Tuesday, May 22, 2007
22/05/07 – QUESTION, DOES PETER HAIN’S LEFT HAND KNOW WHAT HIS RIGHT HAND IS DOING?
This post is in response to a small clip that was shown on the news the other day, the clip was of a husting of the labour party deputy leadership candidates. It was only a small clip but it was enough to show how oblivious he was to the impact of Labour’s policy.
The clip was of Peter Hain fielding a question, and he replied in the following manner: “…For the first time Labour are behind the Tories on the NHS, the Tories who will contract out and privatise parts of the NHS…”
Now is it just me who is thinking, ‘is he serious?’ Labour have privatised and contracted out large sections of the health and education sectors under the pretences of PFI, contractual arrangements that give control of large areas of public procurement and day-to-day operations of many sections of the health and education sectors to the private sector and still Peter Hain has the audacity to say that the Tories would do it and when the Tories do it will be bad. LABOUR HAS DISMANTLED THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND IS AUCTIONING IT OFF PIECE BY PIECE.
Peter Hain’s argument is in the face that private companies now build hospitals and schools at greatly inflated prices, one hospital was commissioned at a capital cost of £250,000,000.00 and Labour have committed the tax payers to repaying £950,000,000.00, it would have been more cost affective if the state had build the hospital and put the cost on the national debt, but then out goes prudence and out goes the chancellors reputation, which must be retained at any cost (any cost to the tax payer that is). Moreover, in these PFI contracts Labour have given the private sector the responsibility of maintenance of these facilities, which is a highly bureaucratic affair (reportedly) with schools not permitted to contact the sub-contractors who do the work, they have to go to the LEA (whom the contract is with) who contact the private sector financer, who then contact the sub-contractor and commission the work, (the private financer charges the rate that was agreed in the contract – so you can imagine how cumbersome these documents are) it is a lot of work just to replace a light bulb, I think that you will all agree.
So back to my original point Peter Hain is claiming that the Tories = bad, he claims that the Tories = the dismantlement of public services, and he claims that the Tories = Armageddon. Well I have news for him and any body else that believes that Labour are the party of public services they have contracted out large sections of the NHS to private firms, a point that Peter Hain should know since after the health service of his own constituency contracted out its hygiene services (cleaning services) they were unable to impose a stricter regime of hygiene standards because the iron clad contract only mandated a certain level and the health authority couldn’t insist on stricter measures. So Labour have instigated a contractual system that has put parts out the public services outside of public accountability, and they still have the audacity to cry woof and say that the Tories would do the same thing.
Disbelief, Labour has to resort to scare tactics in order to garnish support and now they are scare mongering, telling people that the conservatives are going to do something bad, but omitting the fact that they have already done this very same deed.
¶ 8:36 PM The clip was of Peter Hain fielding a question, and he replied in the following manner: “…For the first time Labour are behind the Tories on the NHS, the Tories who will contract out and privatise parts of the NHS…”
Now is it just me who is thinking, ‘is he serious?’ Labour have privatised and contracted out large sections of the health and education sectors under the pretences of PFI, contractual arrangements that give control of large areas of public procurement and day-to-day operations of many sections of the health and education sectors to the private sector and still Peter Hain has the audacity to say that the Tories would do it and when the Tories do it will be bad. LABOUR HAS DISMANTLED THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND IS AUCTIONING IT OFF PIECE BY PIECE.
Peter Hain’s argument is in the face that private companies now build hospitals and schools at greatly inflated prices, one hospital was commissioned at a capital cost of £250,000,000.00 and Labour have committed the tax payers to repaying £950,000,000.00, it would have been more cost affective if the state had build the hospital and put the cost on the national debt, but then out goes prudence and out goes the chancellors reputation, which must be retained at any cost (any cost to the tax payer that is). Moreover, in these PFI contracts Labour have given the private sector the responsibility of maintenance of these facilities, which is a highly bureaucratic affair (reportedly) with schools not permitted to contact the sub-contractors who do the work, they have to go to the LEA (whom the contract is with) who contact the private sector financer, who then contact the sub-contractor and commission the work, (the private financer charges the rate that was agreed in the contract – so you can imagine how cumbersome these documents are) it is a lot of work just to replace a light bulb, I think that you will all agree.
So back to my original point Peter Hain is claiming that the Tories = bad, he claims that the Tories = the dismantlement of public services, and he claims that the Tories = Armageddon. Well I have news for him and any body else that believes that Labour are the party of public services they have contracted out large sections of the NHS to private firms, a point that Peter Hain should know since after the health service of his own constituency contracted out its hygiene services (cleaning services) they were unable to impose a stricter regime of hygiene standards because the iron clad contract only mandated a certain level and the health authority couldn’t insist on stricter measures. So Labour have instigated a contractual system that has put parts out the public services outside of public accountability, and they still have the audacity to cry woof and say that the Tories would do the same thing.
Disbelief, Labour has to resort to scare tactics in order to garnish support and now they are scare mongering, telling people that the conservatives are going to do something bad, but omitting the fact that they have already done this very same deed.
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