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Having spent nearly ten years dealing with outsourcing, privatisation and other fuckery in the NHS I can say that my opinion of the documents when I read them this morning is that they are very worrying.
In my experience, you have to look for what is conspicuously absent in documents like this rather than what they explicitly say.
Most if not all of the preliminary reports I saw that were written by the government (admittedly not just Tory) did not even hint at the possibility of outsourcing or privatisation bit it still happened. People know not to put shit like this in writing.
Stonehedge-
Having spent nearly ten years dealing with outsourcing, privatisation and other fuckery in the NHS I can say that my opinion of the documents when I read them this morning is that they are very worrying.
In my experience, you have to look for what is conspicuously absent in documents like this rather than what they explicitly say.
Most if not all of the preliminary reports I saw that were written by the government (admittedly not just Tory) did not even hint at the possibility of outsourcing or privatisation bit it still happened. People know not to put shit like this in writing.
Yes, exactly. Things like this also tend to be couched in all sorts of impenetrable acronyms, cross-references, obscure relationships between concepts and initiatives, misdirection, and euphemisms. As far as what's been going on with the NHS is concerned, it's been death by a thousand cuts, in which by 'cuts' I don't mean to refer only to actual cuts, as a lot of what's been going on has wasted more and more public money to give the impression the NHS isn't viable in public hands when what's actually been going on is that public money has been siphoned off by private companies supposedly delivering 'NHS' services. Obviously, in various ways this has been going on since the 1990s.
Oliver Schick
From what I've seen so far the NHS stuff doesn't look that bombshelly. Is there anything that I've missed that could really derail the Tories?