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A nation of greed
Probably the most obvious statement ever made about modern Britain but it’s come to the point where I think we need a debate about whether we should be following the American model of making money out of absolutely everything, or doing things as we used to do them.
The latest that thing that irritates me is a piece I heard on Today . To précis, they are saying that if we hand over all the school to these private companies they will farm out the building to a management company and then you’ll lease it back, and the teaching side of things will be handled by another company etc. etc. Sounds familiar? NHS?
As we know very well, the NHS is in debt on this type of arrangement to the tune of a fair few billions and the M6 Toll has been a complete failure. So what’s the agenda here? And who is making money out of it? American shareholders perhaps? Where will it stop?…
That’s possibly the most annoying thing I’ll read this month. A nation of greed? No. Not even a little bit.
I’d comment on the site that it’s written on and explain that answer and why the rest of the post is simplistic drivel but it’s closed to registration.
I haven’t read anything that’s pushed my buttons as much as that outside of a Littlejohn column for a long time.