"But the essential principle that people in the public sector, whether they are community nursing teams, primary schools, jobcentres, would be able to take ownership of their own enterprise and run it as a non-for-profit social enterprise or cooperative providing state services is exactly what we are talking about."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010 ... es-osborneGeorge Osborne, the shadow chancellor, hailed the policy as the biggest shift of power to workers since Margaret Thatcher introduced the right to buy council houses in the 1980s.
So... you get to 'buy' the sinking ship, not to make money from it, not to cash in, but so that you can have a bash at how to make the cheap margarine spread even thinner on the bread. And this is somehow comparable to buying your council house for a fraction of it's market value, then selling it and being £K's richer? Anyone see a slight flaw in this? Anyone suspect a bit of coercion will be needed? ..... oooooo.... but wait, you get to lose the job security and pension.
And what happens to the sacked managers? Is it that anyone the co-op decides is a muppet just has to go? No tribunal? No argument - just leave quietly? Of course those involved in social care blame the managers, not one of them blames lack of funding or other services, nobody despairs at the politics, or the LA (would the voted in LA still have the over arching say re how budgets are spent?) - yeah, pure sarcasm. To echo another respected posters words - If you vote conservative I'm going to kill you!
