Another Privatisation Flop.

[Canary42]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/27/private-probation-companies-contracts-ended-early-justice?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

£500 million wasted on just one of Chris Grayling's failed ideological experiments, yet the staggeringly incompetent Tory buffoon is still in government, and now presiding over one failure after another as Transport Secretary.

If the UK had anything resembling a decent press then this scandalously expensive privatisation failure would be headline news. Instead it's barely being covered except a couple of articles in the Guardian and Mirror, with the others too intent on propagating Hard Right dogma.

So serially incompetent Tories like Chris Grayling simply aren't held to account, and get to shift from one government department to another leaving enormous and ridiculously expensive trails of destruction in their wake.

Privatisation of public services is Robin Hood in reverse - taxpayers money being trousered by rich shareholders and obscenely overpaid Boardroom blunderers.

[gulliver1]

Have to agree N/J,there was nothing wrong with "The Poll Tax" or Community charge to give it its correct title , It was the start of the end of Thatcher . The best move she ever made . Very correct indeed N/J.

[Deskdiary]

^^^it must be nice to be a soft in the head.

[gulliver1]

Desk diary , have to agree with you,Thatcher did go a little soft in the head in the end , not very nice though,not her fault .

[ToraToraTora]

the community charge was much better than what we have now. Sadly though the great unwashed hated the idea that they'd have to contribute to local funding when previously only property owners paid.

[fender62]

thatch sold off public housing...bad idea, unless your in well paid work these days, the rest made a profit sold up, or sublet.

[Theland]

What's best for the many not the few?

[10ClarionSt]

I can imagine Corbyn in power. I want him in. With any luck all the smug Tories and their supporters will emigrate and he'll clean up the mess that pillocks like Grayling have created.

[Theland]

Now there is an interesting debate.
I am in the dark.
My family paid more, a lot more.
Why?
It didn't feel fair.
Was the support to,local authorities cut also to increase the burden on the many?
I just don't know.

[CrapAtCryptics]

If they arent reaching standards they agreed to why are we paying them - they should hand back the balance of the uncovered time to fund whatever the replacement will be.

[Theland]

What happened to the money from the council house sales?