks to systemic and deliberate underfunding, NHS Emergency departments are now a vision of hell.
A Total Fiasco
England’s response to the coronavirus pandemic now relies on unskilled teenaged call centre workers, taking the place of experienced clinicians.
Without Trace
The huge amount of public money spent on test and trace has been wasted by incompetent private contractors and executives, with devastating results.
Quantomania
Neoliberalism promised to save us from bureaucracy. Instead, it has delivered a mad, semi-privatised authoritarianism
The Sting
Repeated warnings that the Private Finance Initiative was an outrageous rip-off, dumping ultimate risks on the taxpayer, were ignored
Rooting Out Democracy
The Sheffield tree massacre is one result of the monstrous, impenetrable officialdom that neoliberalism creates
The Self-Hating State
Devolving policy to “the market” doesn’t solve the problem of power. It makes it worse.
The UK’s Odious Debts
Many PFI deals were undemocratic and against the national interest. It’s time we stopped honouring them.
The Real Expenses Scandal
It’s a thousand times bigger than the one we’re talking about, so why doesn’t it ignite public anger?
The Biggest, Weirdest Rip-Off Yet
The widening of the M25 is a private finance initiative scheme that requires little private finance. Or initiative.
The Proceeds of Crime
The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives.
The Great Consolidation
What more can the government shut down? Oh yes, doctors’ surgeries.
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?