Summary
THE headlines last week included some pretty big ticket issues: penalties for young people who don't wish to accept the narrow range of options in the Young Person's Guarantee; 110,000 new homes; an upturn in manufacturing output; the apparent abandonment of attempts to privatise the Royal Mail; and the utter failure of the National Express operations of the East Coast Mainline leading to its re- nationalisation. What a week.
Of all of these events it is perhaps the dramatic failure of the privatisation of public services that is the most critical, given that the current Government and the main opposition party are both heavily committed to reducing the scale of public sector spending over the few years ahead - implying an increasing role for the private sector in delivering a range of public services.See the full content of this document
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Time for a Rethink On Essential Services
The official line that 'conditions right now don't make privatisation at this time the right thing to do' clearly...
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