Tories prepare wholesale privatisation of UK health, education, essential services

[Hannah Bell]

The Conservative-Liberal Democrat government is to bring forward legislation for the most far-ranging assault on public provision since the creation of the welfare state following World War II.

The government has sought to portray the legislation as part of its so-called “Big Society” plan, based on decentralisation, localism and volunteering. But, as Prime Minister David Cameron admitted, the Open Public Services White Paper is intended as a legislative “battering ram to break open monopolies”. At its heart will be the automatic right for private corporations to take over public service provision.

Cameron said there will be a “new presumption…that public services should be open to a range of providers competing to offer a better service,” although “of course” this would not apply to “some areas—such as national security or the judiciary—where this wouldn’t make sense.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/priv-m04.shtml

[DJ13]

1. Im glad they're doing this ahead of us

When their economy crashes and burns hopefully we wont have gone so far that we cant turn back towards sanity.

[rpannier]

2. That is true

If we can hold out lone enough for them to enact and implement the plan, when it destroys them it may bring people to their senses
I'm just afraid we'll be following this wreck too closely to hit the breaks

[Overseas]

3. Looks awful. Time to rerun The New Statesman with Rik Mayall.

Great series from the disgusting Thacher days.

[StarsInHerHair]

4. yet in "privatizing" the corps get the UK taxpayers money & ALL corps. care

about is making money...."The coalition government is slashing public spending and cutting government funding to local authorities as it seeks to make working people pay the cost of the multibillion-pound bailout of the banks and financial institutions. Tens of thousands of workers are being laid off and vital services undermined or closed altogether. In the immediate period, working people will be confronted with little or no “choice” as to health, education and public provision, as much of this is cut to the bone.".....