IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
Radical action is needed, not just to stop the tide of privatisation but to reverse it
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AFTER Carillion imploded last year, many argued this was the final nail in the coffin of privatisation, outsourcing and PFI.
As Unison and others had warned from the outset of these dangerous experiments, it’s staff and anyone who uses local services who bear the brunt of the inevitable cost-cutting.
Worse still for its ideological proponents, privatisation has failed on its own terms. Rather than providing a more efficient and cheaper way of delivering public services, private firms have delivered collapse and failure with little incentive to improve the services they provide.
So here we stand today, with nothing of significance having changed for the better. Worse still, the lessons of Carillion’s collapse appear to be forgotten.
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