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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Walt Zingmatilder on May 16, 2018, 07:33:52 AM

Title: Carillion, the rot that started with Blair
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on May 16, 2018, 07:33:52 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/16/recklessness-hubris-and-greed-carillion-slammed-by-mps

Tony Blair thought he could tame capitalism and harness it to public service.
Naive.
That utter shower The Women's Institute gave him a taste of the intent of Toryism.

Title: Re: Carillion, the rot that started with Blair
Post by: Harrowby Hall on May 16, 2018, 08:37:05 AM

I haven't a clue about what passes for thought in your brain, Vlad, but what has the dominance of four multi-national accounting firms (two with headquarters in London, one in New York and one in Amsterdam) got to do with Tony Blair?

As far as Carillion is concerned, surely the rot started with Thatcher who - if I recall correctly - maintained that private enterprise was inherently more efficient than public enterprise and so began the the long process of privatisation. The outsourcing of government activity is merely a logical extension of privatisation.

Title: Re: Carillion, the rot that started with Blair
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on May 16, 2018, 08:40:45 AM

Quote from: Harrowby Hall on May 16, 2018, 08:37:05 AM

I haven't a clue......

Well at least we can agree on that.

Title: Re: Carillion, the rot that started with Blair
Post by: Harrowby Hall on May 16, 2018, 09:03:06 AM

Vlad, you are (I gather from your choice of subject title) attempting to make a point about the involvement of the Blair government in the development of government outsourcing. And to support this you reference a newspaper article about the dominance of four accountancy firms.

Does Matron know that you're at the computer again?