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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: albie on July 07, 2024, 07:41:53 pm

Title: PFI
Post by: albie on July 07, 2024, 07:41:53 pm

Decent summary of PFI for project finance under Labour;
https://inews.co.uk/news/labours-private-finance-plans-risk-a-repeat-of-blairs-pfi-disasters-experts-warn-3144694?ico=most_popular

Title: Re: PFI
Post by: albie on July 12, 2024, 01:16:55 pm

Good article in Open Democracy on the lobbying involved in Labour policy development:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/lovebombed-by-lobbyists-how-starmer-labour-became-the-party-of-big-business/

Fingers in the pie for PFI Mk 2.
Some might call it corrupt!

Title: Re: PFI
Post by: Sprotyrover on July 12, 2024, 03:53:28 pm

Quote from: albie on July 12, 2024, 01:16:55 pm

Good article in Open Democracy on the lobbying involved in Labour policy development:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/lovebombed-by-lobbyists-how-starmer-labour-became-the-party-of-big-business/

Fingers in the pie for PFI Mk 2.
Some might call it corrupt!

Good grief if this had been the Tories half of our regular posters would be forming a lynch mob!
Where does socialism come into this?

Title: Re: PFI
Post by: danumdon on July 12, 2024, 05:29:03 pm

It was an absolute disaster first time around for all the local councils left holding this pile of garbage that Brown cooked up. Some local authorities will be paying for these failings for the next couple of generations.

Would Labour really dare to go down this same road?