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That's Socialism In Action.
NHS admin worker who ordered £160,000 of printer cartridges no-one needed and sold them on eBay is locked up
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Anything run by the state rapidly becomes inefficient and wide open to this type of racket. It's true that some big multi-nationals are also bad at times but at least the tax payer doesn't automatically pick up the tab.
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Anything run by the state rapidly becomes inefficient and wide open to this type of racket. It's true that some big multi-nationals are also bad at times but at least the tax payer doesn't automatically pick up the tab.
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I don't know that it has particularly anything to do with Socialism, modeller. Although it’s true that this escapade began under a Labour government, it clearly continued after 2010.
What it does demonstrate is that the State is not the best outfit to oversee the expenditure of taxpayers’ money. State run organisations are notoriously lax in their budgetary control (I have had numerous dealings with them and I’m often amazed when employees are told to spend the remainder of their budget in the run up to the end of the financial year because if they don‘t “they won’t get as much next year”). I cannot imagine any private firm answerable to a board and shareholders failing to notice that their bill for printer cartridges had increased about 25 fold in a fairly short period).
I don’t think such behaviour is restricted to periods under Socialist administrations.
What it does demonstrate is that the State is not the best outfit to oversee the expenditure of taxpayers’ money. State run organisations are notoriously lax in their budgetary control (I have had numerous dealings with them and I’m often amazed when employees are told to spend the remainder of their budget in the run up to the end of the financial year because if they don‘t “they won’t get as much next year”). I cannot imagine any private firm answerable to a board and shareholders failing to notice that their bill for printer cartridges had increased about 25 fold in a fairly short period).
I don’t think such behaviour is restricted to periods under Socialist administrations.
Remarkable ! Another instance of agreement with NJ ;)
This is a failure of audit control and departmental management, rather than an indictment of "socialism" as such.
I have seen instances of this kind of thing myself in the private sector; For a while I ran a consultancy business offering audit control of departmental budgets for a range of businesses across various industry sectors, and during that period came across at least 2 occasions where someone was defrauding the company by ordering stuff to sell on for themselves. In each instance, it was due to lax audit control within the department; a failure of middle management rather than some indictment of political ideology.
This is a failure of audit control and departmental management, rather than an indictment of "socialism" as such.
I have seen instances of this kind of thing myself in the private sector; For a while I ran a consultancy business offering audit control of departmental budgets for a range of businesses across various industry sectors, and during that period came across at least 2 occasions where someone was defrauding the company by ordering stuff to sell on for themselves. In each instance, it was due to lax audit control within the department; a failure of middle management rather than some indictment of political ideology.
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I criticised Socialism because after the war Labour went overboard nationalising everything in sight and they all failed. I'm not suggesting we shouldn't have some public services run by the state but don't expect efficiency. The USSR was an example of 100% Socialism and a 100% failure .
OK so it wasn't 100% but you get the picture. I spent time in the USSR so I saw it at first hand.
Bouncer //130 million ? ? // Does that compensate for Socialism's wasted Billions !!
OK so it wasn't 100% but you get the picture. I spent time in the USSR so I saw it at first hand.
Bouncer //130 million ? ? // Does that compensate for Socialism's wasted Billions !!
Thats your opinion, Modeller. As someone who in my working life, worked in the public sector, the private sector, and run my own business, I can tell you that some departments within the public sector are bad- at service, at audit, at everything, and others are brilliant - and you get that same kind of mix in the private sector too, and in owner run small businesses too.
But I certainly do not buy this hyperbole of yours that "everything was nationalised by labour after the war" and that they all failed. The fact that, for instance, the NHS is still there speaks to the illogic of that statement. And you could leigitimately question just how good the private sector have managed the infrastructure network of this country since they have been sold off, usually at well under market value.
But I certainly do not buy this hyperbole of yours that "everything was nationalised by labour after the war" and that they all failed. The fact that, for instance, the NHS is still there speaks to the illogic of that statement. And you could leigitimately question just how good the private sector have managed the infrastructure network of this country since they have been sold off, usually at well under market value.
Lazygun..I have also worked in the public sector! private sector and owned 2 small businesses and agree that one has good and bad in all sectors.
However, ther is a difference in thT in the public sector one is wasting taxpayers money....yours and my hard earned money whereas in the other sectors, waste affects the success or otherwise of the business venture.
You mention the NHS.....that has always been considered to be bottomless pit, always hungry for greater financial resources.....-also from the taxpayer.o
However, ther is a difference in thT in the public sector one is wasting taxpayers money....yours and my hard earned money whereas in the other sectors, waste affects the success or otherwise of the business venture.
You mention the NHS.....that has always been considered to be bottomless pit, always hungry for greater financial resources.....-also from the taxpayer.o
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