PRIVATISE EVERYTHING!!!

[x_butterfly19_x]

David Cameron promises to 'end state's monopoly' over public services
Prime minister unveils white paper that promises to allow private providers to deliver more public services

David Cameron has unveiled plans to shake up the "old fashioned" delivery of public services by ending the state's "monopoly" over provision and paving a wider path for

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[ceilidh]

Confidential documents obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that ministers have been privately advised to allow schools and hospitals to fail if the government is to succeed in its overhaul of public services.

Which is exactly the shit that's going on here in the US, they just haven't flat out admitted it yet.

[dawn9476]

Like just about every Republican here in the states, David Cameron is an awful human being.

[mirhanda]

This

[gildinwen]

Expect that due to his "support" of the NHS and Human right laws etc he'd be a Democrat.

[mephisto5]

-_-

... localisation and personalisation of services to meet an area's unique needs rather than central targers can be a good thing; and creation of a level playing field for companies bidding against the public sector, rather than giving the private sector preferential treatment as happened under the Labour government with health provision is again, a good thing.

HOWEVER

Neither of these should be used as smokescreen reasons to introduce privatisation of public services, especially if the privatisation is primarily motivated by an idealogical loathing of the public sector or as a cover for cuts. Privatisation can work in some circumstances when there is sufficient intrest and investment (e.g. telephones), but has failed horribly in others (e.g. railways) and needs careful consideration before implementation. Nothing about the first year or so of Cameron's government has suggested that he thinks things through or that he has any appreciation of the challenges facing the people who require these services.

[x_butterfly19_x]

All of this.
New Labour did some not cool things, please don't let this lot further muck us around.

[gildinwen]

THIS.

[katiechainsaw]

He has some nerve using his disabled child as an example to promote this godamm liberalisation vision that fucking Thatcher started, AT THE SAME TIME that he's cutting benefits for seriously disabled people and fucking up the people who need benefits to live on.

FUCK OFF AND DIE CAMERON!

[anjak_j]

Almost exactly what I was going to say.

[lisaee]

Seriously. My family are losing out this year, and we're the kind of family he pledged to protect. I find it hard to believe that he truly gives a shit about other people's severely disabled children.

[she_shies_away]

So, when you see that kids who rely on free school meals don't perform as well academically as other students (probably because they're poor, undernourished, have to work earlier and more than their peers, etc), your answer is to slash their free meals since *that's* the thing that's holding them back from academic achievement? Free food that they need?
Some days I hate the whole fucking world. And as someone who is currently completely reliant on social services, this shit scares me so hard.

When the welfare state fails to deliver welfare, the answer is to fix the gaps and increase service, not decimate it entirely. SMH.

[mirhanda]

I agree. They probably don't have a lot of academic support at home since the parents are probably gone a lot just to keep food on the table. They need MORE services, not LESS for crying out loud!