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Labour Just Oversaw a £1.3 BILLION Sell-Off of NHS Services to a Private Equity Firm (www.thecanary.co)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

"Labour", indeed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

Thatcher would be so proud

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Neoliberals have discovered salami tactics to destroy social welfare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvang

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I hate Labour. I don’t think anyone that voted for Labour voted for this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

This is the miserable reality of the "lesser of two evils" of FPTP voting systems. This is supposed to be the "good" choice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

those contracts take years to tender and likely have huge clawback clauses. I doubt that Labour got into power and immediately signed contracts for things like this. More likely it was more expensive to stop it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Bingo. I also suspect they're gambling on it being a failure. Hard ball behaviour if true but a failure of such a privatisation would be very high profile and likely put a stop to anything similar for a long time.

Also note that failures to meet agreed standards will have penalties so it might be possible for labour to force them out that way.