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| Guardian
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PPP (+
other websites)
Special Report: Transport in
Britain (other reports) |
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| Independent
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Transport
index
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| FT |
Special
reports |
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| Catalyst Forum |
Hattersley fights back
Catalyst is a "new campaigning think tank for the labour movement and the left, committed to developing and promoting practical policies for the redistribution of wealth, power and opportunity".
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For activities
see events
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publications). |
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| London Mayor |
PPP
Guardian Special
Report: Livingstone's London |
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| IPPR |
Institute for Public Policy Research
(Links to UK Politics) |
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UK Labour Party Sleaze Millenium Edition Website
"Welcome to the website devoted entirely to Labour party sleaze!! At present there are around forty more articles to be added. This site is non-partisan, hence if the Tories had been in power they would have got the same treatment!"
Campaigns against PPP
Lib Dems
...contact me re other campaigns
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PPP |
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| 2003 |
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| Dec 29th |
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| The Guardian |
Revealed: tube crisis as firms fined £32m
Andrew Clark, transport correspondent
Travellers on the London Underground have endured a dramatic collapse in the network's reliability since its part privatisation a year ago, with private contractors being forced to pay heavy fines for failing to deliver on their commitments. |
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| Aug 20th |
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| The Guardian |
Private passion
Washington's fondness for privatisation and deregulation is creating dangerous problems at home and abroad, says Julian Borger. |
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| February 26th |
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| The Guardian |
Germany sells off the silver
In desperate need of cash, German local authorities are using byzantine and dubious arrangements to lease their assets to America, writes John Hooper. |
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| 2002 |
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| Dec 16th |
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| The Guardian |
Rail spending review raises fears of big cuts in jobs and services |
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"Senior MPs and transport groups reacted angrily to reports yesterday that huge cuts are planned in rail services and safety maintenance in a bid to slash spending", writes Alexis Akwagyiram.
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May 9th |
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'Privatise NHS' ads scorned by unions
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"Alan Milburn, the health secretary, provoked the scorn of Labour traditionalists yesterday when he placed adverts in national newspapers inviting the private sector to run failing NHS hospitals. ", write John Carvel and Terry Macalister.
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Guardian on
Public-private partnerships,
The NHS Plan
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April 21st |
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| The Guardian |
Legal brake could stop Tube plans |
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"Government plans ... could be thrown into turmoil by a new legal row centring on the independence of consultants used by Labour to validate the Public Private Partnership", writes Nick Mathiason.
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March 18th |
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| BBC |
The Moscow Metro - "The Best Underground System in the World Bar None" |
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For fuller details see our 'metro' page.
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March 8th |
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| The Guardian |
In-house teams 'better' than private contractors
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"Handing too many services to the private sector can leave a local authority "hollowed out" and at the mercy of an "imperfect" marketplace, says the report. This can destroy local government's ability to respond to changing targets and priorities", according to a new report from the Cardiff Business School. (author Tom Entwistle)
Other papers from Contract Line, on-line journal of Public Services Network (PSNet).
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Also from Society Guardian
Public-private partnerships,
The future for public services
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Jan 22nd |
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| The Guardian |
Very British corruption
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"The private finance initiative is rigged - and now we have a chance to stop it", writes George Monbiot, "...[it] can be implemented only with the help of an anti-competitive process which leads inexorably to corruption. If it were cleaned up so that it offered fair competition and value for public money, the big corporations would desert it. Public services would, once more, be controlled by the public." |
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| 2001 |
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| Nov 25th |
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| Observer |
Fury over Blair ally's NHS cash
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A private healthcare company headed by one of Tony Blair's closest allies is making millions of pounds from acute NHS staff shortages, The Observer has discovered.
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Oct 19th |
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PPP - Pathetic, Pathetic, Pathetic, by Tony Travers.
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Aug 26th |
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| Observer |
Accountants'
words that shame a whole strategy
What the accountants Deloitte
and Touche have done in their confidential report on London's Public
Private Partnership is to expose a mendacious gerrymander that sets out
unfairly to rig the rules so that whatever LU does it can be depicted
always as less efficient than the private sector....There are four
dodges.... |
View Report
(.pdf)
Transport
for London comment |
| Aug 7th |
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| this is
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Blair
versus the people of London, by Max Hastings.
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July 30th |
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| Guardian |
Mayor
loses bid to block PPP for tube |
Has a list of links and further articles |
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| July 12th |
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No
private company is prepared to take on Brixton prison |
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Our
schools need gowns, not suits
Two elections now have shown some
distaste by the electorate for this rabid pro-private sector prejudice,
Hutton
Filthy,
gloomy and chaotic
Beneath the gleaming façade lurks a catalogue
of horrors that nurses, doctors and unions insist prove the Government's
much loved private finance initiative is not just bad in theory: they have
lived with it, and it does not work in practice. Also
more on health. |
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| July 7th |
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| Guardian |
Ken
vs New Labour round 2?
Ken writes |
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| June 25th |
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| Guardian |
Institute for Public Policy
Research (qv) and their critique of
PPP
(Story * Comment) |
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Railtrack on brink of
collapse |
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Guardian
Talk |
| May 13th |
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Roy
Hattersley: A nation derailed by privatisation
"... what we all hate about the men who run the railways is their preoccupation with profit. That is why the Byers scheme for the almost nationalisation of Railtrack was greeted with such general enthusiasm. ..." |
Guardian
Special report:
Potters Bar crash
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| 2001 |
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| Oct 15th |
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Roy
Hattersley: The decision on Railtrack was correct
"I begin with the admission that I am irredeemably
biased against Stephen Byers. The secretary of state ... was the first New
Labour minister to announce that increasing inequality is not a phenomenon
that should trouble us. The size of the cake is, he said, more
important than the way in which it is cut." |
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| Oct 14th |
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| Guardian |
How
not to run a railway
"... The alternative of
using more public, not private, money is attractive because government can
borrow much more cheaply. The catch is it would count as government
borrowing and so be opposed by the Treasury." |
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| Oct 9th |
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Faults
in the privatized structure
"Railtrack sees the
operation of the railway as a bit of a hindrance to its role, which is
more being a substantial property company." (Railtrack
signaller)
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NB blame allocation |
| Independent
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'Investors
cannot claim they were not warned' |
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Oct 7th |
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| Observer |
Will
Hutton sets out the debate inside government
No
longer available check here |
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| BBC |
Railtrack
on brink of collapse |
DoT, SRA |
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New Labour New Value(s)