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Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St
You missed of the PFI scandal. First introduced ,by Major and slammed at the time by Labour as 'backdoor privatisation', when Blair and Brown got their hands on things PFI really took off after 1996. We (tax payers) will be paying £300 to a private contractor to change a light bulb in a hospital for decades to come.
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I worked in the NHS at the time PFI was mooted.
I raised concerns at many meetings.
It seemed ludicrous to me that the taxpayer would be saddled with a debt, the extent of which was very unclear(but it was certainly going to be a lot)...that coupled with the fact that contractors would be responsible(charging the NHS stupid amounts) for general upkeep and maintenance.
All this so that borrowing would not appear on the governments books.
It was a sly and duplicitous way to get the general public to think that New Labour cared about services.
New Labour ensured that big businesses could prosper at our expense...it was more Tory, than Tory ever was.
Tony Blair did much to destroy the Labour Party and the fabric of the country...if you vote Labour next Thursday you will be giving Jeremy Corbyn the permission to finish of the job and take a shovel and bury this country.