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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Councils don't like having council houses - being a big landlord is a PIA with tenants moaning if things go wrong and councillors on the war path if they think they may lose their seats. The outsourcing of maintenance was a major relief.
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I know for a fact that many councillors are on the take with regard to local decisions, service provision and planning.
Local government waste is rife thats that's why they complain of constant budget deficits but are happy to take their huge salaries and platinum pensions.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7lmZbiV4AAr8aE.jpg
Decline and fall is not inevitable. and it won't happen. Has Ireland even got a navy?
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It would be easier to trot out a list of insults about Ireland
In fact, the country that will be the most affected negatively by Brexit will be Ireland
It's a nationalist paper, and so would be very anti-Brexit
amazingly, this SNP-supporting paper also thinks Brexit is a terrible mistake: http://www.thenational.scot/
... as that directly proves. Same workers, better management, so better results.
Thereby adding the extra cost of profit-taking and shareholder dividends that wasn't present before.
Very true, hence they need to be run by independent publicly-owned companies rather than directly by the councils, so there isn't the problem for the councils and there isn't the profit-taking of the private sector.
The private sector being 'more efficient' is a myth - it can't be, because money is taken out of the system to provide the profits of the private contractors.
And once companies like Serco get big enough they become semi-monopolistic and can push their prices up knowing that smaller competitors can't easily get into the market.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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Instead we now have near-monopolistic private companies like Serco which make a fat profit from milking the system, are constantly trying to increase their takeover of public services, but are not publicly accountable in any way. And guess which political party they donate to...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I thought you had read the Tim Harford's books?
they should be able to explain to anyone why, even with profits, the private sector is more efficient
Fretwired has seen it first hand, so have I
Does this mean the NHS should be fully privatised?
Genuine question, I'm not intending to load it at all. But if you took your theory to it's logical conclusion, we'd have a system similar to the US I'd imagine.
My guess is that there would be certain bits that would be retained under state control, I have no idea which
I can't see how that would be anything like the USA though
From my very limited experience with foreign healthcare, I thought France would be most like that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France
Get rid of the buildings and outsource their maintenance to a large estate management company like DTZ - they could raise cash to build new hospitals and lease them back to the government. Far cheaper than PFI.
And let companies sponsor ambulances and hospitals - I bet you could raise serious cash via advertising opportunities. Buses have done it for years.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!