‘Reconnecting’ is the buzz word for the political class. They all agree it’s necessary, but very few have any serious ideas about how it might be achieved, and through force of inertia they easily slip back into the old ways. What they don’t realise is that it’s more about their constituents feeling able to reconnect as […]
Posts Tagged ‘Serco’
The political class won’t “reconnect” until markets are drastically reformed
Jun 19th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.Private oligarchs have it all stitched up in Whitehall outsourcing
Mar 6th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.Once upon a time we had nationalised industries; now we have Capita, G4S, Serco, A4E, and the rest of a small coterie of private conglomerates who dominate the service world. Unlike the nationalised industries they have no specialist focus, but merely bid for anything going, much of which they handle poorly or badly as we […]
First big cracks appear in Lansley’s privatised health service
May 27th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The whistleblowers who have revealed serious deficiencies in an out-of-hours GP service run by a large private health company which is believed to be putting patient care at risk have performed an important public service. This concerns the contract in Cornwall run by Serco, a private operator which provides services for government in defence, prisons, […]