09.04.07 - 09:28am
A scheme that should have provided two upgraded hospitals at a cost of £30m has ballooned to £410m. And the reason the original plan was changed was purely to provide a profit-motive to entice corporations to get involved. And the kicker is, of course, that PFI schemes are long term deals, locking the taxpayer into yearly payments while the British Labour/Conservative dichotomy continues to morph into two wings of a single business party, US-style, with neither the desire nor the will to do what is necessary in the public interest.
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08.29.07 - 02:25pm
False moral panics about criminals and thugs getting of scott free notwithstanding, Britain is, alarmingly, locking up ever increasing numbers of offenders in already overcrowded and understaffed prisons. Then at the same time the Government keeps tightening the thumbscrews on those who staff these prisons with below inflation pay rises, 1.9% this year.
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08.19.07 - 01:02pm
Our economic system routinely rewards those who contribute relatively little to the public good while those who do exactly that are expected to make do with a pittance and a warm glow
Nurses in England will decide by the middle of September whether to take industrial action over the government’s final below inflation pay offer, […]
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08.04.07 - 11:43am
With bridges collapsing in the United States and the ongoing war in the Middle East, who wants to waste their time with something as crushingly dull as the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme? Well, when it is siphoning half a billion pounds a year out of our pockets to feather the pillows of one of the world’s most profitable industries it is worth paying attention to.
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08.03.07 - 08:48am
“I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking - they’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests.”
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