• thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    those contracts take years to tender and likely have huge clawback clauses. I doubt that Labour got into power and immediately signed contracts for things like this. More likely it was more expensive to stop it.

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      26 days ago

      Bingo. I also suspect they’re gambling on it being a failure. Hard ball behaviour if true but a failure of such a privatisation would be very high profile and likely put a stop to anything similar for a long time.

      Also note that failures to meet agreed standards will have penalties so it might be possible for labour to force them out that way.

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      25 days ago

      This is the miserable reality of the “lesser of two evils” of FPTP voting systems. This is supposed to be the “good” choice.