Couldn't run a bath

The news that the British government is to allow private companies to manage 'failing' NHS hospitals is no real surprise but it still manages to piss people off. The idea is tediously predictable and perfunctorily announced, "Bringing in commercial companies to run hospitals is one of several options that the Government has drawn up for improving the performance of NHS trusts that fail to meet new standards on quality, finance and care. "

They feel so confident in the idea that they have changed people's behaviour, that they have changed the way we think about social provision, care and politics that the governance can blithely presume we'll swallow the hiving off of the NHS because 'private good public bad'. It is assumed that we will ignore the inconvenient data about the current banking crisis, the swathe of corruption in the city and the stony faced theft, in the shape of huge shareholder dividends, that the former public utilities have inflicted on the public.

No one is convinced by the weasly words of Bradshaw "the NHS will retain control of assets and the staff will still be NHS staff” so it's not really privatisation. Of course it is you lying get. The chairman of the BMA puts it better when he remarks, "They [private companies] would just aim to make a profit rather than the driver being the high-quality care our patients need."

These Bradfoar and Bingley and Northern Cock types really shouldn't be trusted with a tombola at a fête. Let them run the accident and emergency??? Fucking well put them in there more like.